Presolicitation notice FBO.doc

Solicitation Number:

AVT0011300

Notice Type:

Presolicitation

Date of Issue:

December 29, 2010 Synopsis:

RECOVERY--THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. THIS OPPORTUNITY IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO CONTRACTORS UNDER GSA’S MOBIS SCHEDULE CONTRACT.

The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB) is tasked with supporting the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA or the Recovery Act). As specified by the Recovery Act, the RATB was established to coordinate and conduct oversight of funds distributed under ARRA in order to identify fraud, waste, abuse, and/or mismanagement. The RATB includes a Chairman, appointed by the President, and 12 Inspectors General (IG) with authority to provide oversight and promote transparency of the expenditure of funds at all levels of government. This procurement is an effort by the RATB to help improve the accountability part of its mission.

OBJECTIVES: To enhance analytics efforts, the RATB seeks a predictive scoring model that indicates risk of fraudulent activities. That solution should:

1. Identify a set of characteristics, which, based on mathematical analysis or some other logical methodology, are statistically proven to correlate to fraudulent activities.

2. Use these identified characteristics and tools to calculate a fraud risk score that provides a meaningful basis for comparison of entities and fraud analysis.

3. Implement, manage, and maintain a system that automates the calculation of above mentioned fraud risk score and provides analytical, operational, and managerial tools for a fraud risk scoring system.

4. Ensure the results of that scoring model can be easily enveloped into the RATB’s analysis platform.

Estimated solicitation issue date is on or about Monday, January 3, 2010. Proposals are anticipated to be due on or about February 10, 2010, and contractor input will be required as soon as January 21, 2010. The Government does not anticipate conducting a Pre-Proposal Conference. The solicitation will be a competitive acquisition based on a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract type with optional periods of performance. There will be no public bid opening. Responses to questions emailed to the below Point of Contacts regarding this acquisition will be posted as practicable.

This opportunity is available ONLY to contractors who are listed on the GSA MOBIS Schedule Contract. This procurement shall be conducted using competitive procedures. Please note that to be eligible for award of this project prospective contractors must be registered in Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and have completed and maintained current their Online Representations and Certifications (ORCA) (both can be linked to at www.bpn.gov) prior to closing date of offer.

This is not a request for competitive proposals, nor is a solicitation available. This notice is provided for “informational purposes only” under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Contracting Office Address:

U.S. General Services Administration, Enterprise GWAC Center-Southwest GSA, Federal Acquisition Service

819 Taylor Street, Rm 7A37

Ft. Worth, TX 76102

Place of Performance:

TBD

Point of Contact(s):

Valerie.Bindel@GSA.gov and Todd.Richards@GSA.gov