MAS - Affirma, LLC - 47QTCA24D006F

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Multiple Award Schedule

FSC Group: Information Technology FSC Class: DA01

Contract number: 47QTCA24D006F

Contract period: March 14, 2024 through March 13, 2029

AFFIRMA, LLC

3380 146TH PL SE, STE 100

Bellevue, Washington 98007-6472 https://www.affirma.com/

CHRIS MAWHORTER | CEM

Email : cmawhorter@affirma.com

P 512-496-5168 F 425-274-7289

Business size: Small Business

For more information on ordering, go to the following website: https://www.gsa.gov/schedules

Prices Shown Herein are Net (discount deducted) https://www.affirma.com/

CUSTOMER INFORMATION

1a. Table of awarded special item number(s) with appropriate cross-reference to item descriptions and awarded price(s).

SINs SIN Title

54151S Information Technology Professional Services

1c. If the Contractor is proposing hourly rates, a description of all corresponding commercial job titles, experience, functional responsibility and education for those types of employees or subcontractors who will perform services shall be provided. If hourly rates are not applicable, indicate “Not applicable” for this item. See Page 4-6

2. Maximum order: $500,000

3. Minimum order: $100

4. Geographic coverage (delivery area). Worldwide

5. Point(s) of production (city, county, and State or foreign country). 3380 146TH PL SE, STE 100

Bellevue, Washington 98007-6472

6. Discount from list prices or statement of net price. Government Prices are Net. (discounts already deducted.)

7. Quantity discounts. An additional 2.5% on single orders equal to or greater than $500K.

8. Prompt payment terms. 1.0% 10 Days, Net 30. Information for Ordering Offices: Prompt payment terms cannot be negotiated out of the contractual agreement in exchange for other concessions.

9. Foreign items (list items by country of origin). Not Applicable

10a. Time of delivery. (Contractor insert number of days.) To Be Determined at the Task Order level

10b. Expedited Delivery. Items available for expedited delivery are noted in this price list. To Be

Determined at the Task Order level

10c. Overnight and 2-day delivery. To Be Determined at the Task Order level

10d. Urgent Requirements. To Be Determined at the Task Order level

11. F.O.B. point(s). Destination

12a. Ordering address(es). 3380 146TH PL SE, STE 100 Bellevue, Washington 98007-6472

12b. Ordering procedures: See Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.405-3.

13. Payment address(es). 3380 146TH PL SE, STE 100 Bellevue, Washington 98007-6472

14. Warranty provision. Not Applicable

15. Export packing charges, if applicable. Not Applicable

16. Terms and conditions of rental, maintenance, and repair (if applicable). Not Applicable

17. Terms and conditions of installation (if applicable). Not Applicable

18a. Terms and conditions of repair parts indicating date of parts price lists and any discounts from list prices (if applicable). Not Applicable

18b. Terms and conditions for any other services (if applicable). Not Applicable

19. List of service and distribution points (if applicable). Not Applicable

20. List of participating dealers (if applicable Not Applicable

21. Preventive maintenance (if applicable). Not Applicable

22a. Special attributes such as environmental attributes (e.g., recycled content, energy efficiency, and/or reduced pollutants). Not Applicable

22b. If applicable, indicate that Section 508 compliance information is available for the information and communications technology (ICT) products and services and show where full details can be found (e.g.

contractor’s website or other location.) ICT accessibility standards can be found at:

https://www.Section508.gov/.

Not Applicable

23. Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number. GRQ4XLHA37H7

24. Notification regarding registration in System for Award Management (SAM) database. Contractor registered and active in SAM

LABOR CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS

Labor Category

Functional Responsibility Minimum Education/

Certification Level

Minimum Years of

Experience /General

Experience

Project Manager

Project Manager's work in a collaborative, and up-beat environment helping drive projects around the latest and greatest technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and track project team’s work using PM tools such as MS Project or JIRA/ADO

• Send weekly status report including project status, tasks, timeline, budget, and other updates

• Set up project controls at the start of project (scope, schedule, budget)

• Lead project kick off meetings to discuss and align on project/client expectations

• Lead ongoing project meetings to maintain project/client expectations

• Set project goals and objectives by analyzing and understanding project/client needs

• Discuss, clearly document, and closely track project and deliverable requirements

• Provides measurable and timely response to client inquiries, work requests, and concerns

• Communicates directly with client and team members to define project goals and provide reports on project status and variances

• Conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analysis and problem-solving

• Monitor and report project risks & issues including impact and mitigation strategies

• Works effectively across disciplines and organizational boundaries to prioritize tasks and gain timely closure on decisions

• Considers the big picture and execute well thought out, data-driven decisions

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years prior professional Project Management experience in IT and/or Consulting

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

• Experience driving multiple projects simultaneously (4-6)

• Competent in MS Office, MS Project and JIRA/ADO

• Passion for technology and technically savvy

• Experience managing and developing processes and procedures

• Organized, driven, and hardworking Bachelors 2

• Experience working with development teams and understanding of software development life cycles

• Self-starter who works well in ambiguous environments

• High level of dependability working in a multi-team project setting

• Preferred experience working with development teams or in a consulting environment

Marketing Engineer

The SEM/SEO Consultant will be responsible for planning, implementing, and managing our client’s overall SEO strategy for increased brand awareness and lead generation. This can include on-page and off-page tactics, such as technical advisement and backlinking efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

- Conduct high-quality SEO audits to uncover insightful findings, develop action items, and confidently present your recommendations

- Perform goal-oriented keyword and persona research for use in SEO efforts

- Prepare and present client-facing audits and metric reports, providing data-driven recommendations and creative strategies to meet our clients’ goals

- Continually build a trusted advisor relationship with our clients, support our sales team on prospective accounts, and manage a small book of marketing accounts

- Plan, develop and implement SEO strategy

- Optimize client’s content, landing pages, website, video for

SEO

- Work towards organic search optimization and ROI maximization

- Regularly perform thorough keywords research

- Identify key SEO KPIs

- Monitor redirects, click rate, bounce rate, and other KPIs

- Prepare and present reports regularly

- Identify buyer personas to better target identified audiences

- Identify problems and deficiency and implement solutions in a timely manner

- Suggest improvements for process and productivity optimization

- Work with our internal web developers and content teams to properly implement SEO best practices

- Recommend changes to website architecture, content, linking and other factors to improve SEO positions for target keywords.

- Stay up to date with the latest SEO and digital marketing latest trends and best practices

Requirements:

- 2-4 years of experience with SEO and Google Analytics, ideally liaising with multiple stakeholders or clients

- Demonstrated experience with SEO tools, such as SEMrush, Screaming Frog, ahrefs and other SEM related Bachelors 3 tools

- Experience researching and writing technical content

- Analytical capabilities to measure and report on effectiveness of campaigns and make informed decisions based on data

- Confidence to drive conversations with executive stakeholders, as well as to support your recommendations

- Learn from mistakes, be willing to ask for support, and help our clients grow

- Solid English skills (written and speaking)

Change Management

Program Manager

Change Management Specialist plays an important role in change initiative projects to meet business, budget, and schedule objectives. This person’s responsibility is to focus on all changes to systems, business processes, and technology, organization structures and job roles. This individual creates and implements change management plans and strategies that maximize employee engagement and minimize employee resistance. The specialist adopts, utilizes and attains proficiency on all changes affecting employees in the company to achieve business results.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Applying a well-structured change management plan, and methodology for any changes on employees caused by projects.

• Developing a change management plan considering the change details and the affected groups.

• Conducting readiness assessments, evaluating results and presenting findings in an easy-to-understand and logical manner.

• Identifying potential employee-side risks and anticipating the resistance, and developing specific plans to address or mitigate the concerns.

• Developing a set of targeted and actionable change management plans, which includes communication plan, coaching plan, sponsor roadmap, resistance management plan and training plan.

• Creating and managing measurement systems in order to track utilization, adoption, and proficiency of employee changes.

• Supporting the implementation of plans by business leaders and employee-facing managers.

• Working with project teams in integrating change actions into the actual overall project plan.

• Identifying performance and resistance gaps, and working to develop and execute corrective actions.

• Working with training, communication, OD and HR specialists to formulate particular activities and plans to support in the project implementation.

• Creating and activating reinforcement mechanisms and jubilations of success.

Skills and Specifications

• Knowledge of principles and methodologies of change Bachelors 3 management, especially ACMP and PROSCI.

• Able to work well with all levels of professionals in an organization.

• Excellent active listening, root cause identification and interpersonal skills.

• Good communicator and able to influence people.

• Good team player and able to operate independently.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Education or certifications related to organizational change.

Design

Visual Designer’s are passionate about visual design. They are responsible for visual design elements such as fonts, color, photography, animation, illustration, video, iconography, and design systems to inspire, engage, and empower users.

Our visual Designer’s are multidisciplinary, taking projects from concept to execution. They have experience in both print and digital and can take requirements and convert them seamlessly into images, layouts and other designs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Create detailed visual comps of and visual assets for web pages for desktop, tablet, and mobile screens

• Working with and presenting concepts directly to clients.

• Prepare creative files for hand off to developers

• Develop detailed design specs for production

• Work closely with Project management, UX, and development to ensure that design specifications are implemented

• Work with PM or Creative Lead to understand and gather client design requirements

• Processing briefs and verbal instructions to inform designs and provide options and approaches

• Manage quality control of final files

• Manage time well across a handful of concurrent projects

• Follow a development timeline to ensure tasks are being completed on time

Common Attributes

• Highly collaborative.

• Proactive and self-driven. You don't wait. You seek out the information you need and look for help from colleagues when needed.

• Constant seeking of inspiration, and ideas from everything around you.

• You show your work when in process because you know exposing it frequently will improve it. Bachelors 3

• Lean and efficient. You know when to agonize over pixels at the right times. You create just enough to communicate your ideas at the right time but make sure everything is pixel perfect for your clients.

• Strong critical thinking. You understand the importance of visual design as part of an experience from both a human-centered and business perspective.

Background

• Degree in visual design, graphic design, HCI or equivalent work experience

• 3+ years as a professional creative

• Experience in digital and print including, web, mobile, social and emerging platforms

• Proven ability to develop and produce pixel perfect creative ideas

• Self-starter, self-motivated, able to work independently, and can manage multiple projects under minimal supervision

• Ability to operate in an agile, entrepreneurial environment

• Outstanding interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work well under pressure to meet important deadlines

• Ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks at the same time

• A keen eye for design and knowledge of the latest visual trends

• Illustration skills, motion graphics/animation experience strongly desired

• Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, XD,Sketch or equivalent design tool

• At least minimal fluency in in Adobe Premier, Aftereffects, InDesign

• Exceptional portfolio of work spanning multiple projects

QA Offshore

Quality Assurance positions are fulltime specialists comfortable working in a team. They are responsible for end to end testing of designed solutions to ensure parity with client needs.

• This position requires an individual to be technically strong, team-oriented, able to work with cross-functional teams, and driven to ensure delivery of high quality features.

• Contribute to the quality of systems by Reviewing features, user stories, acceptance criteria, design documents and bug descriptions and create plans to ensure quality applications meet requirements of scalability, stress, negativity, usability, performance

• Create, document, maintain, extend and execute automated tests. The suite of tests will be developed within a framework that will allow for repeatability.

• Isolate, reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve issues that surface during. Bachelors 2

• Actively participate in daily stand-up meetings, demos, retrospectives, grooming, sprint planning, release planning and other Agile meetings.

• Write system, installation, configuration and support documentation for ed applications.

• Design and develop reliable, scalable and maintainable test automation to validate complex hybrid cloud infrastructure features

• Communicate and collaborate with engineering teams to develop automation processes and plans

• Diagnose, debug and perform root cause analysis of issues and defects

• Experience with Agile/SCRUM

• The candidate should be self -driven, with a strong quality background

• Experience writing and executing complex system level test plans, test cases and test reports

• Strong oral and written communication skills are essential

• Work collaboratively within a team environment of other engineers to meet aggressive goals and high quality standards.

Requirements

• 5 years Functional testing

• Regression/Retesting Testing

• Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Plan creation

• The following are some skills and highlights of my qualifications and experience:

• Black-box testing (System, Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Ad-hoc, Exploratory)

• UI/UX testing

• 2 years of experience in Selenium framework using TestNG

• 2 years of experience in load testing using Jmeter

• Working knowledge of tools like JIRA

• Complete knowledge of SDLC, STLC, and Bug Lifecycle

• Basic knowledge of Rest API(Postman)

Offshore Sr.

Engineer

Highly experienced software engineer addressing complex needs on projects and providing technology leadership

• Individuals are responsible for all traditional development activities like analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation.

• Team handling experience - Team size varies from 2-10.

• Add new features to existing Windows and Web-based applications in Visual Studio 2019.

• Interacting with the USA Team on a daily basis for development activities.

• Transform business and design needs into innovative products.

• Drive all projects to completion within deadlines.

• Perform thorough testing to find issues ahead of time.

• Have good working knowledge on .Net, Asp.net, C#, MVC, Bachelors 5

Angular JS, Web (ASP.NET, JQuery , JavaScript), LINQ, HTML, CSS)

• Strong MS SQL and ability to write procedure and SQL functions and queries.

• Keen to learn new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.

• Developing and integrating RESTful API services.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of hand on development experience with windows, web & database technologies.

• Excellent programming & communication skills

• Strong problem solving, judgmental, and decision-making skills.

• ability to work at the tactical and strategic levels of IT initiatives.

• Impressive hands-on experience in .Net technologies.

• Impressive hands-on experience and knowledge with VB.NET, C#, SQL, JASON, XML, Win Forms & MVC.

• Knowledge of Visual Studio 2013,2015,2019 & .NET Frameworks 2.0,3.5,4.0,4.5

• Experience with the health care industry will be an advantage

• Self-Motivated, flexible & Innovative

Development Lead

Experienced technologist responsible for the overall success of the project that guides projects and manages engeneer teams.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of hand on development experience with windows, web & database technologies.

• Excellent programming & communication skills

• Strong problem solving, judgmental, and decision-making skills.

• ability to work at the tactical and strategic levels of IT initiatives.

• Impressive hands-on experience in .Net technologies.

• Impressive hands-on experience and knowledge with VB.NET, C#, SQL, JASON, XML, Win Forms &MVC.

• Knowledge of Visual Studio 2013,2015,2019 & .NET Frameworks 2.0,3.5,4.0,4.5

• Experience with the health care industry will be an advantage

• Self-Motivated, flexible & Innovative The guided responsibilities:

• Individuals are responsible for all traditional development activities like analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation.

• Team handling experience - Team size varies from 2-10.

• Add new features to existing Windows and Web-based applications in Visual Studio 2019.

• Interacting with the USA Team on a daily basis for development activities. Bachelors 5

• Transform business and design needs into innovative products.

• Drive all projects to completion within deadlines.

• Perform thorough testing to find issues ahead of time.

• Have good working knowledge on .Net, Asp.net, C#, MVC, Angular JS, Web (ASP.NET, JQuery , JavaScript), LINQ, HTML, CSS)

• Strong MS SQL and ability to write procedure and SQL functions and queries.

• Keen to learn new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.

• Developing and integrating RESTful API services.

Offshore Engineer

Experienced offshore software engineer addressing technical needs on projects under direction of senior developer. Overview

• Individuals are responsible for all traditional development activities like analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation.

• Add new features to existing Windows and Web-based applications in Visual Studio 2019.

• Interacting with the USA Team on a daily basis for development activities.

• Transform business and design needs into innovative products.

• Drive all projects to completion within deadlines.

• Perform thorough testing to find issues ahead of time.

• Have good working knowledge on .Net, Asp.net, C#, MVC, Angular JS, Web (ASP.NET, JQuery , JavaScript), LINQ, HTML, CSS)

• Strong MS SQL and ability to write procedure and SQL functions and queries.

• Keen to learn new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning.

• Developing and integrating RESTful API services.

Requirements

• 2+ Years of hand on development experience with windows, web & database technologies.

• Excellent programming & communication skills

• Strong problem solving, judgmental, and decision-making skills.

• ability to work at the tactical and strategic levels of IT initiatives.

• Impressive hands-on experience in .Net technologies.

• Impressive hands-on experience and knowledge with VB.NET, C#, SQL, JASON, XML, Win Forms & MVC.

• Knowledge of Visual Studio 2013,2015,2019 & .NET Frameworks 2.0,3.5,4.0,4.5

• Experience with the health care industry will be an advantage

• Self-Motivated, flexible & Innovative Bachelors 3

Service Contract Labor Standards: The Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS), formerly known as the Service Contract Act (SCA), is applicable to this contract as it applies to the entire Multiple

Award Schedule (MAS) and all services provided. While no specific labor categories have been identified as being subject to SCLS/SCA due to exemptions for professional employees (FAR 22.1101,

22.1102 and 29 CRF 541.300), this contract still maintains the provisions and protections for

SCLS/SCA eligible labor categories. If and / or when the contractor adds SCLS/SCA labor categories to the contract through the modification process, the contractor must inform the Contracting Officer and establish a SCLS/SCA matrix identifying the GSA labor category titles, the occupational code, SCLS/SCA labor category titles and the applicable WD number. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of the contract.

Labor Category/Service Title SIN/SIN(s) Proposed 1 YEAR Project Manager 54151S $171.13

Marketing Engineer 54151S $139.29

Change Management Program Manager 54151S $181.76

Design 54151S $175.11

QA Offshore 54151S $51.74

Offshore Sr. Engineer 54151S $85.92

Development Lead 54151S $183.07

Offshore Engineer 54151S $51.74