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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF JUNE 21, 2018 FBO #6054
DOCUMENT

R -- ePerformance 5.0 - Attachment

Notice Date

6/19/2018
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

541611 — Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Program Contracting Activity Central;6150 Oak Tree Blvd, Suite 300;Independence OH 44131
 

ZIP Code

44131
 

Solicitation Number

36C77618Q9170
 

Response Due

6/26/2018
 

Archive Date

9/24/2018
 

Point of Contact

Yolanda M. Ray
 

E-Mail Address

ak
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

Notice of Intent to Award under Limited Sources Solicitation Number: 36C77618Q9165 This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals IAW FAR 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(B) Limiting Sources. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contract action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Department of Veteran Affairs, Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) intends to solicit and negotiate directly with Northrop Grumman 15010 Conference Center Drive, Chantilly VA 20151 for the procurement of services in support of the implementation of the Electronic Employee Performance Appraisal (ePM) application, Project Management and Support Services. DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT: The purpose of this acquisition is for award of a Federal Supply Schedule contract Task Order to Northrop Grumman (NG) on GSA Schedule GS-35F-4506G. Northrop Grumman will provide project management, technical design and configuration of five VA specific performance plans and workflows, end user documentation, customized training to VA s customer base as well as system interface compliance and interoperability and support services for the target population of 75,000 VA employees. The contractor shall also provide the Electronic Employee Performance Management (EEPM) application, licenses and support for approximately 75,000 VA employees. The requested web-based, cloud hosted EEPM solution shall automate the entire performance management lifecycle from plan creation through upload to the Electronic Official Personnel File (eOPF) in compliance with VA, VHA and OPM performance management standards for the following performance appraisal forms: Proficiency Report Forms (VA Forms 10-2623 and 10-2623a), SES Performance Form (VA Form 3482), ECF Performance Form (VA Form 3482e), Title 5 and Hybrid Title 38 Performance Form (VA Form 0750). The EEPM solution shall demonstrate performance management efficiencies and cost savings through the automation of existing manual performance management processes. Human Capital Systems and Services (HCSS) requests the EEPM system meet the following functional requirements: Creation of performance plans to include the ability to clone from a previous plan, from another employee plan and from a template for a specific occupation code (functional/specialty/assignment/title) and grade. Also, the ability for rater and proxy roles to create multiple plans for selected assigned employees. Allow pre-built plan templates for specific occupations that contain vetted strategic goal(s) and the linkage between department manager employee, reporting relationships, and technical performance measures across plan types. Allow for changes to performance plans during performance cycle and rollback inadvertent plan changes. Workflow to handle reconsideration requests for the performance appraisal forms to include the uploading of reconsideration documentation as an attachment. This would include ability to retrieve and/or modify a plan after it has been finalized and transmitted to eOPF. Updated plan would then be re-processed for transmission to eOPF. The ability to have Human Resources (HR) end user Administrators pull back performance plans after they have been completed and transmitted to eOPF to re-route and revise as needed before transmitting back to eOPF. Creation and completion of progress reviews, special ratings, summary ratings, and end of year performance ratings to include the ability to sign electronically using PIV card. Also, the ability to add more than one progress review on additional information sections of the forms. Automation of performance program reminders via email to include new notices to entities outside of the managerial chain e.g. unions and union officials. Workflow notifications shall conform to union requirements regarding performance plan issuance and modifications during the performance year. Management and dissemination of annual department-wide goals and elements to all VA employees and granular dissection based on employee type. The ability to push these items from higher offices down to subordinate offices and require them on all new active current plan year performance plans. Data collection and reporting to include metrics that track performance against specific competencies, standards, goals and major initiatives. The ability to view drill down report data by POID, Station, VISN and Program Office. An extractable data feed that can be used for complex data mining efforts for performance analysis, reporting and dashboards. Transfer of final ratings and supporting data elements to HCSS, through a data view. Transfer of completed performance appraisal forms to include supporting documentation to the eOPF for all performance plans and the ability to transmit special and summary ratings outside of the normal performance cycle. The ability to upload documentation to be included with the performance appraisal forms. The ability to append a completed summary rating to a final rating so they can be incorporated into a single document and uploaded to the eOPF. Integration with HCSS s portal to support single sign-on with PIV authentication. Integration with VA HRSmart data elements through a data view, as defined and coordinated with HCSS. Data elements will define employee, rater, organization, servicing HR station and reporting relationships for the EPPM solution. Creation of real-time reports to provide HR staff and managers a quick overview of employee performance plan status to meet established performance timelines and reporting requirements. Performance standards library to support the administration, management and location of standards in local, regional and/or national libraries. Fine grained permissions to restrict access based on role: employee, rater, HR Technical Reviewer, HR administrator, library administrator, Report view, and super (system) administrator. Proxy as another employee to perform operations other than electronic signatures on their behalf. User guides, job aides, troubleshooting guides and train-the-trainer material. Conducts training in various modalities (i.e., face to face, recorded and virtual) to support user base. Provide system documentation technical manuals (to include business rules and data dictionary), test plans, release notes, delta documents, etc. Ability to mass import old performance records from a flat file. Ensure web interface is compliant with federal accessibility standards (i.e. Section 508 compliant). Hosted in a FEDRAMP certified cloud environment. All performance data shall be exported and provided to the HCSS office at the conclusion of the contract. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Point of contact for this notice is Yolanda M. Ray, who can be reached by email at: yolanda.ray@va.gov. Contracting Office Address: Department of Veteran Affairs Program Contracting Activity Central 6150 Oak Tree Blvd., Suite 300 Independence, Ohio 44131
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/ISC/OISC/36C77618Q9170/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: 36C77618Q9170 36C77618Q9170.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=4407169&FileName=36C77618Q9170-000.docx)

Link: https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=4407169&FileName=36C77618Q9170-000.docx

 

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Record

SN04959599-W 20180621/180619230529-77a415229c4f0e4bbe418c2bd28b6170 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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