FY16 OCE voyager search & pro services REF USDA CRQ 1232135; REF NLT quote dated 8/29/2016; see attached NLT proposal requirements: 1. Plan and conduct post award kickoff to establish detailed…

This is a $449,549.96 firm-fixed-price delivery order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Information Officer to New Light Technologies Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, under the 8(a) STARS II GWAC. The contract is to provide a geospatial search engine solution with perpetual software licenses, technical account management, software installation, setup, training, and ongoing support services at USDA locations in Texas, Utah, and Missouri. This includes detailed reporting on hardware, network, and architecture requirements to support an enterprise USDA deployment. The contract has no set-aside designation and runs through March 2019.

FY16 OCE voyager search & pro services REF USDA CRQ 1232135; REF NLT quote dated 8/29/2016; see attached NLT proposal requirements: 1. Plan and conduct post award kickoff to establish detailed schedule for site evaluations, coordinate milestones, create statement of objectives. 2. Deliver a geospatial search engine solution with perpetual software licenses to meet USDA requirements of specific asset discovery, indexing and cataloging to support field service centers and supporting large offices and headquarters. Solutions will include sites located in FT. Worth TX, salt lake city UT and kansas city MO. 3. Deliver professional services for each aforementioned location within the POP of the contract to include: technical account manager package; minimum of 160 hours per site (virtual or on-site); travel expenses supporting up to (2) site visits per location; professional services to include SCS GIS environment assessment, software installation, software set-up and training, ongoing management, vendor reach back and support, vendor packaged and SCA environment specific documentation, testing, management of any discovered requirements enabling the success of the project. 4. Deliver a detailed report by the end of the POP providing minimally the number of licensed solutions and costs required to support the SCA GIS community at an enterprise level(data centers/field offices); out year costs of maintaining any perpetual licenses at the aforementioned level; detailed requirements for hardware, network and architecture to support an SCA enterprise deployment; strategy, proposal and budgetary estimates to establish an enterprise agreement at the USDA departmental level to include all USDA sub-agencies and to absorb SCA funded licenses into the enterprise agreement, and any additional information discovered during the engagement that assists in budgetary estimation and justification. 5. Provide capabilities to the government including: ability to locate, inventory, audit, index, search generate reports and usage statistics and easily exchange geographic information that is accessible on local and remote web servers and file storage systems or servers at the three sites; the ability to capture content that for many of the content sources little or no geographic metadata exists, where content is housed on enterprise level storage systems or web servers is complex and often involving highly interdependent elements that must be rendered simultaneously and the solution will be independent of any specific geospatial mapping or analysis tool that might be used to render the data in a digital map or other format. Software will be interoperable with all major geospatial mapping and analysis tools and content sources.