AWARD
D -- Assessment & Authorization (A&A) Services IDIQ Contract
- Notice Date
- 4/23/2012
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1640
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1640
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-12-RP-0005
- Point of Contact
- Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329, Chon S. Son, Phone: 301-975-8567
- E-Mail Address
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keith.bubar@nist.gov, chon.son@nist.gov
(keith.bubar@nist.gov, chon.son@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
- Award Number
- SB1341-12-CQ-0008
- Award Date
- 4/19/2012
- Awardee
- Information Technology Coalition, Inc.
- Award Amount
- Not to Exceed $9,000,000
- Description
- The purpose of this notice is to notify the public that Request for Proposal (RFP) No. SB1341-12-RP-0005 has been awarded. Contract No. SB1341-12-CQ-0008 has been awarded to Information Technology Coalition, Inc. (IT Coalition) in accordance with the evaluation factors for award stated in section M of RFP No. SB1341-12-RP-0005. This contract is an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a maximum cumulative amount of all task orders of $9,000,000.00. The period of performance is for a base period of one year, and four option periods of one year each. The awardee, IT Coalition Inc. is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business under the small business size standard of $25 million associated with NAICS code 541519. The first task order under this IDIQ contract was awarded to IT Coalition Inc. as a labor hour type task order for a total ceiling price of $905,490.00. The Performance Work Statement for this task order was included as part of the RFP SB1341-12-RP-0005, and the proposals were evaluated in accordance with Section M of RFP No. SB1341-12-RP-0005. The first task order was competed and awarded as a labor hour type task order because it is not possible at the time of placing the order to accurately estimate the extent or duration of the work or to anticipate costs with any reasonable degree of certainty. Changes to certain elements of the requirement and priority occur in every Assessment & Authorization (A&A) project - particularly in large, complex systems where significant changes occur often that need to be assessed quickly, often prior to deployment of the system. Stakeholders change, government regulations and policies change, organizations change - and security assessment projects must change with them and adapt as quickly as possible or insecure technology implementations may put NIST at risk. As NIST has recently transitioned its A&A Program to comply with the new Federal Risk Management Framework (RMF), labor hour contracts/orders will be even more essential since the RMF emphasizes the need for more real-time assessments to meet the rapid nature of IT implementation and service advances. This new RMF process requires the continued flexibility of a labor hour type contract. Specifically, decisions have yet to be made by stakeholders and subject matter experts as to which technology (or combination of technologies) will be implemented, and therefore the security assessment team must rapidly identify resources to adequately assess the security of those new technologies once decisions are made. Decisions on how those technologies should be assessed, as well as the time it takes to perform the appropriate assessments have different associated costs in the required skill levels and availability of necessary resources. Many of these decisions cannot be made until the project is already underway and technologies are able to be evaluated and tested by the project team. Having the ability to quickly reprioritize and assess new technologies and changes to existing technologies and incorporate them into the existing contract/order structure without the need for costly delays to repeatedly modify the contract/order are essential to the continued success of NIST's new RMF process. END OF TEXT.
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