2024-1600-0249 --1624-020 RFP - Amendment #3.pdf

STATE OF ALASKA

Department of Health Division of Finance and Management Services

State of Alaska National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Base System (NBS) Interface, Application, and Development Support

RFP 2024-1600-0249/1624-020

Amendment No. Three

November 7, 2024

This amendment is being issued to revise one section of the RFP and to provide answers to inquiries.

Important Note to Offerors: You must sign and return this page of the amendment document with your proposal.

Failure to do so may result in the rejection of your proposal. Only the RFP terms and conditions referenced in this amendment are being changed. All other terms and conditions of the RFP remain the same.

Anneliese Zlitni, Procurement Officer

COMPANY SUBMITTING PROPOSAL

Email: anneliese.zlitni@alaska.gov

AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

DATE

Change to the IRFP:

Change: The following section is revised:

SEC. 3.05 INTENT TO PROPOSE AND NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

See RFP Amendment No. Two, Change One: In place of RFP Section 3.05 – Intent to Propose and Nondisclosure Agreement reading[,] “To obtain the DOH HIPAA Security Assessment Controls / Assessment Questions List, the offeror must complete and submit an Intent to Propose and Non-disclosure Agreement, provided as an attachment to this RFP. The signed agreement must be emailed to the procurement officer as an attachment and the offeror must also provide the phone number and email address of the person who is to receive the file. The file will then be provided by the procurement officer to an offeror via a secure file transfer site or other method.

The procurement officer will not provide this file until receipt of the completed and signed intent to propose and non-disclosure agreement. The State reserves the right to clarify and verify any offeror’s ability to perform the services required under this solicitation prior to granting access to the file.”

substitute the following:

“To obtain the NIST CSF Assessment Questions List, the offeror must complete and submit an Intent to Propose and Non-disclosure Agreement, provided as an attachment to this RFP. The signed agreement must be emailed to the procurement officer as an attachment and the offeror must also provide the phone number and email address of the person who is to receive the file. The file will then be provided by the procurement officer to an offeror via a secure file transfer site or other method.

The procurement officer will not provide this file until receipt of the completed and signed intent to propose and non-disclosure agreement. The State reserves the right to clarify and verify any offeror’s ability to perform the services required under this solicitation prior to granting access to the file, and any proposal submitted from an offeror that does not have a signed NDA will be considered non-responsive.”

The following inquiries are here presented and answered:

Question 1: When does Alaska’s contract with the current vendor of your production system end? Is there a target date by which the current instance of NBS must be migrated to a different environment?

Answer 1: Approximately April 2025.

Question 2: Per Form B, ‘Offerors must provide two (2) letters of reference that each address performance of deliverables on time and within budget.’ Would an assessment from CDC Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) be acceptable?

Answer 2: Yes, that would be acceptable for one of the references.

End of Amendment

Sec. 3.05 INTENT TO PROPOSE AND NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT