SOURCES_SOUGHT.pdf

Sources Sought - HE1AA-I-13-0007 – Troux Software Development and Customization

SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS

Troux Software Development and Customization - HE1AA-I-13-0007

The General Services Administration’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify small businesses having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for Troux Software Development and Customization. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541511 for Custom Computer Programming Services.

THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred.

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform the contract services listed in Appendix 1, please provide the following information:

1) Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization

2) Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

3) Past performance record that supports the specifics of this effort, specifically development and customization of Troux software.

The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules;

cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET

RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OR

PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by

5:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time on August 13, 2013. All responses under this Sources

Sought Notice must be emailed to john.holmes@gsa.gov with the email subject “Troux SS - HE1AA-I-13-0007 – [Vendor name]”.

mailto:john.holmes@gsa.gov

Sources Sought - HE1AA-I-13-0007 – Troux Software Development and Customization

APPENDIX 1: Purpose and Objectives

GSA Interest in Small Businesses Capable of Providing Expert Technical Services in Troux Development Work

The Troux software is used to support the Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management functions in the GSA OCIO organization. It has also been adopted by the IT Security team to manage system inventories and other elements related to FISMA reporting. It is used to manage the IT Standards and the GSA applications inventory. GSA anticipates further adoption of Troux as a repositiory for IT related matters.

GSA is contemplating an acquisition that will allow us to customize the Troux software as new analysis and reporting requests arise. The acquisition will be for a base year plus three option years. The requirement is for "ad-hoc" development work for the Troux software. The government estimates that it will issue 33 task orders during the base year.

Development work will be managed on a task order basis. The following requirements apply.

a. Development work will be initiated with GSA issuing a specific set of requirements to the awardee. The requirements may include both textual descriptions and visual depictions of the desired products.

b. The awardee will provide GSA with an estimated level of effort to implement the delivered requirements. The level of effort should include both an optimistic and pessimistic number of estimated hours and should break the hours down among the following categories: requirements clarification; development; internal testing; and delivery.

c. The development work is likely to fall into three categories. The categories are listed below with the required skills.

i. Report Development - reports in Troux are built in two different platforms. One is the

BIRT platform. The other is the Flex framework. Along with strong skills using both platforms, the awardee must be proficient in both JavaScript and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Other competencies required are the development of Troux service objects that compliment reports, using BIRT reports to capture parameters that are passed to Flex visualizations, passing parameters to support drill-through reports, and developing new data mart tables in the Troux datamart.

ii. Access Bean Development - GSA uses the access bean layer of the Troux security solution to control write access to specific data objects in Troux. The awardee must be proficient in developing complex Access Beans using JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) expressions.

iii. Troux GUI Customization - create and modify Troux solutions and layouts using both the Configuration and Composer interfaces as well as XML customizations.