National Labor Relations Board, Procurement and Facilities Branch, 1099 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20570

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, INCLUDING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SOL 00-IT-SBA-0001 POC Linda Blake, 202-273-4212/Contracting Officer Paula Roy, 202-273-4210 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has a requirement for Information Technology Infrastructure and En-User Support Services. These services will be in two categories, Operational and Optional. The Operational services refer to those activities that are mandatory, day-to-day functions required to maintain the technical environment and user satisfaction. The Optional requirements refer to true requirements that are similar services, but represent initiatives that have not yet been definitized, and may require travel, the acquisition of hardware and software, and necessitate additional staffing. The Optional requirements will be executed through the process of negotiated task orders. The NLRB anticipates this acquisition to be for a base period of one year, with four one year option periods. It has been set aside for Small Disadvantaged Business (8(a)), under the Standard Industry Classification Code (SIC) of 7373. This is a competitive acquistion and will be conducted with those firms in the transitional phase of the 8(a) program. It will be conducted following the streamlined acquisition process developed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, entitled Reengineered Mission Acquisition Process or ReMAP. This process will provide significant benefits to the vendor community and the Agency. The general approach of the ReMAP process consists of forming a project team, publishing a Project Agreement agreed to by management, requesting limited proposals or capability statements, informing offerors early whether it is likely that they will receive an award, releasing a Statement of Need (SON) based upon responses to the Project Agreement, evaluating proposals to the SON provided orally or in writing, and awarding a contract. The Project Agreement will be made available on the Agency's Web Site at http://www.nlrb.gov/proc/it/ities on or about May 10, 1999. In accordance with this process, the Project Agreement will provide a high level description of the overall objective and goals of the project,milestones, budget, and resources, and will include applicable evaluation criteria. Respondents are requested to submit limited technical proposals within initial cost estimates. Following receipt of these submissions, the project team identifies those firms that appear to have the best chance of receiving an award based upon the evaluation criteria. Other firms are notified of the results and are informed that withdrawing from further participation may be in their best interests. This withdrawal is voluntary. Therefore, no competitive range is determined, and each offeror makes the decision on whether to proceed further and respond to the SON. Open dialog with those firms remaining is allowed, and based upon any dialog and the initial submissions, the project team develops a SON. The SON, usually more detailed than the Project Agreement, allows offerors to propose the best solution. The SON provides any evaluation criteria to be used to make final selection, and offerors are requested to respond with more detailed pricing and any further technical information in a proposal. Written, oral, or a combination may be used. Award may be made without discussions. Interested parties must respond to the Project Agreement in order to be considered for award of any resulting contract. Questions pertaining to the Project Agreement are requested to be submitted electronically to the following electronic mail address, projectteam@nlrb.gov. All questions and answers will be published and made available on the NLRB's Web Site. Posted 05/10/99 (W-SN329607). (0130)

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