SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- NLM Internet Monitoring Services
- Notice Date
- 2/27/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 517210
— Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 105, Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20894
- Solicitation Number
- NIHLM2017953
- Archive Date
- 3/21/2017
- Point of Contact
- April Merriwether, Phone: 3018276424
- E-Mail Address
-
merriwetheran@mail.nih.gov
(merriwetheran@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), is conducting a market survey to determine the availability and technical capability of qualified small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses and/or HUBZone small businesses capable of the following requirement. THIS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS and the Government is not committed to award a contract pursuant to this announcement. The information from this market research is for planning purposes only and will assist the Government in planning its acquisition strategy. This is strictly market research and the Government will not pay for any costs incurred in the preparation of information for responding to this market survey. Any proprietary information should be clearly identified as such. The Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS) is seeking a comprehensive and dynamic National Library of Medicine (NLM) web monitoring process. The immediate requirement includes: (a) taking measurements of customer perception and use of NLM web sites, as well as (b) monitoring the quality and availability of Internet connections by which users access NLM information services. The following is a description of the work: The contractor shall provide NLM with the following services, which provides comprehensive performance data on NLM online business and applications - all from the end-user's perspective. The following are the measurement requirements: • Emulate an Internet browser to generate and measure scripted transactions from locations on the vendor's global network. Measurements are from a combination of at least 16 domestic and international cities, and one Internet provider backbone from each city. Frequency is at least four per hour. Number of NLM web sites to monitor: Initial Quantity = 15 sites Base year = 5-25 sites Option years 1 thru 4 = 0-25 sites • Provide hardware appliances that measure application performance from NLM-specified private networks (e.g. regional libraries on Internet2). These appliances hardware and software must be supported by the vendor. The private agents must use a real embedded Internet Explorer browser with caching which simulates a real word scenario of a user returning to the monitored site. Number of appliances: Initial Quantity = 10 appliances Base year = 5-15 appliances Option years 1 thru 4 = 0-20 appliances; Number of measurements per agent = up to 10 measurements per agent @ 15 minute frequency • A Data-feed Service. This provides the capability to export the collected performance data from the provider's repository to an NLM server which can then analyze and display the information into NLM developed custom views. • The contractor shall provide Technical Support services for the above specified monitoring services at the level of one incident per month. • The vendor will provide NLM with two accounts for managing the above services via the web. These accounts will be used to manage two groupings of NLM-managed web sites. NLM can elect to exercise additional quantities of these items during the base and option years of the contract, from the ranges as specified. Interested firms responding to this market survey must provide a capability statement demonstrating their experience, skills and capability to fulfill the Government's requirements. The capability statement shall be in sufficient detail, but not to exceed 10 pages, so that the Government can determine the experience and capability of your firm. Responses to this announcement should include: (1) name and Address of the Organization, (2) socio-economic status type, (3) point of contact with name, title, phone, fax, and e-mail, (4) DUNS number, (5) Current North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes, (6) contractor capability statement addressing the requirements, (7) list of organizations to whom similar types of services have been previously provided to include contract number, dollar value, and name and phone number of contracting officer. Please Note: All businesses must be registered within the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov). Interested sources are required to send all capability statements to April Merriwether, Contract Specialist, by email (faxed will not be accepted) to merriwetheran@mail.nih.gov no later than Monday, March 06, 2017 at 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/OAM/NIHLM2017953/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Library of Medicine, Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, United States
- Zip Code: 20894
- Zip Code: 20894
- Record
- SN04415628-W 20170301/170227234551-3c6506f2dbe75497a10877f01871e173 (fbodaily.com)
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