SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Service Operations Support Services (SOSS) - Package #1
- Notice Date
- 5/26/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of State, Office of Acquisitions, Acquisition Management, 1735 N. Lynn St., Arlington, Virginia, 22209, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22209
- Solicitation Number
- 1045553
- Archive Date
- 7/5/2016
- Point of Contact
- Darlene Watson, Phone: 7038754864, Vincent J Sanchez, Phone: 703-875-6629
- E-Mail Address
-
watsond1@state.gov, SanchezVJ@state.gov
(watsond1@state.gov, SanchezVJ@state.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- INSTRUCTIONS SCOPE OF WORK & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS DRAFT PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT The purpose of thie Sources Sought Notice for Small Businesses Only is to accomplish market research pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10, and to identify Small Business Firms capable of performing the functions described herein. The Government is requesting information reguarding a information technology services for the U. S. Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs,Office of Consular Systems Technology. This notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a commitment on the part of the Government to conduct a solicitation for the attached/below listed services in the future. Respondents are adv ised that the Government will not pay for information submitted in response to this Sources Sought, nor will it compensate respondents for any costs incurred in the development/furnishing of a response. The Government will not entertain telephone calls or questions for this Sources Sought. Please not that a decision not to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice; will not preclude a vendor from participating in any future solicitation. BACKGROUND The primary mission of the United States Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) is to protect and assist U.S. citizens abroad, to issue passports to U.S. Citizens, and to issue immigrant and non-immigrant visas to foreign nationals according to the laws of the U.S. Government. To achieve this mission, CA actively pursues business, technology, and management goals and objectives. CA/CST is tasked with providing CA's mission critical information technology (IT) resources necessary to support various CA locations including approximately 230 overseas posts, 29 domestic Passport agencies, 2 domestic Visa processing centers, and an array of information, book / card print, passport centers, DoS annexes, and contractor sites. CA/CST supports approximately 10000 worldwide clients including 1200 CA customers at locations in the Washington DC National Capitol Region (NCR). This is a Sources Sought Synopsis (SSS) in support of market research purposes only, and to specifically identify small business that may be able to support CA requirements. The Department of State’s Office of Acquisition Management, on behalf of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of Consular Systems and Technology (CA/CST) is seeking potential sources that are capable of providing services in centralized and decentralized environments to include 341 internal and external partners comprising of data center management, enterprise operations network monitoring, systems administration, telecommunications, hardware and Government off-the shelf (GOTS) and commercial off-the shelf (COTS) software application support to CA. To accomplish this objective, the services shall include necessary to engineer, build, enhance, maintain, and operate its unclassified and classified IT infrastructures, maintenance, installation of parts, systems administration and application support for CA/CST. To comply with the fast paced changes inherent in data processing and telecommunications, CST requires that contractor services provide for rapid provisioning of highly experienced and trained individuals. These contracted individuals will possess the skills to include certification for MCSE(s), CISSP(s), MCDA, CCNP, ITIL v3 Foundation(s), and Project Management Professionals (PMPs) with the IT backgrounds and the top secret security clearances required of CA’s environment of Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructures. This SSS is a posting which seeks potential Small Business Firms /sources that are capable of providing acquired services to specifically provide network monitoring, maintenance, installation of parts, systems administration and application support for CA/CST. The requirements described should capture a standards-based, best practices approach to providing service and support based on Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level III. The awardee shall maintain at least a CMMI Level III rating for the duration of the award. As stipulated in FAR 15.201, responses to this SSS are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.. Any information submitted by respondents to this SSS is voluntary and are not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government reimburse any costs associated with the submission of information in response to this notice. Respondents will not individually be notified of the results of any Government assessments. The Government reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside based upon responses hereto for any subsequent acquisition. The government’s evaluation of the SSS responses will factor into whether any forthcoming solicitation will be conducted as a full and open unrestricted competition, a set-aside for small businesses, or as a set aside for the socio-economic programs (e.g. HUBZone, WOSB, SDVOSB, etc.).
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/State/A-LM-AQM/A-LM-AQM/1045553/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, DC, Washington, District of Columbia, 20006, United States
- Zip Code: 20006
- Zip Code: 20006
- Record
- SN04129751-W 20160528/160526234122-25fbc8b91b373a3172f2dfdf2ff95aed (fbodaily.com)
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