11th Contracting Squadron, 500 Duncan Ave, Room 250, Bolling AFB, DC 20332-0305

D -- VAMOSC SOL F49642-97-R0215 DUE 060297 POC Kimberly Ball, Contract Specialist, (202) 767-7947. No collect calls will be accepted The 11th Contracting Squadron intends to issue a solicitation for the procurement of software engineering, cost analysis support, and technical support for the Air Force Visibility and Management of Operating and Support Costs (VAMOSC) Program for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Cost and Economics, SAF/FMC. VAMOSC is the Air Force's primary information system for reporting historical operating and support costs of weapons systems. The contractor will be required to maintain, enhance, and re-engineer the custom application software, and provide database administration (DBA) support to include tuning of the VAMOSC Oracle databases and performing database conversions. The contractor shall provide data administration (DA) support, to include manually updating intermal cross-reference and factors tables; collecting, analyzing, validating, and loading the VAMOSC source data; incorporating new data element values into the processing algorithms as applicable; formatting pass-through cost data for loading into the VAMOSC ancillary database; performing rollup and post-rollup processing; performing data analysis and validation; identifying trends; and packaging data output into required formats. The contractor shall ensure the VAMOSC algorithms are valid and reflect current Air Force cost policy and reporting.The contractor shall create/update technical documentation. The contractor shall provide support to VAMOSC users by responding to questions with regard to data definition, answering technical questions, and running ad hoc queries to provide non-standard data products. The contractor shall maintain and enhance the Cost Factor Workflow application. The contractor may be required to develop and integrate a component level costing capability as well as enhance VAMOSC applications to accommodate a new cost element structure. The contractor will be required to host all VAMOSC application software, Oracle software, and Open VMS operating system software in contractor furnished hardware resident at the contractor's facility. The contractor will be responsible for hardware operations and maintenance. The selected architecture must be able to support Internet connectivity. The contractor shall maintain/enhance the VAMOSC World-Wide Web site which provides data access, VAMOSC user information, user forum, and standard query and reporting tools. The contractor shall perform hardware and sotware configuration management. The contractor shall perform database back-ups and provide safeguarding of data. The contractor shall prepare "technology road maps" describing how technology may be integrated into the current system to meet neew requirements. Contractor qualifications: Because the contractor will be required on-site at the Program Office on a frequent basis, the contractor shall have office facilities within a 50 mile radius of Arlington, VA. Specific knowledge is required of the custom edit, load, distribution, rollup, post-rollup, and datapack creation software as well as the underlying data structures and relational database table organization. Functional knowledge of Air Force logistics, operations, and financial management practices, policies, and initiatives integral to determining operating and support costs of weapons systems is also required. The contractor must be familiar with the source systems that feed VAMOSC in terms of data definitions and quality. The contractor must have expertise in using Open VMS, Digital Control Language, Oracle version 7 RDBMS and related Oracle products, ProCOBOL, MS-Excel macro language, Visual Basic, HTML, PERL, NT version 4, and Pro-C. The successful offeror must be certified Level Two or higher according to the key practices of the Capability Maturity Model developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. The Government anticipates awarding an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with Firm-Fixed Price Labor Rates. Task orders are to be placed against the contract. Other Direct Costs (ODCs) will include travel, computer fees, materials, etc. A single award will be made to the offeror whose proposal is most advantegeous to the Government. Potential offerorswill have thirty days from the issuance of the Request for Proposal (RFP) to submit their technical proposals. The past Performance portion of the proposal must be submitted within 15 days after issuance of the RFP. Th proposed period of performance will include a base period and up to four twelve month options. The SIC Code for this solicitaion is 7379. DPA: KAA-95-AD-011. Interested vendors should contact the aforementioned Contract Specialist in writing. No telephone calls will be accepted. (0058)

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