CrMS Support Services RFI.pdf

WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS SERVICES

ACQUISITION DIRECTORATE

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY

Title: Competency Requirements Management System (CrMS) Support Services for Defense Acquisition University

NAICS Code: 541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services

Product Service Code: R408 Support-Professional

Request for Information Post Date: Monday, July 11, 2022

Request for Information Response Due Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

1.0 REQUEST FOR INFORMAITON NOTICE

To facilitate market research, the Government is looking to identify qualified firms under the above North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code. This notice seeks capability statements to assist the Government in identifying capable firms.

This Request for Information is for information and planning purposes only and shall NOT be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Government. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in the response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by firms for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate.

Any firm responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the firm’s qualifications to perform the work.

The Government will not reimburse respondents for any costs incurred in the preparation of a response to this Notice.

2.0 BACKGROUND

The mission of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) is to provide a global learning environment to develop qualified acquisition, requirements and contingency professionals who deliver and sustain effective and affordable warfighting capabilities.

Defense Acquisition Workforce members must meet functional area (career field) certification standards as required by U.S. Code Title 10 Chapter 87 and established by the Functional Area Leaders (FALs) through DoD regulatory guidance. Defense Acquisition Workforce members must also engage in continuous learning activities to remain competent in their functional specialties and broaden their understanding and experience with the other acquisition functional areas. The foundation of the functional area certification standards and the DoD continuous learning program is foundational and practitioner training.

The acquisition FALs determine the competencies required for successful performance as an acquisition professional in the specified functional area. Based on the required competencies, DAU designs, develops, and delivers learning assets to support the development of the acquisition professional. DAU Directive 700 (Learning Asset Management Program) requires a comprehensive and unified competency-driven approach to DAU curriculum management.

The Production, Coordination and Optimization (PCO) Directorate within DAU is responsible for the initial design, integration of decentralized development of learning assets to ensure the competency of the acquisition workforce with minimal redundancies between and within learning assets. PCO manages the functional competencies models and the linkages between the required competencies and the DAU learning assets designed to develop those competencies.

PCO executed a deployment of a competency and learning asset management database to manage the functional area competency models, DAU learning assets, and the linkages between the competencies and learning assets. Referred to as the CrMS, this database has successfully demonstrated capabilities such as: bi-directional requirements traces between workforce Competency Models and DAU learning assets; the ability to perform gap analyses; and the ability to search across competencies, learning assets and generate reports. Learning asset data for DAU training courses as well as competency model data comprise the set of data resident in the CrMS.

3.0 OBJECTIVE

The objective of this Notice is to obtain information to identify firms capable of providing CrMS support services for DAU.

4.0 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

The contractor will work in both Government operated in the National Capital Region (on-site) and contractor-operated workspace (off-site).

6.0 TASK AREAS FOR SUPPORT SERVICES

Interested firms submitting a response to this Notice are requested to provide enough information to determine capability to fully address the following three (3) Task Areas in their capabilities statement. Interested parties are requested NOT to submit marketing materials; but rather, speak directly and specifically to the required tasks areas outlined below:

Area 1: BASIC SERVICES

DAU requires the contractor to provide operations and maintenance support to ensure continuity of daily operations to include software maintenance, database and quality assurance support of CrMS. The contractor shall code the application, provide testing and quality assurance;

demonstrate completed enhancements and capability to interoperate with selected DAU business systems and assists with deployment within the DAU infrastructure.

Area 2: Non-Phased Tasks

• Provide interface support between Source Systems, DAU data warehouse, DAI, and DAU’s

Business Intelligence tool. Program/Project Management. Implement standard project management functions to include cost, schedule and performance reports that reflect progress on CrMS development and to enable proactive identification and resolution of problems as well as recap meetings, action items completed and the status of pending action item. A project management plan shall be updated as required, and reviewed not less than quarterly in conjunction with In-Progress Reviews.

• Technical Maintenance and Management. Implement standard system maintenance management practices in order to provide assistance to users on a periodic basis, execute minor system changes/updates, corrections and modifications that do not impact the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) but may include the addition of new fields to existing tables.

Inclusive of this task is the preparation of DAU required documents to effect the implementation of updated software and correcting system vulnerabilities discovered in the process by DAU.

• Coordinating and conducting usability, functionality and quality assurance testing before and after new deployments to the DAU IT network. Correcting system vulnerabilities discovered by DAU Chief Information Officer (CIO) and corrected satisfactory addressed and accepted by the DAU CIO.

Area 3: Phased Tasks

• Integrate CrMS with other DAU operational systems to gain data efficiencies.

• Institute autocomplete filter capability for all data fields.

• Implement customizable reports to include Heat Map Report for learning asset objectives, blooms level frequency, etc.

• Relook and apply consistent filter options to the all current canned reporting.

• Provide dashboard capability of learning asset categories by annual review status and allow dashboard output in a .pdf/excel and ppt format.

• Develop a system capability to identify and integrate (adopt) into a functional/knowledge area competency model, the competencies and/or sub competencies from one or more other models in order to create a holistic model for a given functional/knowledge area with asset dependencies.

• Implement a system capability to integrate cross-functional functional area and knowledge area models.

6.0 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Interested firms should respond by submitting a capability statement covering technical capabilities. The information provided should address your capability to fulfill the areas above and demonstrate how the firm’s recent past performance (last 3 years) is relevant including the dollar value, period of performance, size and scope of the firm’s prior contracts.

CONFIDENTIALITY: Do not include proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information in your response to this Request for Information Notice. The Government reserves the right to use any information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate, including using technical information provided by respondents in any resultant solicitation. Responses to this Notice will not be returned.

7.0 CAPABILITY STATEMENTS

Vendors must demonstrate their ability to comply with the requirements in this Request for Information in order to be considered capable of satisfying the Government’s requirement.

There is a maximum page limitation of six (6) typed pages using 12 inch Times New Roman font within an 8.5 x 11 inches page size. Cover letters and extraneous materials (brochures, general capabilities statements, etc.) will not be reviewed. No hard copy or facsimile submissions will be accepted.

To facilitate a timely and comprehensive review of all submitted responses, firms must respond using the format requested in this Notice. ANY deviation from this format may lead to the rejection of the response.

Interested firms shall submit their response to include requested information in the following order:

General Information:

1. Company name, address, point of contact name, telephone, and email address.

2. Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number and Commercial and Government

Entity (CAGE) Code

3. Business size and classification (e.g., large, small, small-disadvantaged, SBA Certified 8(a), HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned) based on NAICS: 541511

4. If applicable, potential proposed teaming arrangements to include business size and classification of prime and subcontractors; or joint venture

Technical Capability:

1. Provide information to support the firm’s ability to perform all of the three (3) task areas identified in Section 5.0. Identify each task area and provide information to support the firm’s experience and overall ability to perform the technical areas.

2. A brief synopsis of Corporate Experience & Past Performance Information for similar contracts and/or projects accomplished within the last 3 years.

• Evidence must include where, when, and for whom each similar contract and/or project was performed,

• Description of each contract/project/task orders, including the size, scope, dollar value, and period of performance, similar in scope.

• Identify if your company has any pre-existing contract vehicles, the contract number for similar services and expiration dates.

• Government point of contact to include: name, phone number, and emails of individuals who can verify the demonstrated capabilities identified in the responses.

6. Documented information to support the firm’s ability to provide the personnel required for this effort in a timely fashion who are eligible to work in the United States and have the ability to work within 100 miles of the National Capital Region (NCR).

7. Provide any data on previous contracts/task orders on personnel retention.

Additional Information:

1. Indicate whether your firm will submit a proposal if a Request for Quote (RFQ) is issued, and whether your firm’s interest is for prime contracting; teaming agreement, or joint venture.

2. Validate or Recommend NAICS codes for this effort.

3. Validate or Recommend Contract type for this effort.

4. Other recommendations, comments or questions will be received for market research purposes, but no responses will be returned.

8.0 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All responses to this Request for Information must be submitted electronically to Mr. Lamont Joy, Contract Specialist at darrell.l.joy2.civ@mail.mil. Responses to this Request for Information notice are due no later than July 21, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Capability statements received after this date and time will not be considered.

The subject of the email must be titled “Request for Information: CrMS Support Services for DAU - <Name of Your Firm>”.

No questions or phone calls will be accepted concerning this Request for Information. All firms responding to this Request for Information are advised the Government will not provide or acknowledge receipt of the information received, provide feedback to firms with respect to any information submitted, or provide any follow-up information well after the deadline of this sources sought notice.