Capabilities Questionnaire - CEFMS II Maintenance and Modernization.docx

CAPABILITIES QUESTIONNAIRE

NOTE: Respond to all questions as completely as possible. Only provide answers for actions in which you are interested.

GENERAL QUESTIONS (all must be answered):

The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville (CEHNC) is issuing this request for information announcement to perform market research primarily to determine if firms possess the ability to execute the requirement for an anticipated formal solicitation.

This Request for Information (RFI) announcement is not a REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS/QUOTES, nor does it restrict the Government to a particular acquisition approach. Therefore, we request that you provide a capability statement in response to this RFI considering your interest in any of the actions mentioned in the announcement in Attachment 1. This announcement does not obligate the Government to award a contract, nor does it obligate the Government to pay for any preparation costs.

1. Business Name:

2. Business Address:

3. Cage Code:

4. List all NAICS codes your firm is registered under:

5. Responsible Point of Contact:

6. Check All That Apply: Our firm is a

7. Our firm anticipates performing one or more of these projects as a:

Sole Contractor Attachment 2

***For each of the questions below, provide the relevant contract information documenting your experience. Experience is “current” if it was gained within the last two years. Experience is “recent” if it was gained within the last five years.***

CEFMS MAINTENANCE (answer only if interested):

1. Describe your recent experience as a prime contractor in maintaining, enhancing, and administering a comprehensive Federal Financial Management system (FMS) to include the hardware and software architecture. Provide specific examples in support of your experience.

2. Describe current experience in development or modifications of a DoD financial management system to comply with DCMO Standard Financial Information Structure (SFIS) 10.1 data elements and business rules.

3. Describe current experience creating Standard Line of Accounting (SLOA) compliant interfaces with Federal financial management systems.

4. Describe your specific experience preparing, managing, and maintaining DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) documentation required for System Certification and Accreditation (C&A) for a complex enterprise system. Explain in detail your knowledge and experience with the RMF process.

5. Describe recent experience and provide examples of facilitating and supporting Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual (FISCAM) requirements of a comprehensive Core federal financial management system with third party auditors.

6. Describe in detail your experience in gathering monthly financial universe of transactions and other system data to support annual Chief Financial Officer (CFO) audit inquiries and maintaining historical tracking of all audit data submissions.

7. Describe in detail your experience in supporting Common Access Card (CAC)/Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology for a Federal Financial Management System.

8. Describe in detail your experience in the last five years of performing the following on a complex, enterprise-wide Federal financial management system using Oracle Database, Application servers, Web Servers, and host of Oracle applications in direct support of development, test, applications code, and data.

a. Oracle Database administration, design, and system engineering on a complex FMS comprised of multiple Oracle databases.

b. Configuring, tuning, maintaining, and upgrading multiple Oracle databases and application servers; includes the identification, correction, configuration, and upgrade of all Oracle Databases, configuration modifications based on regulatory requirements, database and system certification and accreditation policies, and overall design and operations of the architecture. Provide specific examples in support of your experience.

c. Providing training, testing, and user support of Oracle Database Design, programming modifications and standards.

9. Describe specific experience in the last five years in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the following. Provide specific examples in support of your experience:

a. Oracle WebLogic Server for Oracle Forms and Reports for Oracle

b. Oracle Reports Server

c. Oracle APEX

d. Oracle Analytics Server/OBIEE

e. Solaris 11, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2016 & 2019 to support Oracle application and database environments

10. Describe in detail recent experience in the development, maintenance, and programming of complex financial management business processes using Oracle Forms and Oracle APEX. Provide specific examples.

11. Describe current experience in the maintenance of Oracle SQR Reports and conversion of SQR to Oracle BI reports.

12. Describe your current experience in supporting a configuration management system utilizing PVCS version manager, Subversion (SVN), and Concurrent Version System (CVS).

13. What experience do you have with commercial cloud computing? Please answer questions below and provide specific examples for Yes responses.

a. Has your company migrated a major financial system with 35,000 plus users to cloud environment?

b. Has your company worked with DoD to migrate any system to the cloud?

c. Has your company completed an application failover to alternate physical site for disaster recovery?

d. Has your company worked with narrow margins of time to support migration from one network to another network due to business processes in the financial environment?

14. Does your staff meet the DoD 8570.1 Cyber Security Work Force requirements?

a. Employee background checks for privilege and nonprivileged users?

b. Do your employees have required security certification for IAT and IAM levels?

c. Do your employees have correct compute environment certificate for the work they are performing? For example, do DBAs have Oracle certification for DBA work?)

15. Explain your companies experience with the following plans

a. Migration Plan

b. Back out Plan

c. Disaster Recovery Plan

d. Cyber Security plan

e. Data Migration plan

f. System Testing Plan

g. Identity and Access Management Plan

h. Network Architecture Diagraming

i. Software License and life cycle

16. What experience does your company have with the following Oracle products?

a. Oracle Access Manager (OAM)

b. Oracle WebLogic Server

c. Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)

d. Oracle REST Data Services

e. Oracle Reports

f. Oracle Forms

g. Oracle Golden Gate

h. Oracle Database

i. Oracle Hyperion SQR Production Reporting

j. Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Suite

k. Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Profile and Audit

l. Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Standardization and Match

m. Oracle Analytics Server

n. Oracle Application Express (APEX)

o. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)

p. Oracle Data Integrator

q. DBSign

r. Multitenant for Oracle Database

s. Real Application Cluster

t. Partitioning

u. Advance Security

v. Database in Memory

w. Directory Service

x. Oracle Real Applications Testing

17. What experience does your company have with the following programming languages?

a. Oracle Forms, Reports and SQR

b. PL/SQL (Procedural Language for SQL)

c. Oracle Application Express (APEX)

d. Structured Query Language (SQL)

e. C++

f. Perl

g. JavaScript

18. Describe in detail your expert knowledge and experience of supporting a comprehensive, integrated DoD Transactional & Financial Management System that supports the End-to-End (E2E) Integration Framework and E2E business processes.

19. Describe in detail your subject matter expertise with DoD and US Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works financial management laws, regulations, policies, and generally accepted accounting standards.

20. Describe in detail your specialized knowledge and experience in providing financial management and transactional advisory services for defining and analyzing system requirements, proposing/reviewing design solutions, and recommending solutions for automation of process improvements.

21. Describe in detail your knowledge and direct experience in development or modifications of a DoD transactional and financial management system to comply with OMB and US Treasury USSGL proforma logic and rules.

22. Describe in detail and provide specific examples of your direct experience with Oracle imaging and process management to support capabilities in order to provide end to end document imaging that is imbedded within a financial transaction system, linking documentation at transactional level.

23. Describe your capabilities with regards to implementing a real-time failover and high availability solution for an enterprise Financial Transaction and Management System using Oracle database and application capabilities.

24. Describe your current experience in providing help desk support for a major complex financial enterprise application.