ADS Pre-Solicitation Notice.docx

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Pre-Solicitation Notice The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) intends to post a solicitation for Information Technology (IT) architecture and design services.

1. ANTICIPATED solicitation scope The contractor shall provide support for all elements within enterprise architecture including but not limited to architecture governance, framework, methodology, artifacts, standards, analysis, and defining and tracking transitions from current to future state. The contractor shall also support the FDIC with developing and maintaining IT/business roadmaps, conducting business analysis, analyzing and prototyping emerging technology, maintaining the FDIC technical reference model, optimizing and managing cloud cost, designing platform architecture for low code/no code cloud platforms, maintaining enterprise architecture tools, and managing the FDIC business application inventory. For additional background information on the IT architecture and design services, please see section 4 of this notice.

2. ANTICIPATED Evaluation PROCESS and RESULTING CONTRACT FDIC anticipates awarding a single contract resulting from the forthcoming solicitation, which will include two proposal and evaluation phases and leverage an advisory down-select process.

This resulting contract’s period of performance is anticipated to be a 12-month base period beginning approximately January 1, 2025, with four (4) 12-month option periods; with work to be performed at the FDIC facilities, or at Contractor facilities, either on-site or remotely within the United States.

3. Additional information This notice is not a solicitation, a request for proposal (RFP), request for quote (RFQ), nor an invitation for bid (IFB). This notice does not guarantee that a solicitation for this anticipated contract action will be issued and does not guarantee, implied or otherwise, that a contract will be awarded for this anticipated contract action.

The FDIC strongly encourages the participation of Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Businesses (MWOBs) in this solicitation. Contractors are also encouraged to evaluate their capabilities and other industry capabilities, should they to choose to partner, against the technical scope described in this notice.

The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541519 - Other Computer Related Services, and the small business size standard for this requirement is $19 million. It is highly encouraged that any business meeting this size standard and desiring to be considered for award be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) using this NAICS code. It should be noted that offerors must be registered in SAM prior to submission of a proposal in response to FDIC’s forthcoming solicitation. For additional information and to register in SAM, please access the following web site: https://sam.gov. In order to register with the SAM, all offerors must also have a unique entity identifier through https://sam.gov/content/entity-registration.

Solicitation documents are anticipated to be made available for download on or about August 2, 2024, at https://sam.gov . Paper copies of this solicitation will not be issued. Interested parties may use the “follow” feature to monitor changes to this notice, including Request for Proposal (RFP) posting as well as all postings of information associated with this solicitation thereafter. Each potential offeror is responsible for checking https://sam.gov to gain all current information related to the solicitation. The solicitation and any further announcements regarding the solicitation will be posted at https://sam.gov . The date offers are due will be stated within the solicitation documents as applicable.

All questions of any nature regarding this procurement should be sent via email to Contract Specialist, Brittany Helmkamp at bhelmkamp@fdic.gov.

4. FDIC ARCHITECURE AND DESIGN SECTION (ADS) SUpport – background information The Architecture and Design Section (ADS) of the FDIC Chief Information Officer Organization (CIOO) is responsible for informing the process of acquiring, building, modifying, and interfacing IT resources throughout the FDIC. In addition, the ADS is responsible for identifying and articulating the need for change in how FDIC invests in IT at present and in the coming years, as well as facilitating that change. The ADS also provides other enterprise architecture services to the Corporation such as:

· Defining the current state and future/target state architectures;

· Developing strategy;

· Designing solution architectures, creating prototypes and implementing reference applications;

· Conducting analysis and research; and

· Providing governance to achieve the target state.

ADS Mission ADS prepares the FDIC for the future by developing and managing architectural targets and standards and informing IT investment decisions.

Values Provided to the FDIC

· Define the technology footprint in collaboration with IT and business leaders

· Spearhead IT innovation to meet current and future business needs

· Research emerging trends for adoption in FDIC’s environment

· Define transition plans for realizing the target state of IT

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