Data Management and Governance Support - Sources Sought Announcement.pdf

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SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE

Tracking Number: 632469116

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking sources for data management and governance support in the DISA Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO).

CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS:

Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization National Capital Region, PS63, P.O.

Box 549, Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-0549.

INTRODUCTION:

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT to determine the availability and technical capability of small businesses (including the following subsets, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Certified 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, HUBZone Small Businesses and Woman Owned Small Businesses) to provide the required products and/or services.

This requirement is derived from the Department of Defense (DoD) mission directive mandating the DISA Chief Data Officer (CDO) and the broader DISA community to utilize data as a strategic asset. The DISA Chief Data Officer’s primary role is to ensure that timely high-quality data is available to internal and external stakeholders to fulfill mission requirements. The DISA Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO) is responsible for setting the vision and goals for change, and providing the enabling architecture, standards, governance, and inform DISA-wide talent management plans that will empower DISA organizations and the systems they operate to leverage and act upon quality data at speed and scale. As such, they maintain and update the strategic framework for ensuring DISA data is secure, visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable, and secure with and across every function, mission area, and domain of operations to deliver decision advantage. DISA OCDO works in collaboration with strategic partners to leverage data to support, enhance and execute the mission. They partner with appropriate analytic organizations to conduct unique use cases, peer review, programmatic development, and technological assessments to provide capabilities that inform the decision-making process and enable data-driven decisions.

The DISA OCDO is seeking information for potential sources for support to use data to derive business and operations outcomes. This influence will come through agency wide governance, policy creation and exploitation of data. The OCDO’s areas of focus are to:

• Define the DISA Data Implementation Plan to comply with the overarching DoD CDO Data Strategy.

• Evolve the use of DISA data into actionable information that will drive decisions and value for the Agency.

• Stand up and/or support DISA OCDO Community of Excellence and the DISA Data Catalog effort.

• Work closely with all DISA directorates and programs and provide guidance for data use across the Agency. Create a joint data effort across, but not limited to the following:

JFHQ-DoDIN, Development and Business Center (DBC), and Operation Center (OC).

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The anticipated Period of Performance is one (1) base year plus four (4) 12-month option years.

The base period is anticipated to be September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2025.

The anticipated mission location is the DISA facility located on Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-0549. The anticipated place of performance will be at the contractor’s facility or alternate work site (telework/remote work) for unclassified work. Classified work must be conducted at a DISA site within the Continental United States.

DISCLAIMER:

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS

IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION

AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT.

RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER

NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS NOTICE. NO

FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS

NOTICE. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS IS STRICTLY

VOLUNTARY.

CONTRACT/PROGRAM BACKGROUND:

Contract Number: 47QTCB21D0164 HC104721F2108 Contract Vehicle: GSA 8(a) STARS III Incumbent and their size: Dine Source, Small Business Method of previous acquisition: Direct 8(a) Period of performance: September 30, 2021 –September 29, 2024

DISA has a need to maintain an OCDO to manage data as a strategic asset and to create, implement and maintain an overall data management strategy. These high-level objectives reflect the need for improving and establishing organizational data quality, standardization, integrity, availability, accessibility, usability, and sharing best practices at an enterprise level, to ultimately improve decision making throughout the agency.

This shall be done in a way that maintains a formal data governance steering committee and working groups, data quality and data management/governance policies, an enterprise-wide data asset inventory, business glossary, data maturity model and strategy, developing an authoritative data source registry, governance, and approval process, metadata, and master data management, the DISA Data Catalog, and a self-service data analytics environment.

The purpose of this contract will be to obtain contracted subject matter expert support to advise on and/or perform data preparation and architecture, development of agile algorithmic solutions, evaluate and/or execute data governance and data maturity models; create data policy framework and conduct a framework assessment and create data catalog structure; and evaluate and advise on enterprise data platforms, data metadata management, and data analytics.

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REQUIRED CAPABILITIES:

1) DISA OCDO must provide a scalable technical architecture which will enable consumption of prepared datasets by the analytical and systems development communities. Describe and provide examples of your company’s experience identifying hardware (physical, virtual, hypervisor, containers, lambda or other serverless functions), software, tools, and applications related to developing a data service enterprise technical architecture, as well as leveraging artifacts produced by data originators, system owners, data preparation teams, and data modeling and documentation teams to maximize effectiveness of exposed datasets.

2) DISA OCDO must develop relationships with data originators and systems owners to acquire and/or connect to operational systems for data analysis purposes. Describe and provide examples of your company’s experience facilitating procedures and agreements between data originators, system owners, CDO, and authorized consumers, producing technical justification for product acquisition, communicating data extraction/movement standards, and extracting data sources from source databases and authoritative data sources.

3) DISA OCDO must transform data from its raw form into a format ready for consumption by the analytical and systems development communities in both cloud and on-premises environments while complying with the Federal OPEN Data Act. Describe and provide examples of your company’s experience automating data feeds using industry standard tools, as well as tagging data and metadata, developing data export standards, creating data quality applications and business rules, munging/wrangling data in support of machine learning tools, and performing advanced extract-transform-load activities to maximize dataset exploitability.

4) DISA OCDO must evaluate new data science and analytics products and vendor frameworks for relevance and usability/insertion into DISA’s data environment.

Describe and provide examples of your company’s experience developing data-centric use-cases.

5) DISA OCDO must provide complex analysis of multiple data sets across a diverse range of mission functional areas in order to improve effectiveness in operations and support data-driven decisions. Describe and provide examples of your company’s experience developing dynamic visualizations.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Must have Secret Facility Clearance. Please provide your current Facility Clearance Level.

SOURCES SOUGHT: The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this requirement is 541519, with the corresponding size standard of $30,000,000.00.

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In order to make a determination for a small business set-aside, two or more qualified and capable small businesses must submit responses that demonstrate their qualifications.

Responses must demonstrate the company’s ability to perform in accordance with FAR clause 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting.

To assist DISA in determining the level of participation by small business in any subsequent procurement that may result from this Sources Sought Notice, provide information regarding any plans to use joint ventures (JVs) or partnering. Please outline the company's areas of expertise and those of any proposed JV/partner who combined can meet the specific requirements contained in this notice.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Responses should include:

1) Business name and address;

2) Name of company representative and their business title;

3) Small Business Socio-economic status (if small);

4) CAGE Code;

5) Prime contract vehicles; to include ENCORE III, SETI, NIH CIO-SP4, NASA SEWP V, General Service Administration (GSA): OASIS, ALLIANT II, VETS II, STARS III, MAS (including applicable SIN(s), groups or pools), or any other Government Agency contract vehicle that allows for decentralized ordering. (This information is for market research only and businesses with a valid cage that lack prime contract vehicles are still encouraged to respond to this notice.)

Businesses who wish to respond must send a response via email NLT 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on April 12, 2024 to: Carol Craig (Contract Specialist) at Carolyn.n.craig.civ@mail.mil and Todd Nace (Contracting Officer) at Todd.r.nace.civ@mail.mil. Interested businesses should submit a brief capabilities statement package addressing the specific questions above (no more than five pages) demonstrating the ability to perform the services listed under Required Capabilities. Interested businesses that do not submit a brief capabilities statement package addressing the specific questions above will not be reviewed. Capabilities statement packages exceeding five pages will only have their first five pages reviewed.

Proprietary information and trade secrets, if any, must be clearly marked on all materials. All information received that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned. All government and contractor personnel reviewing submitted responses will have signed non-disclosure agreements and understand their responsibility for proper use and protection from unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information as pursuant to 41 USC 423. The Government shall not be held liable for any damages incurred if proprietary information is not properly identified.

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