SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- NAVAIR AIRSpeed DMS Commercial Procurement
- Notice Date
- 3/2/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Pax River, Building 441 21983 Bundy Road Unit 7, Patuxent River, MD, 20670
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- N00421-05-R-0078
- Response Due
- 3/18/2005
- Archive Date
- 4/2/2005
- Description
- The NAVAIR AIRSpeed Program for the Naval Air Systems Command are seeking eligible small business firms capable of providing COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) Deployment Management System (DMS) software solutions. The NAVAIR AIRSpeed Program began in 2004 with the implementation of this initiative as a key part of NAVAIR's strategy for reducing the cost of doing business, improving productivity and increasing customer satisfaction. NAVAIR AIRSpeed will utilize Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to provide productivity improvement tools that will be deployed across the entire NAVAIR organization. NAVAIR AIRSpeed is envisioned as a key part of a cultural transformation that will help the workforce become more efficient and more productive, while facilitating the cost-wise decisions that will help us deliver Fleet aircraft ready for tasking at reduced cost. A major component of the NAVAIR AIRSpeed implementation will be a Deployment Management System (DMS). Based on a review of industry response to the Sources Sought Synopsis, the Government will decide an appropriate procurement strategy. This office anticipates award of the contract(s) for this requirement no later than 30 May 05. The appropriate NAICS code is 541519: FSC code 7030, with a standard of $21.0 million. THIS SOURCE SOUGHT SYNOPSIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. It is a market research tool being used to determine the adequacy of potential small business sources prior to determining the method of acquisition and issuance of a Request for Proposal. The Government is not obligated to and will not pay for any information received from potential sources as a result of this synopsis. The following are the NAVAIR AIRSpeed Program requirements for this commercial procurement to provide a DMS software solution that will enable holistic real-time tracking and management of at least 200 Black Belts, 1500 Green Belts and their associated thousands of projects with roll-up capability to any or all desired levels. Specifically, NAVAIR is concerned with the following task requirements of the proposed DMS software solution: (1) Management of Project Details (Ability to create new projects; Ability to manage/capture project summary information; Ability to associate projects with multiple client definable classification schemes; Ability to manage the workflow for phase gate authorizations, deliverable authorizations, and cost and benefit authorizations; Ability to manage the pipeline status (e.g. in scoping, scoped not active, active, cancelled, complete, suspended) of the project; Ability to capture/manage key CTQ/metric information; Ability to capture metric updates at each stage in project life-cycle; Ability to quickly and easily access tool templates and guidelines on how to apply the tool; Ability to associate resources with the project to create a project team; Ability to automatically maintain a history of the key project events e.g. the addition of a team member, the authorization of a gate review, the issue of a deliverable etc.; Ability to add other documents e.g. minutes, gate presentations associated with the project to the project repository). (2)Manage Project Plan (Ability to manage project work at the project deliverable level; Ability to set/reset the financial and schedule baselines for the project; Ability to view project deliverables in Gantt Chart or similar format; Ability to see a visual indicator of overall project progress; Ability to see a visual indicator of project progress at a milestone level, Ability to have overdue tasks automatically highlighted; Ability to view and update progress/status on 'my' tasks; Ability to drive milestone and overall progress automatically from completion of phase deliverables; Ability to export to Microsoft Project). (3) Manage Project Risks (Ability to create, modify and delete project risks and issues; Ability to allocate project risks/issues to team members; Ability to view risks/issues assigned to me to manage; Ability to define and track risk/issue minimization actions). (4) Quantify Costs/Benefits (Ability to define a hierarchy of cost/benefit categories; Ability to define actual/forecast capital and revenue project expenditure (project specific investments); Ability to establish a budget for project expenditure; Ability to define actual/forecast capital employed and profit related benefits (benefit claims); Ability to attach justification to support expenditure/benefit validation/approval; Ability to electronically validate and approve benefit claims). (5) Report on Project Progress (Ability to add status updates/project highlights to the project on a periodic basis; Ability to generate project gate review summary/project status report; Ability to view/filter and print the full project plan; Ability to report forecast vs. actual vs. budget costs/benefits at a project summary level (both for capital employed and profit related benefits); Ability to export project information to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word). (6) Manage Project Deliverables (Ability to capture/update project specific deliverables (including attaching external documents/files); Ability to issue and submit project deliverables for electronic validation and approval). (7) Collaborate with Other Team & Community Members (Ability to create journal entries which team members can use to quickly communicate project status and collaborate on project activities; Ability to create a repository for capturing, for example, FAQs, best practices, and other deployment specific reference material). (8) Manage Information Overload (Ability to see only the projects with which I am currently associated (my projects); Ability to see only the training requests which are relevant to me (my requests); Ability to be automatically notified on escalation of project traffic light status; Ability to be automatically notified on pending deliverable due dates; Ability to manage personal information and contact information). (9) Manage Project Progress (Ability to see a visual indicator of overall project progress; Ability to auto-escalate project 'traffic light status' - missed dates; Ability to have overdue tasks automatically highlighted). (10) Remote Coaching (Ability to view resources allocated to a project; Ability to define and track risk minimization actions; Ability to have instant access from anywhere to the latest project information; Ability to capture/date project specific deliverables; Ability to share documents with other on-line users; Ability to post best practice, frequently asked questions and useful tools). (11) Manage Project Progress (Ability to see a visual indicator of overall project progress; Ability to have overdue tasks automatically highlighted; Ability to automatically escalate and notify on past due deliverables). (12) Accelerate Benefit Delivery (Ability to be auto-notified by e-mail of waiting authorizations; Ability to view costs/benefits and deliverables assigned to me on-line; Ability to authorize costs/benefits and deliverables on-line). (13) Manage Project (Ability to create and modify multiple business methodologies; Ability to create and modify project deliverable templates and guidance notes; Ability to define organizational hierarchy of business units; Ability to define a hierarchy of projects and sub-projects; Ability to view critical performance measures (at any level); Ability to drill down through hierarchy and view project details). (14) Enforce Project Policies (Ability to define what data is mandatory for status changes; Ability to define which deliverables are mandatory at each gate; Ability to define which roles can authorize phase gates; Ability to define at which gates forecast costs/benefits required). (15) Manage Costs & Benefits (Ability to define what data is mandatory for status changes; Ability to define which roles can authorize phase gates; Ability to define at which gates forecast costs/benefits required). (16) Report on Project (Ability to print a full project report; Ability to filter and sort projects by business unit, pipeline status, methodology and process; Ability to report project performance at any level; Ability to report budget, forecast and actual benefits at any level). (17) People Management (Ability to capture/manage/import personal details; Ability to define catalog of training courses; Ability to view available training courses; Ability to capture/manage details of training received; Ability to define a competency/skill model; Ability to capture competency/skill assessments; Ability to define certification levels and requirements; Ability to update/view and report on individual certification levels; Ability to automatically build experience from assignments; Ability to assign, schedule and report on resource utilization). (18) Knowledge Management (Ability to create library of deliverables (template and guidelines); Ability to share documents with other on-line users; Ability to perform global searches on project meta-data and details; Ability to create and use project and non-project discussion groups). (19) Monitor Performance (Ability to create and display multiple graphical executive dashboard reports; Ability to generate real-time reporting on projected profit and capital employed benefits; Ability to generate real-time reports on belt certifications and project volumes by pipeline status; Ability to create ad-hoc, real time report groups of practitioner project history; Ability to create ad-hoc, real time report groups of project or personnel financial contributions; Ability to report real-time on budget, forecast and actual variances; Ability to report real-time analysis of resource utilization). The period of performance/delivery schedule will be based off of quoted delivery and installation date in term of number of days after contract. Technical support/maintenance shall consist of a base period of date of contract award through 30 September 2005. There will also be two option periods for technical support/maintenance from 1 October 2005 through 30 September 2006 and 1 October 2006 through 30 September 2007. It is requested that interested small businesses submit to the contracting office a brief capabilities statement package (no more than 15 pages in length, single spaced, 12 point font minimum) providing commercial product information and demonstrating product capabilities in response to the Government?s requirements listed above. This documentation must address, as a minimum, the following: (1) prior/current corporate experience performing efforts of similar size and scope within the last three years, including contract number, organization supported, indication of whether a prime or subcontractor, contract value, Government point of contact with current telephone number, a brief description of how the contract referenced relates to the technical services described herein; (2) company profile to include number of employees, annual revenue history, office location (s), DUNS number, CAGE code, TIN and a statement regarding current small business status; (3) Commercial software solution and capabilities including your commercial software license, etc... The capability statement package shall be sent via email at ann.clements@navy.mil and original mailed to contracts, Code 251332, Ann Clements, Building 441, NAVAIRSYSCOMHQ, 21983 Bundy Road, Unit 7, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1127 or by facsimile to 301-757-8959. Submissions must be received at the office site no later than 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 18 MARCH 2005. Questions or comments regarding this notice may be addressed to Ann Clements at 301-757-8953 or via email at ann.clements@navy.mil. Contract Specialist: Ann Clements Contracting Officer: Alfred W. Hensler, III Solicitation Number: N00421-05-R-0078
- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD
- Record
- SN00761256-W 20050304/050302212415 (fbodaily.com)
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