SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Single Family Acquired Asset Management System - RFI
- Notice Date
- 10/28/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, OCPO, Office of Support Operations, Office of Support Operations, NO, 451 7th Street S.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20410
- Solicitation Number
- DU100I-16-RFISAMS
- Archive Date
- 11/24/2015
- Point of Contact
- Sally A. Aultman, Phone: 2024024282
- E-Mail Address
-
sally.a.aultman@hud.gov
(sally.a.aultman@hud.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SAMS RFI REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) DU100I-16-RFISAMS REQUESTING SOURCES SOUGHT AND CAPABILITY STATEMENTS THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. This is not a request for offers, quotes or proposals. This notice does not represent a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or award a contract. This is a market research tool only to determine the capability of potential sources. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is contemplating establishing a contract under NAICS Code 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services and the Small Business Standard is $27.5 million, PSC Code 7030 Information Technology Software for Single Family Acquired Asset Management System (SAMS/A80S) to support Operations & Maintenance and possible Development, Modernization and Enhancement on an IBM based environment and is issuing this Request For Information (RFI) in order to solicit responses from capable sources and capability statements to ensure sufficient competition exists to meet the government's requirements. This is a firm fixed price contract. Teaming arrangements and joint ventures will be considered for any subsequent procurement based on the Government's market research, provided that (state any conditions under which teaming arrangements and joint ventures will be considered (e.g. The prime contract is awarded to an applicable small business and that small businesses provide fifty percent or more of the support)). BACKGROUND This effort is to identify companies that can best support the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of the Single Family Acquired Asset Management System (SAMS/A80S). A80S is a large scale legacy base system running on an IBM mainframe (i.e., 2098-T02). The system was created by in 1994-1995 using a Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool known as "INCASE". Since that software is still used to maintain and support SAMS/A80S, the fundamental requirement of this effort is the ability to obtain and effectively utilize that proprietary software. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORK SAMS is a mission critical system that is one of the Department's core financial systems. SAMS tracks and reports on HUD homes for sale, and processes all financial transactions related to their repair, lease, listing, and sale, including payments for contractor services, taxes and Homeowner Association and condominium fees. SAMS tracks, reports and accounts for homes in HUD's custody. SAMS is integral to managing the portfolio of HUD homes, acquired at the rate of 50,000 to 100,000 properties per year; accounting for obligations, disbursements and collections resulting from their maintenance and sale; monitoring contractor performance; limiting mission programs to eligible participants; and providing management information needed for program oversight and compliance with Congressional, auditor and other requests. The hardware and software for SAMS runs in a DB2 environment on HUD's production International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) mainframe. Physical access is secured at the computer operations center. In addition to DB2 access controls, the system is secured through HUD's standard third-party security package for IBM-based systems, CA TOPSECRET. SAMS' on-line and batch code is created by INCASE which is owned, maintained and modified by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, LLC. INCASE produces COBOL programs to support all functions of SAMS'. Mainframe reports are written in NOMAD or COBOL. SAMS interfaces with Treasury and Lockbox banks, as well as other Single Family Mortgage Insurance systems (e.g. Insurance-in-Force, Claims and Notes). System extracts are provided to contractors via the Asset Disposition and Management System (ADAMS/P260) to conduct management and marketing (M&M) on HUD homes (through them, to the real estate industry's Multiple Listing Services). SAMS also uses Microsoft's SharePoint for the distribution of reports. Receives Data From Sends Data To HUD Geocoding Service Center/A15 HUD Geocoding Service Center/A15 HUD Single Family Insurance System (SFIS)/A43 HUD Single Family Insurance System (SFIS)/A43 HUD Single Family Claims Subsystem/A43C HUD Single Family Claims Subsystem/A43C Data Warehouse/D64A Currently, SAMS interfaces with the following Federal systems: a. Provide O&M Support examples data fixes, adhoc queries, review and fixing job failures b. Provide software modification services for SAMS c. Provide Development Modernization and Enhancement Support Knowledge of using case tool INCASE. The system is maintained in a case tool environment using INCASE. Strong working knowledge of the following: 1. DB2 in an IBM mainframe environment. 2. MVS/zOS 3. COBOL 4. NOMAD 4. SAS 5 Project Management skills 4. Accounting practices. CONTEMPLATED REPORT REQUIREMENTS Current reports are created by COBOL programs, NOMAD programs, Statistical Analysis System/SAS program and can database queries. There are currently 450 reports in the A80S/SAMS. Reports created are at the summary level, the detail level and status level. These reports are used at all levels from operational teams to high level executive review. CONTEMPLATED PLACE OF PERFORMANCE The work is done offsite at the contractor work site. RESPONSE REQUESTED Small Businesses are encouraged to respond. This synopsis is a market research tool being used to determine the availability and capability of potential sources prior to determining the method of acquisition and whether the government will proceed with this acquisition. The Government will not pay for any information solicited. If a contract is ultimately pursued, responses to this synopsis will be used to aid in determining whether the acquisition is set-aside for small business or in establishing small business subcontracting goals. All qualified firms are encouraged to respond. The capability statement shall address, at a minimum, the following for the past three years: 1. Name and address of company and or companies (if there is a teaming arrangement or joint venture); 2. Technical expertise relevant to the requirement; 3. Technical approach relevant of the requirement (1 to 2 paragraphs); 4. Management approach relevant to the requirement (1 to 2 paragraph); 5. Corporate experience relevant to the requirement (1 to 2 paragraph); 6. Indicate if you are a small business or any other socio-economic categories that apply to your firm under the designated NAICS code; 7. Relevant past performance. Your capability statement needs to include a list of three customers (Government/non-Government) within the past three (3) years highlighting similar work in nature, scope, complexity, and difficulty and a brief description of the scope of work. Your submission for relevant past performance must include for each customer: • Contract name; • Contracting Agency or Department, POC and contact information; • Yearly contract value (in $); • Whether your firm was the prime or a subcontractor; • Period of performance; • Description of work and how it relates to the requirements. Interested firms responding to this market survey must provide a capability statement demonstrating their experience, skills and capability to fulfill the Governments requirements for the above. The capability statement shall be in sufficient enough detail, but not exceed 10 pages TOTAL, so that the Government can determine the experience and capability of your firm to provide the requirements above. Please specify one primary and one alternate Point of Contact (POC) within your firm, including telephone numbers and email addresses in case clarifications of your submission are needed. Only electronic copies of capability statements will be accepted and should be emailed to: sally.a.aultman@hud.gov. The e-mail shall contain the following subject line: Response to Sources Sought Notice - SAMS Requirement. The Government may use the responses received to determine whether to proceed with the acquisition as a set-aside, or in the absence of a least two small business responses to this notice, may determine to proceed with a full and open competition. This decision and whether to proceed with the acquisition is at the sole discretion of the Government. All interested contractors should submit their capability statements by 1 p.m. on 9 Nov 2015. Late responses will not be considered.
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