AMDTC-20-0001_Amendment_002.pdf

The purpose of this amendment is to respond to questions received and extend the due date for responses.

The due date is hereby extended through November 7, 2019 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The questions received and NIST’s responses follow below.

Questions and Answers

Question 1: What specific task orders are likely to be issued (by task order subject)?

Answer 1: NIST cannot definitively provide such a list at this time. The following list of task order titles are simply examples of potential projects. They are not indicative of actual requirements that NIST can commit to issuing task orders for. Task orders may be issued for any projects within the scope of the anticipated IDIQ contracts.

• Test Case Authoring and Management Tool Development and Production (TCAMT, Release 3) & Implementation Guide Authoring and Management Tool Development and Production (IGAMT, Release 3)

• Test Tool Development for Medical Device Communication Terminology and Message Validation and Conformance

• NIST Testing Infrastructure Requirements and Design & Verification Rules

• NIST Immunization Data Analysis and Forecast Testing

• Web Site Build and Medical Device Terminology, Information Model, and Message Validation and Conformance Testing

Question 2: What specific deliverables are anticipated (by subject)?

Answer 2: Please reference the Draft Statement of Work.

Question 3: Is the purpose of this project to implement a new database application system or to provide support (i.e. management team, talents) to manage an existing database system?

Answer 3: The software systems and applications have a core components database system (i.e., inherent to the test systems). Additionally, the medical device task includes a database system of medical device nomenclature known as the Rosetta Terminology Mapping Management System (RTMMS) in which the web interface pulls and pushes from a database system.

Question 4: What database systems/vendors (e.g Oracle, Microsoft, MondoDB, etc.) and their versions?

Answer 4: SQL and MongoDB; versions unknown at this point.

Question 5: Is NIST looking to make archive data available in the public domain? What does the hosting environment look like? Is NIST looking to migrate these archive data and decommission the in-house environment? What is the size of the data in question? What type of data: relational/non-relational DBs, hot/cold storage, archive tape?

Answer 5: All work performed and resultant output is publicly and freely available. Regarding the Rosetta Terminology Mapping Management System (RTMMS), NIST has a Royalty Free Agreement with IEEE Standards Association which allows any user to access (view or download) specific parts of the 11073 Nomenclature (-10101). The environment is a web interface that pulls and pushes data to a normalized database. NIST reserves the right to migrate this information in the future (to perhaps other Government Agencies known for housing such data). It is anticipated that, within the scope of the Royalty Free Agreement with IEEE, application programming interfaces will be developed to enable other application/users access to the data. The RTMMS database will likely house a relatively small amount of data – approximately 11,000 IEEE medical device terms, and other focused terminology attributes based on these base terms. The RTMMS database will be a relational and normalized database with backup information stored on computer hard drives.

Regarding data and information storage for the ‘Test Framework’ - test artifacts, such as HL7 Value Sets, Data Types, Implementation Guides, Test Cases, etc. are to be stored in the test infrastructure relational databases which is accessed and written through other parts of the Infrastructure such as web based IGAMT, TCAMT, and GVT tools. Again, all information shall be freely and publicly available (working closely with the appropriate standards development organizations). It is anticipated that information is stored on hard drives in a virtual server type environment with essentially three environments – development, test/pre-production, and production.

Question 6: Is NIST looking for those businesses (GSA, etc.) that had prior experiences with Government agencies or would you consider working with new businesses?

Answer 6: As described within the Sources Sought Notice, the purpose of the notice is for market research purposes only. As further described, NIST is seeking to identify small business concern sources capable of providing the services described in the Draft Statement of Work.