SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Lead IT Architect Consulting Services for TM-NG
- Notice Date
- 6/28/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of Procurement, P. O. Box 1450 - Mail Stop 6, 600 Dulany Street, MDE, 7th Floor, Alexandria, Virginia, 22313-1450
- ZIP Code
- 22313-1450
- Solicitation Number
- DOC52PAPT1100034
- Archive Date
- 7/27/2011
- Point of Contact
- Heather M. Bakos, Phone: 5712725361
- E-Mail Address
-
heather.bakos@uspto.gov
(heather.bakos@uspto.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The purpose of this Special Notice is to announce a sole-source award for Lead IT Architect Services for support of the Trademarks-Next Generation project. ESTIMATED DOLLAR AWARD AMOUNT: $175,000 ESTIMATED CONTRACT AWARD DATE: June 29, 2011 METHOD OF SOLICITATION: Request for Quote DESCRIPTION: The Lead Consulting Architect for the Project shall provide mentoring and consulting services for a business-based analysis of the IT architecture to enable the development of a next-generation Trademark electronic processing capability as follows: a. Assess overall business and IT requirements; b. Review as-is business and IT architecture documentation; c. Assess IT plans and work in progress; d. Review target business and IT architecture views and options; and e. Examine trademark transformation plans from a business, data, application and technical architecture perspective with a focus on viability, risk, achieving early ROI and alignment with the current state of the practice and tools The Lead Consulting Architect shall perform the following evaluation activities: a. Interview USPTO customers, contractors, System Development Leads (SDLs) and other USPTO staff as necessary to gather system related issues, interdependencies, user requirements, desired software architecture, and envisioned software coding standard; b. Evaluate best industry and government practices and recommend the practices that can be effectively implemented at the USPTO; c. Evaluate interdependent AISs and provide recommendations on how the systems can be decoupled; d. Participate in reviews with steering committees and senior management; and e. Review existing strategy, plans, work in progress, target options and transformation plans to date. The Lead Consulting Architect shall: a. Use advanced technical knowledge and communications skills to facilitate complex situations; b. Serve as an advisor for and provide direction with indirect reporting relationships; and c. Interact day-to-day with technologists, management, project management, contract developers, government developers, and other architects. d. Working with the USPTO technologists and management, define and document the current and future state architecture of the Trademark systems and propose a migration strategy from the current state to the future state. PROPOSED CONTRACTOR: Tactical Strategy Group, Inc. JUSTIFICATION FOR NON-COMPETITION: The Patent and Trademark Acquisition Guidelines (PTAG) specifically exempts USPTO from the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA - 41 USC 253). The supplies or services needed by the agency are available from only one responsible source and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements. William Ulrich of the Tactical Strategy Group, Inc. is sought for Subject Matter Expert services pertaining to the Trademarks-Next Generation (TM-NG). Mr. Ulrich possesses a unique set of qualifications and is the only individual that can continue to provide direction and guidance to the TM NG Business and IT Architecture teams in the development of the TM NG current and future state value streams, capability mapping and IT solutions. Mr. Ulrich has the unique ability and expertise to deconstruct business architectures and IT architectures to deliver the cross-functional, cross disciplinary visibility required to enable complex business/IT transformations. Additionally, Mr. Ulrich possesses the unique ability to determine the viability of a given business/IT transformation strategy from a fully independent perspective. Based on this unique ability and experience, the USPTO contracted with TSG for Mr. Ulrich to prepare and deliver an assessment of the proposed TM NG Program. The resulting report, Trademark Business / IT Transformation Strategy Assessment Report, was submitted on December 16, 2010. There are numerous recommendations in the report that the TM NG Program has accepted and is currently implementing. One of the most significant findings in the report is that TM does not have a Business Architecture (BA). Without a Business Architecture to describe the current and future state of the TM business capability needs, the TM NG Program will not be able to plan and deliver business-driven IT solutions. The report recommendation based on the findings is to create a BA for TM and base the TM NG IT Architecture on the BA. USPTO, OCIO and TM senior leadership accepted this recommendation. The TM organization did not have the in-house expertise or capability to develop a Business Architecture (BA). The decision was made to develop the internal capability and expertise to produce and maintain the TM BA. Mr. Ulrich is uniquely qualified to guide this BA team through the process of creating the TM BA and has done so since February 2011. With Mr. Ulrich's expertise and guidance, the TM BA team has made substantial progress in defining and mapping the TM business value streams and business capabilities of the current state and are identifying capability needs that will form the basis of the future state BA. Mr. Ulrich's unique expertise and experience with the TM BA effort and team is required in order to complete the current state BA and develop the future state BA. After the TM BA work is completed, the TM NG Program will use the unique qualifications of Mr. Ulrich to help translate the TM BA into the TM NG IT Architecture and solutions that will meet the TM business needs in a manner consistent with other accepted recommendations from the Trademark Business / IT Transformation Strategy Assessment Report.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: United States Patent & Trademark Office, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314, United States
- Zip Code: 22314
- Zip Code: 22314
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