SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Consulting Services for Microsoft and other commercially-available IT for the IRS Information Technology (IT) infrastructure.
- Notice Date
- 5/10/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), National Office Procurement (OS:A:P), 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 500, Oxon Hill, Maryland, 20745
- ZIP Code
- 20745
- Solicitation Number
- TIRNO-12-R-00027
- Point of Contact
- Robin L Johnson, Phone: 202-283-1111
- E-Mail Address
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Robin.Johnson2@irs.gov
(Robin.Johnson2@irs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Competitive 8(a)
- Description
- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to issue a single Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) competitive 8(a) contract. The contract will be prepared and awarded in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 15 and 19. The contract is anticipated to be an IDIQ contract allowing for firmed fixed priced and labor hour type orders. The term of the IDIQ shall be one base year including four one-year option periods: (The Period of Performance dates may change based on the actual award date of this IDIQ which will include a total of one base year and four one year option periods). The anticipated award date for this contract is October 01, 2012. The objective of this IDIQ contract is to provide consulting services for Microsoft and other commercially-available information technology for the IRS. The contractor shall also provide resources that fulfill task order requirements under this contract to include Microsoft Corporation employees and non-Microsoft Corporation employees per the requirement listed separately in the individual task orders to be placed under this IDIQ. The nature of the IDIQ provides contract support services to include the Department of the Treasury, IRS, and other Treasury Bureaus' Information Technology (IT) needs. Task orders will serve as the official document to procure services from this IDIQ; each task order will describe in detail the specific requirements including the information contained in this IDIQ. The scope of this IDIQ is designed to enable IRS to develop and maintain its process modernization, governance development and the IT Architecture development and planning projects. Contractors will provide advice, support and consultation related to: •Microsoft and other commercially-available IT needed to support ITIL, Infrastructure application lifecycle, server virtualization, disaster recovery, business resumption, business process support, etc. •Platform Rationalization to assess the IRS's current IT environment, •Identifying overlapping functionality, improving data transparency, aligning business priorities to justify IT investments and expenditures, •Risk involved by providing modernization assessments on technical feasibility, costs and roadmaps for architecture transformation, •Technical feasibilities of future technologies, i.e., Cloud computing, etc. •Knowledge base databases to product teams and software developers about facilitation of seamless migration from existing Microsoft and other technologies to future product releases. •Information about source codes that impact current and emerging Microsoft architectural technologies to ensure proactive IRS planning, •Training curricula on new and emerging technologies required to manage existing Microsoft and other commercially-available IT impacted products. •Access to knowledge base teams and information to meet IRS future IT product and services requirements. •Assist IRS Business Units with modernization of their business processes and applications including development and implementation of new, existing, emerging and non-emerging technologies. The RFP is reserved exclusively for qualifying certified 8(a) small business concerns as the prime contractors per Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.8, and the Small Business Administration's (SBA) rules for the 8(a) Business Development Program (www.sba.gov). The IRS encourages interested parties to be familiar with the SBA 8(a) program's regulatory framework. Questions regarding the 8(a) program should be directed to the SBA. Joint Venture is acceptable under this RFP. If additional information is required for Joint Venture please see the SBA web-site at www.sba.gov. The NAICS code for the effort is 541519. The RFP shall be conducted using FULL and OPEN competition procedures. Interested parties who would like to have their areas of expertise included on a source list concerning this RFP should immediately submit the following information to the Contracting Officer: Name and address of company; specific contact within company including name, telephone, and e-mail address; company website address; short summary of expertise area within the projected scope of work (3 line maximum); socio-economic classification; and NAICS codes. Please also indicate if you are a certified 8(a) and SDVOB and/or HUBZone. This information will be updated until two weeks before the proposals are due, to allow interested Primes the opportunity to review potential team members. It is anticipated that this solicitation will be issued on or around June 01, 2012.
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