SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Standards and Specifications Subscription Services
- Notice Date
- 1/14/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- ACC-RSA - (SPS), ATTN: AMSAM-AC, Building 5303, Martin Road, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5280
- ZIP Code
- 35898-5280
- Solicitation Number
- W9124P15RA004
- Response Due
- 1/30/2015
- Archive Date
- 3/15/2015
- Point of Contact
- Justin M. Fortado, 256-842-7532
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-RSA - (SPS)
(justin.m.fortado.mil@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- ****ATTENTION****FORMAL COMMUNICATION RELATED TO THIS ACQUISITION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO: SSG Fortado, Justin. You may email your request to justin.m.fortado.mil@mail.mil. NO TELEPHONE REQUEST WILL BE ACCEPTED. The synopsis is as follows: General Requirements: The U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) seeks to enter into a contract consisting of a base year with 4 one year options in order to continue to provide industry standards and specifications subscription services. This effort will afford AMC the ability to continue an AMC Wide Standards/Specifications Information Solution in order to maintain existing efficiencies and cost savings. Current service is enterprise wide and made available via a single access portal. Objective: Provide AMC electronic access to search platform for standards and specifications publications, parts information and lists in order to facilitate AMC's mission in research, development, testing and lifecycle management, and other requirements as deemed appropriate by AMC. Objective should include current and superseded industry Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) listed below, but not exclusive to that list, and an index to current and superseded U.S. Military Standards and Specifications. The ability to provide access to documents from SDOs not on the list on an as needed basis must exist. Specifications: Primary deliverable is a search platform with full-text access to no less than 99% of the industry standards required by AMC. Such access is to be via internet and accessible at the desktop by qualified AMC personnel. Access for AMC personnel will be through a central portal within the AMC IT architecture.. On-line service must be available 24/7 with a system availability rate not lower than 98%. Access to the system to be authenticated under the direction of the Program Manager who will be a full-time AMC employee. AMC Program Manager responsible for Standards and Specifications information shall be granted administrator access sufficient to manage interface for AMC personnel. Ensure service delivery is compliant with section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 794d). End user requests for technical support shall be completed within 8 working hours of the request. All requests for technical support will come from the Program Manager. Prior to planned outages, AMC must be given 72 hours notice. Full online search capability is required in accordance with internationally accepted search fields. The ability to provide metadata for downloading to local systems as updates must exist. The contractor is responsible to report to the Program Manager all information assurance incidents within 2 hours of receipt of knowledge of the incident. The contractor shall operate within established legal parameters of intellectual license and copyright as directed in US Code Title 17. The contractor shall have the ability to cross reference U.S Military Standards and Specifications (MIL STDS/SPECS) with industry standards where industry standards have replaced U.S. Government MIL STDS/SPECS as the official military standard. Such cross referencing must be provided by the contractor to enable the end-user to track the history of a U.S. MIL STDS/SPEC in order for the end-user to view obsolete or rescinded U.S. MIL STDS/SPECS. Supply Chain Information: Life Cycle Management of U.S. Army military equipment requires the procurement of parts. The contractor shall provide parts and logistics data to include parts catalogs and lists with immediate electronic access to facilitate the timely repair and maintenance of equipment in order to maintain the OPTEMPO (Operational Tempo) of the U.S. Army. Deliverables: 24/7 full-text access to Standards and Specifications. The Contractor shall develop and maintain a log detailing what AMC activity accessed the service, details of the origin and requested item. Monthly, or at intervals as required by the Government, the contractor shall provide the log data to the AMC Program Manager. The Contractor produces for search and full-text retrieval, an index of all U.S. Government MIL STDS/SPECS and Industry standards and specifications held to be current by the Defense Automated Publishing Service (DAPS). The Contractor produces for search and full-text retrieval a current, comprehensive index of standards produced by Standards Developing Organizations (SDO's). The Contractor produces for search and retrieval a current, comprehensive database of logistical information to include items that are procured and stocked by the federal government and searchable by relevant means such as part number, FSC, NIIN. The Contractor produces for AMC a monthly financial report of all transactions between AMC and contractor in an Excel spreadsheet detailing who placed an order for a standard/specification; what was ordered; cost per order; and date of order. List of SDO's: Aerospace Industries Association American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics American National Standards Institute American Petroleum Institute Aeronautical Radio Incorporated American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers American Society of Mechanical Engineers American Society for Quality American Society for Testing and Material American Welding Society Boiler Plate Vessel Code Compressed Gas Association Military Specifications and Standards Insulated Cable Engineers Association International Electrotechnical Commission Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society International Organization for Standardization Mfrs Stdzn Society of the Valves & Fittings Industry National Aerospace Standards NATO Documents National Electrical Manufacturers Association National Fire Protection Association Parachute Industry Association Society for Automative Engineers Formerly GEIA (Government Electronics & Information Technology Association) Telecommunications Industry Association Underwriters Laboratories Period of Performance: Base plus 4 Option Years 2 April 2015 - 1 April 2016 2 April 2016 - 1 April 2017 2 April 2017 - 1 April 2018 2 April 2018 - 1 April 2019 2 April 2019 - 1 April 2020 ***ALL PROSPECTIVE OFFERORS MUST BE ACTIVELY REGISTERED IN THE SYSTEM FOR AWARD MANAGEMENT (SAM)***
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC-RSA - (SPS) ATTN: AMSAM-AC, Building 5303, Martin Road Redstone Arsenal AL
- Zip Code: 35898-5280
- Zip Code: 35898-5280
- Record
- SN03615964-W 20150116/150114234234-e4c9f75b3951873726a9e08d6f24c146 (fbodaily.com)
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