SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- IT Capability Lifecycle Management Framework Automation - RFI
- Notice Date
- 8/17/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Defense Contract Management Agency, Defense Contract Management Agency, DCMA AQ, 3901 A Ave, BLDG 10500, Fort Lee, Virginia, 23801-1809, United States
- ZIP Code
- 23801-1809
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-10095
- Archive Date
- 10/3/2015
- Point of Contact
- Jesse Williams, Phone: 8047340338
- E-Mail Address
-
jesse.williams@dcma.mil
(jesse.williams@dcma.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Request for Information Delivery RFI Details (excel) OVERVIEW The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) provides support to the Department of Defense (DoD) at over 800 locations world-wide. In order to provide far reaching support, DCMA relies heavily on timely information and advances in information technology: DCMA is a high process and data intense organization. The Information Technology and Facilities Directorates are the largest support organizations within DCMA that must provide a variety of services in order for DCMA to execute its mission. These directorates have been using various tools, methods, and techniques coupled with unintegrated and antiquated technology in order to plan and execute their direct missions. While the specific outputs of these directorates are different, there are some common and unique capabilities that need to be put in place and integrated in order to provide end-to-end traceability for: Inventory & Assets; Facilities Management; Project & Portfolio Management; Requirements & Contract Planning & Budgeting; Application Lifecycle Management; Configuration Management. The majority of this RFI speaks of the capabilities needed directly support the Information Technology mission as modernizing IT Management systems is the biggest gap. ABOUT DCMA DCMA is the Department of Defense's (DoD) component that works directly with Defense suppliers to help ensure that DoD, Federal, and allied government supplies and services are delivered on time, at projected cost, and meet performance requirements. DCMA directly contributes to the military readiness of the United States and its allies, and helps preserve the nation's freedom. DCMA provides Contract Administration Services to the DoD Acquisition Enterprise and its partners to ensure delivery of quality products and services to the warfighter; on time and on cost. DCMA is a recognized leader of, and contributor to many of DoD's business reform initiatives. Those initiatives' goals are to improve the Nation's defense in the most economical and efficient ways possible. This involves managing 334,000 prime contracts valued at approximately $1.2 Trillion. DCMA is headquartered in Ft Lee, Virginia and currently employs approximately 10,500 civilian and military professionals worldwide. DCMA consists of over 50 Contract Management Offices (CMOs) with over 800 employee duty stations worldwide, working with over 19,000 Defense related firms. PURPOSE OF THE RFI The purpose of this RFI is to gather information pertaining to improving and/or modernizing the Agency's IT Business and Service Management Capabilities. We are seeking industry expertise to understand the approaches to solving our business challenges and gaps in order to help define our enterprise path forward. DCMA is open to any possible combination of existing DCMA owned tools reconfigured and integrated as well as consolidating and/or replacement to new tool sets that will streamline and simplify manual intervention. Responses to this RFI will be reviewed by DCMA for their applicability to the Government's need and determined to be "Relevant" or "Irrelevant" to the enterprise IT problem. Offers' of "Relevant" responses may be requested to demonstrate their approach/product to a Government panel of Subject Matter Experts to help DCMA determine the art of the possibility for seamlessly management of IT processes and information. At this time, DCMA is not seeking demonstrations of specific products, rather best practices and approaches for achieving a completely integrated solution for the ITCLM concept. Note: At this time no single RFP has been planned. Responses to this RFI should help DCMA craft the path forward strategy. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. REQUESTS FOR A SOLICITATION WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. There is no contractual commitment to be construed as a result of the inquiry being made, nor is there a guarantee that there will be an opportunity to provide a proposal for this Market Research As a result of this RFI the most relevant response(s) may be ask to further explain/demonstrate aspects of their propose approach in a Government held Industry Day(s) in the Richmond, Virginia area. The Industry Days will be organized as "one on one" meetings, meaning one Contracting Firm to one Government Joint Board (DCMA SME's) at a time. Further details will be provided at a later date. Any specific solutions proposed through the responses of this RFI should be willing/able to demonstrate that capability and speak to the approaches for implementing and integrating throughout the DCMA IT environment. RESPONSES TO THIS RFI While we would prefer a comprehensive approach to solve the entirety of this RFI, we also understand that there may be pockets of expertise that cannot talk to the entire concept: in these cases DCMA recommends vendor partnering as our end goal is to be as integrated as possible. All responses to this RFI should include the following: • Identify existing DCMA systems that should be replaced or consolidated into a more robust enterprise system and/or recommend reconfiguration and integration of existing DCMA capabilities to satisfy the gaps • Recommend open architecture solutions to satisfy the business challenges and capability gaps that cannot be solved by current DCMA technology • Specific examples of other DoD entities using the proposed solutions • Identify the different approaches to implement and train the capabilities • Identify the different approaches to integrating all the capabilities and ultimately produce one drill down "dashboard" view • Recommend approaches for bringing the proposed IT capabilities in line with the underlying processes. • RFI responses should reflect addressing the process maturity through implementation of the systems or at very least address an implementation approach that reflects building the maturity over a period of time. • Specific examples of projects where the proposed systems and approaches have either been deployed or are currently in-work • Scope of projects • Environment (Federal Government, State/Local Government, Private Industry) • Timelines - actual and expected • Outcomes • Lessons learned from previous implementations • Timelines to expect for each stage of the process and overall timeline from start to finish • Identify the approach and solution set that could be utilized/reutilized to aid with DCMA facilities management. RFI RESPONSE SUBMISSION • In addition to the above; each response must contain: • An executive summary describing the content and scope of the proposed solution • Company profile • Primary points of contact • Page Limit of Responses: 45 • Submit Responses to: DCMA Procurement Center 3901 A Ave, BLD 10500 Fort Lee, Virginia 23801 RFI.Responses@dcma.mil • Administrative questions concerning this RFI: Jesse.Williams@dcma.mil RFI SCHEDULE RFI Release: 8/17/2015 Responses Due: 9/18/2015 (15-day extension may be granted at Contracting Officers discretion). Please submit requests for extension to Jesse.Williams@dcma.mil. Contractor must specify what part of the response requires additional time and provide the draft copy upon request.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: DCMA HQ, 3901 A Ave, BLDG 10500, Fort Lee, Virginia, 23801, United States
- Zip Code: 23801
- Zip Code: 23801
- Record
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