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* = Required Field FedBizOpps Sources Sought Notice Rev. March 2010 R MCSA SQL 2016 Database Development Training 80111 02-16-2018 N 611420 Department of Veterans Affairs Network Contracting Office

NCO 19

6162 South Willow Drive, Suite Greenwood Village CO 80111 Shelley Fitch Shelley.Fitch@va.gov Vendor's facility

USA

SOUCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS

This is a sources sought announcement ONLY and is NOT a request for proposals or quotes, although they may be submitted.

The purpose of this synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources and their socioeconomic size classification (Hubzone, 8(a), Small, Small Disadvantaged, Woman-Owned Small Business, Veteran-owned Small Business, Service-disabled Veteran-owned Small Business, or Large Business) relative to NAICS 611420.

Responses to this synopsis will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After review of the responses to this Sources Sought synopsis, a solicitation announcement may be published on FBO. Responses to this Sources Sought synopsis will not be considered to be responses to a future solicitation announcement.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Network Contracting Office 19, is seeking sources for a potential contract to provide Microsoft MCSA SQL 2016 Database Development and Certification onsite at vendor’s facility.

The intended contract period will be for the number of days required to fulfill the requirement.

This notice is neither a request for competitive proposals or a solicitation of offerors. This notice is to assist the VA in determining sources only and a solicitation is not currently available. Please reference the attached full announcement. Inquiries will only be accepted in writing via email to Shelley.Fitch@va.gov on or before February 16, 2018 at 5:00 PM EST.

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

The purpose of this synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources and their socioeconomic size classification (Hubzone, 8(a), Small, Small Disadvantaged, Woman-Owned, Veteran-owned Small Business, Service-disabled Veteran-owned Small Business, or Large Business) relative to NAICS 611420.

Responses to this synopsis will be used by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After review of the responses to this Sources Sought synopsis, a solicitation announcement may be published on FBO. Responses to this Sources Sought synopsis are not considered adequate responses to a future solicitation announcement.

The Department of Veterans Affair, Network Contracting Office 19, is seeking sources for a potential contract to provide the following:

DRAFT STATEMENT OF WORK (Subject to change) Title: Microsoft MCSA SQL 2016 Database Development and Certification

MCSA SQL 2016 Database Development Training & Certification offered onsite at the vendor’s facility.

Requirements:

- Courses:

20761 - Querying Data with Transact-SQL 20762 - Developing SQL Databases These courses should cover, at a minimum, the following topics:

a. Design and implement tables.

b. Describe advanced table designs

c. Ensure data integrity through constraints.

d. Describe indexes, including optimized and columnstore indexes

e. Design and implement views.

f. Design and implement stored procedures.

g. Design and implement user defined functions.

h. Respond to data manipulation using triggers.

i. Design and implement in-memory tables.

j. Implement managed code in SQL server.

k. Store and query XML data.

l. Work with spatial data.

m. Store and query blobs and text documents.

- Microsoft training materials for MCSA SQL 2016 database development

- Exams 70-761/70-762

- Microsoft official certification test vouchers

- Retake vouchers (1 per exam, if needed)

- Onsite testing

- Practice test resources for MCSA SQL 2016 Database Development

- Data center hosted high performance lab environment

Place of Performance: MCSA SQL 2016 Database Development Training & Certification shall take place onsite at the vendor’s facility.

Period of Performance: 04/05/2018 – 04/04/2019 (The exact number of days required in order to fulfill this requirement shall be established at time of award.)

In response to this announcement, please provide the information below:

Company Name:

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Select all that apply:

Small Business Small Disadvantaged Business Certified under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act HubZone Woman-owned Small Business Service-disabled Veteran-owned Small Business certified on www.vip.vetbiz.gov/ Veteran-owned Small Business certified on www.vip.vetbiz.gov/ If all blocks are left unselected, the vendor responding to this Sources Sought will be considered as an ‘Other Than Small Business’.

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This notice is neither a request for competitive proposals nor a solicitation of offers, and does not represent, constitute or imply a commitment on the part of the US Government. This notice is to assist the VA in determining sources only and a solicitation is not currently available. If a solicitation is issued, it will be announced at a later date and all interested parties must respond to that solicitation announcement separately from this response.

Responses to this Sources Sought will not be considered as requests to be added to a prospective bidders list or to receive a copy of the solicitation. Information received as a result of this notice will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. This notice does not represent, constitute or imply a commitment by the US Government to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission of information in response to this Sources Sought, or to pay any other costs incurred as a result of or given rise to by responding to this announcement.

Inquiries and responses will be accepted via email to Shelley.Fitch@va.gov on or before February 16, 2018 5:00 PM EST.

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