2020-S-00018 Cloud Based Insight Solution.pdf

DESCRIPTION: MARKET SURVEY AND BIDDERS LIST DEVELOPMENT –

SOURCES SOUGHT REQUEST FOR A CLOUD-BASED INSIGHT ENGINE

SOLUTION.

The U.S. Senate, Office of the Sergeant at Arms (SAA) is seeking information from the vendor community about a cloud-based insight engine solution to enhance our user community’s end-to end experience with relevant context and purpose.

Response to this Request for Information (RFI) will assist the SAA in the review of current solutions offered in the marketplace for storage infrastructure. The SAA requests responses to detail solutions that: 1) meet or exceed the requirements set forth herein and 2) provide a full description of services offered, methods of implementation, and scope of the solution.

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. The SAA has issued this RFI solely for information and planning purposes – it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This SSN does not commit the SAA to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, neither the Senate nor SAA seek proposals at this time;

will not accept unsolicited proposals; will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this SSN. All costs associated with responding to this SSN will be solely at the interested party’s expense. If the SAA releases a request for proposal, it will be synopsized on the Federal Business Opportunities (beta.SAM.gov) website. It is the responsibility of the potential Bidders to monitor this site for additional information pertaining to this requirement.

All requirements listed below are mandatory unless otherwise noted. All requirements require a response. This synopsis contains the currently available information and is subject to change at any time.

REQUIREMENTS: The key functional requirements under consideration for an cloud-based insight engine solution must include, but are not limited to, the following:

The ability to precisely recall results , and adjust configuration based on optimization The cloud deployment must be easily integrated with our systems and designed to allow for new capabilities and functionality Must have role based access and authorization capability Must have a wide range of data sources and types that can be connected to and indexed.

Must be easy to administer, and configure custom solutions based on user-requirements Must have the ability to change query conditions based on captured result sets from user-related contextual metadata to personalize user experience.

Must have the ability to produce result sets in the form of data based on indexed content, and have in place capability to analyze the result set or put in a readable output to be ingested and analyzed by a third-party

Must have the ability to model data from content without the assistance of an external data set to create substantial indexes to enhance query results.

Flexibility to control the display of results in dashboard form to enhance applications

The ability to enable users to express their query in various ways (Natural Language, Keyword, API)

RESPONSES: Responses to this RFI shall include a brief response of technical summary to each of the mandatory requirements listed above cloud-based insight engine solution responses must be in accordance with the following:

Respondents must be the OEM provider/vendor. Responses submitted by resellers or third-party integrators will not be evaluated by the SAA.

Vendor responses must be based on the existing product’s or solution’s current, out-of-the-box, configurable capabilities. The SAA will not evaluate or consider custom or uniquely customized products or solutions.

The SAA will not evaluate or consider planned or future product enhancements when reviewing responses.

Solutions selected to proceed to a second round of procurement consideration by the

SAA.

Respondents must be prepared to brief in detail stated capabilities relative to some or all listed requirements. The SAA will announce to those selected vendors the Senate facility location and date when the briefings will take place.

Solutions providers selected to move to the third round of product evaluation by the SAA must be prepared to participate in a proof of capability on the OEM’s platform at no cost to the United States Senate based on use case provided in this round.

In addition, submissions must include:

Business information to include the following:

o A cover letter to include name of organization, street address, city, state, and zip code, point of contact (POC), telephone number, fax number, and email address

The information contained in this notice will be the only information provided by the SAA during the Sources Sought process. All qualified sources should respond to this notice by submitting an information package in accordance with the instructions provided. Contractors responding to this notice and deemed qualified after participating in the 90-day software evaluation hosted by the SAA may be requested to submit a proposal in response to a solicitation.

INSTRUCTIONS: Responses to this Sources Sought Notice are due to the POC no later than 12:00 Noon on June 22, 2020 and shall be submitted electronically via email only to the attention of Holly A. McDonald at holly_mcdonald@saa.senate.gov. The subject line of the email message shall be: 2020-S-00018 entitled "Cloud-based Insight Engine Solution".

No other method of transmittal will be accepted. The response shall not exceed twenty-five (25) pages. Unnecessarily elaborate submissions are discouraged. Pages over the page limitation may be discarded. Access by the SAA to information in any files attached to the response is the responsibility of the submitting party. Neither the SAA nor the Senate is responsible for any failure to access vendor's information.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. THIS NOTICE CONSTITUTES THE

ENTIRE SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND IS THE ONLY INFORMATION

PROVIDED BY THE SAA OR SENATE. ANY REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL

INFORMATION WILL NOT BE HONORED.