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D -- ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES CONTRACT SOL SSA-RFP-99-3535 DUE 062698 POC WAYNE MCDONALD, 410-966-1323 WEB: Download Solicitation when/if available, http://www.ssa.gov/oag. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, SSA/OAG, WAYNE.MCDONALD@ssa.gov. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is contemplating a full-and-open competitive acquisition for integrated programmatic and administrative/management information software support services. The title of the new acquisition is the Enterprise Technology Services Contract or ETSC. The proposed requirement is expected to be an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity type contract that will be priced on a time and material basis. The proposed contract is anticipated to cover a 7-year period (base term of 1 year plus six 1-year options to extend the term of the contract). The support services will cover all stages of the application software development life cycle, with a strong emphasis on requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, and support of the programmatic and administrative/ management information needs of the Agency. Independent verification and validation type activities will also be supported. Contractor support will cover five (5) major Technical Areas within which work will be issued under this contract. These Technical Areas are:(1) Application Design, Development and Maintenance; (2) Data Administration and Data Base Administration Support; (3) Software Engineering and Technology; (4) Emerging Technology; and (5) Software Engineering Management. The preceding five Technical Areas will define the Scope of Work for this contract. Work will be issued to the Contractor through individual Work Orders that will precisely define the scope, deliverables and schedule for each assignment at the time that each Work Order is issued. The solicitation will, to the maximum extent practicable, include only those clauses and provisions applicable to the acquisition of commercial items. The services to be acquired are considered to have met the definition of commercial items at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 2.101. Therefore, the acquisition of the ETSC will be subject to the policies of FAR Part 12 as well as Part 15. When a policy in another part of theFAR is inconsistent with a policy in Part 12, Part 12 shall take precedence for the acquisition of commercial items. A draft solicitation for this requirement was previously announced in the February 25, 1998 edition of the Commerce Business Daily and was made available to all interested parties on February 27, 1998. The final version of the solicitation will be issued on or about May 26, 1998 with proposals due approximately 30 calendar days thereafter. Any interested party may obtain the final solicitation number in one of many electronic forms by download at URL http://www.ssa.gov/oag/acq/toc.htm. Other electronic forms may be requested from Mr. Wayne McDonald, Contracting Officer at the e-mail address of Wayne.McDonald@ssa.gov or by facsimile at telephone number (410) 966-9310. To assist all prospective offerors in preparing proposal responses to the solicitation, the SSA has assembled pertinent material containing background information directly related to the SSA software development environment. Although this material is referenced in this final solicitation, it is not, because of its voluminous nature, included in the final solicitation document. This material has been assembled as a "Technical Reference Library" and is also available as a separate file on the OAG Internet Home Page. (0118)

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