Department of Transportation, Transportation Administrative Service Center (TASC), Acquisition Services, SVC-180, 400 7th Street SW, Room 5106, Washington, DC 20590

D -- VALUED ADDED NICHE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SOL NA DUE 113099 POC Terri Tornell, 202-366-1809 The Transportation Administrative Service Center (TASC), an organization within the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), is seeking sources whose primary experience is in one of the five (5) following functional areas, or an umbrella support area for the operational maintenance of developed and deployed systems resulting from these five areas: 1. Business Intelligence Services -- Data warehousing/data mining solutions development and technical support such as developing strategies, architectures, and procedures for identifying and utilizing business intelligence technologies such as data warehousing and data mining techniques within and across organizations; conducting research and evaluations of utilizing business intelligence, data warehousing, and data mining products for specific applications; developing and implementing effective integration of business intelligence technologies and solutions, such as data warehousing and data mining capabilities with other IT applications; designing and integrating new business intelligence technologies and solutions into legacy systems environments; and converting data from legacy systems for use in business intelligence technology environments. 2. E-commerce Services -- Front end IT ordering processes development and technical support for web-driven solutions such as browser access to information through prebuilt applications against a wide variety of back-end databases and systems; address complex technical and process issues with custom and prebuilt applications, using flexible and/or modular type applications; providing a comprehensive range and array of electronic commerce applications solutions on a customer-by-customer basis, business-to-consumer, or business-to-business solutions; directories middleware as data links between systems for messaging, directory services and critical workflow integration across databases, mainframes and ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems, including schemas (such as XML) to work with different back-end databases; integrating legacy and new customer data-generation requirements and applications, where transactions occur quickly and the whole process can be accomplished online supporting disparate commerce platforms; transitioning to a browser-like interface with single sign-on and from EDI transactions to Internet transports; evaluation and improvement of Web-site performance and online commerce integration, such as access by individual entities or simultaneously access multiple business partners across a variety of public and private transports and application types, including parameters such as end-user response-time measurements to determine where problems may exist on the Internet; and third-party technology and networking infrastructure supporting electronic commerce applications in modular fashion on commerce platforms; 3. Email/Messaging Services -- Platform and applications development for services delivery and technical support such as a full range of x.500 and x.509 services and support; instant messaging capabilities for system alerts and private list interactive session; organizational messaging system effectiveness; standards-based, platform-independent directory services to act as a joining point for disparate messaging systems and applications; central hosting services for user mail files, including message storage and retrieval administration, backup, and maintenance; virus protection services for incoming and outgoing messages; anti-spam services to protect mail users from unsolicited bulk messaging; Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate generation and administration services for securing messaging and other applications, including trusted third-party digital certificates and public-private key pairs capabilities; cryptographic system services and support; message traffic load analysis and measurement services; email and messaging capabilities, related services and support including but not limited to technology implementations such as Secure Sockets Layer, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), S-HTTP, HyperText Markup Language, dynamic HTML, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Java, JavaScript, HotJava, ActiveX control, and XML; services and support for FDDI, frame relay, Ethernet, shared Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and switched Ethernet, and other connectivity and transmission implementations; log files, web servers, proxy servers and other API support devices services and support; and, storage and archival services for email and electronic commerce documents. 4. Enterprise Resources Processes Services -- Business management systems integration development and technical support such as the complete gamut of ERP business activities within any business enterprise; technology aspects like client/server distributed architecture, RDBMS, object oriented programming, major architectural transitions, backward compatibility, etc.; addressing issues such as proprietary architectures and back-end integration, functionality, modularity to mix and match applications, performance, scalability and portability seamless integration to provide visibility and consistency across the enterprise; centralized or de-centralized functionality with complete flexibility to consolidate corporate information; tools for cost-effective project management, project planning and project control; extensive information drill down capabilities for management analysis; concurrent Business Process Re-engineering and ERP implementation to shorten the total implementation time frame; business improvement verses technical improvement trade-off analysis and alternatives; alternative strategies for integration with other systems; customizations, including focus on one-to-one personalization, as well as mass customization; and the development of highly differentiated applications; support for customizable workflow automation, content-management and tracking capabilities; adding intelligence to systems and harmonized integration; integration with electronic commerce business processes, capabilities and systems on the Web; marketing process automation, campaign management and Internet marketing; assessment of productivity gains from the Internet; scalability, load-balancing and modular architecture; CRM (customer resource management) and business workflow processes and interactions, including analytical CRM, CRM solutions and key performance indicators (KPIs) support. 5. Remote Maintenance Monitoring Services -- Remote systems and sensors monitoring, data collection and technical support such as remote systems monitoring, measurement, control and data gathering technologies and their implementations; a range of supervisory control and data acquisition systems; a range of field data gathering and/or control units capabilities; diverse range of instruments and sensors, including analogue, digital and pulse data sensing and monitoring solutions; remote maintenance monitoring subsystems (indoor/outdoor[weather-tight] on-site and remote controlled); centralized data acquisition, scanning/screening and detection functions; data manipulation, data transfer, backlog and database backfill, and storage capabilities; data analysis and trending; graphical layout and data displays; automatic or manually initiated alarms systems; diverse monitoring transmission/communication technologies, including support for radio, PSTN, landline, microwave, satellite, X.25; programmable logic controller units; remote telemetry units (including ruggedised) with real time operating system and specialized modules availability, such as GPS time stamp; deployable tracking/signaling devices and their monitoring systems; traffic, weather and other industrial sensor and monitoring solutions, their communications and data/information and computer technology solutions. TASC anticpates award of multiple, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts for each functional area and the umbrella support area. Sources interested in a functional area of this requirement or the umbrella support area should provide a description of previous experience performing contracts with similar services for that area that cumulatively total at least $3M over the past three years. The description of previous experience must include for each contract the contract number, dollar value, customer, the name and telephone number of the customer point of contact, and a summary level description of the work performed. From the contracts listed, choose a maximum of three (3) to provide a more detailed description of the work performed in order to further illustrate your capability in this area. The entire submission for an area shall not exceed three (3) pages. Note the description of work performed should relate only to the work actually performed by the submitting party (i.e., for a $2M subcontract under a $10M contract, provide the information relating only the work under the subcontract versus the entire contract). This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only, is not a notice of a solicitation, and does not constitute a Government agreement to contract. Sources must indicate whether they are a small or 8(a) business under SIC code 7379. The Government does not intend to pay for information furnished in response hereto. Responses (an original and one (1) copy) are required by 5:00 p.m on November 30, 1999 to the attention of Terri Tornell, U.S. Department of Transportation/TASC, 400 7th Street, S.W., Room 5106, Washington, DC 20590. Posted 11/17/99 (W-SN401334). (0321)

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