612571166_Sources_Sought_OCFO CFS .docx

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

612571166

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking sources for J8/Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)/Financial Management Operations Support Division (CFS) Systems Support.

CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS: DITCO-NCR/ Procurement Services Directorate (PSD) – PS61/ PO BOX 549 FORT MEADE, MD 20755-0549 USA

INTRODUCTION:

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE to determine the availability and technical capability of small businesses (including the following subsets: Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Certified 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, HUBZone Small Businesses and Woman-Owned Small Businesses) to provide the required products and/or services.

The OCFO’s mission is to provide DISA leadership with accurate, timely, and reliable financial information necessary to support DISA’s mission, and the systems and applications within the FMSS is critical to assuring the OCFO mission is successful. By ensuring access to comprehensible data (such as using the Financial Dashboard) and developing resilient analytical tools, such as DISA Integrated Management and Execution System (DIMES) that facilitate well-informed decision-making, DISA aims to enhance its support for the warfighter and effectively tackle challenges in national defense.

The J8/Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)/Financial Management Operations Support Division (CFS) Systems Support is seeking information from potential sources to provide functional, technical, and management support for the DISA OCFO. This support will support OCFO’s use of the Financial Management Systems Software (FMSS) in support of the Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) and the General Fund.

The anticipated Period of Performance is 1 June 2025 – 31 May 2029.

The anticipated Place of Performance is DISA Headquarters – Ft. Meade, MD.

DISCLAIMER:

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS NOTICE. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS NOTICE. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

CONTRACT/PROGRAM BACKGROUND:

Contract Number: HC104720F0089 Contractor: Deloitte Consulting Group LLP Contract Vehicle: National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) Incumbent and their size: Other than Small Business Method of previous acquisition: Full and Open Competition Period of performance: June 1, 2020 – May 31, 2025

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES:

(1) Provide administrative, technical, and functional support for IBM Cognos suite of software products (to include Cognos Analytics, Framework Manager, PowerPlay, ReportStudio, and Planning Analytics (TM1) and will be hereafter referred to as Cognos Suite) that provides execution reporting, reports/cubes capabilities, and budget formulation capabilities for General Fund and DWCF financial business areas.

(2) Provide administrative, technical, and functional support for the OneStream software in order to develop a unified, comprehensive platform (DISA Integrated Management and Execution System (DIMES)) to streamline/automate DISA’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process.

(3) Provide technical, administrative, and functional Cognos 11 (and above) software expertise and programming to ensure system development, functionality, availability, and integration with external data sources. The Contractor personnel should have a minimum of seven years of hands-on experience with Cognos 11 (or above) and the Cognos Suite.

(4) Provide network administrative support of software, such as installation, configuration, firewall/network configuration and support, and trouble-shooting on test and production servers.

(5) Provide operations and maintenance of data warehouses for both the DWCF (at least 1.7 Terabytes (TB)) and General Fund (at least 50 Gigabytes (GB)) business areas. This includes, but is not limited to, data refreshes, importing financial data from external systems, monitoring of system workloads, improving and implementing updates/changes, and external application integration to ensure efficient and successful processing. Describe your experience with data modeling, applying data warehouse principles, and database operations maintenance, with a focus on managing financial data.

(6) Provide financial and functional support to the DWCF and General Fund, to include, budget cycles/system assistance, execution/cash flow business practices, functional support of FAMIS, and to improve the functionality of the DWCF and General Fund budgeting systems. The potential Contractor personnel must also have had a minimum of five years of providing functional support for the General Fund and DWCF business areas. Please describe your functional experience and working knowledge with the General Fund and DWCF business areas, to include the budget cycles, cash flow management, and execution business practices.

(7) Provide information assurance accreditation support and application/site compliance in accordance with the Department of Defense (DoD) Risk Management Framework (RMF), (DoDI 8510.01). Obtain certification and accreditation (C&A) readiness support and provide application and site compliance support in accordance with the Department of Defense RMF (DoDI8510.01) for DoD Information Technology (IT), which will be required at the time proposals are due. This support includes the development of Security and Accreditation documentation required by the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and updates to Vulnerability Management System entries and/or in support of any or all Approval to Operate (ATO) and Facility Security Officer (FSO) request. Provide information assurance and accreditation support, including ensuring compliance with RMF (DoDI 8510.01), providing necessary documentation, and making Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) updates to obtain an Interim Authority To Test, Interim Authority to Operate, and Authority to Operate for applications.

(8) To effectively support these technical requirements, the Contractor personnel must also possess at least seven years of the below industry based technical skills:

a. Active Directory/Active Directory Lightweight Services (AD/ADLS), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) integration, Computer Associate’s (CA) SiteMinder and IIS (or other similar user authentication application)

b. Hardening/Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) windows systems and Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) applications with local and/or agency policies and executing application programing development in accordance with the STIG

c. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Active Server Pages (ASP), XML, .Net, C#, C++, API , JavaScript, D3.js, Geospatial Intelligence, sTunnel, SSH, File Transfer Protocol/Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP/SFTP/FTPS)

d. Oracle 19c Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) and Structured Query Language (SQL), database stored procedures, and triggers.

e. Windows Communication Foundation, PowerShell, Procedural language SQL (PL SQL), Oracle Scheduler

f. MS SQL Server Database Management System (DBMS), Transact SQL (T-SQL), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

g. MySQL DBMS

h. Management, troubleshooting, maintaining, and configuring basic network and firewall infrastructure.

i. Tool for Oracle Application Development (TOAD), SQL Developer and Bi-Query

j. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

1. All Contractors must have Secret clearance at the time proposals are due. Please note that a potential Offeror named is required to possess the clearance. If the potential Offeror is a joint venture, partnership or other entity, that joint-venture, partnership, or entity must possess the clearance to be eligible. It is not acceptable for each company in the joint-venture, partnership, or entity to possess the clearance individually.

Include in your response the Facility Clearance Level (FCL) you currently hold.

2. Contractors positioned to access test and production systems must have Secret clearance with IT Systems Level I certification. In addition, Contractors performing IA functions on a DoD system must meet the certification requirements established in the DoD 8570.01-M for the category and level functions in which they are performing. Contractors must successfully obtain the appropriate DoD-approved IA baseline certification outlined in DoD 8570.01-M within six months of obtaining access to test or production server. Failure to obtain certification within required timeframe will result in loss of server access.

SOURCES SOUGHT:

The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this requirement is 541519, with the corresponding size standard of $34,000,000.

In order to make a determination for a small business set-aside, two or more qualified and capable small businesses must submit responses that demonstrate their qualifications. Responses must demonstrate the company’s ability to perform in accordance with FAR clause 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting.

To assist DISA in determining the level of participation by small business in any subsequent procurement that may result from this Sources Sought Notice, provide information regarding any plans to use joint ventures (JVs) or partnering. Please outline the company's areas of expertise and those of any proposed JV/partner who combined can meet the specific requirements contained in this notice.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Responses should include:

1) Business name and address;

2) Name of company representative and their business title;

3) Small Business Socio-economic status (if small);

4) CAGE Code;

5) Prime contract vehicles; to include ENCORE III, SETI, NIH CIO-SP3, NASA SEWP V, General Service Administration (GSA): OASIS, ALLIANT II, VETS II, STARS III, MAS (including applicable SIN(s), groups or pools), or any other Government Agency contract vehicle that allows for decentralized ordering. (This information is for market research only and businesses with a valid cage that lack prime contract vehicles are still encouraged to respond to this notice.)

6) Up to five pages that demonstrate how the respondents can meet the eight required capabilities listed above and the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS).

7) Potential key personnel with the minimum qualifications shown in Figure I of the PWS.

8) A summary of past performance references (within the last three years) and a brief explanation of how they are deemed relevant to the specific Task Areas of the proposed effort.

Businesses who wish to respond must send a response via email NLT 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on December 3, 2024 to daniel.g.limoges.civ@mail.mil and sarah.a.thacker2.civ@mail.mil.

Proprietary information and trade secrets, if any, must be clearly marked on all materials. All information received that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned. All government and contractor personnel reviewing submitted responses will have signed non-disclosure agreements and understand their responsibility for proper use and protection from unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information as pursuant to 41 USC 423. The Government shall not be held liable for any damages incurred if proprietary information is not properly identified.

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