Sources_Sought_Notice_-_Final.pdf

Sources Sought

Sources Sought Number: HQ0034-19-R-0091

Agency/Office: Washington Headquarters Services/Acquisition Directorate

Customer: Defense Acquisition University (DAU)/Foundational Learning Directorate (FLD)

Title: Learning Assets and Systems Program Support (LASPS)

Location: Fort Belvoir, VA and Contractor Facilities

Customer Description: The Defense Acquisition University (DAU), located at Fort Belvoir (Virginia), coordinates the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition education and training program to meet the training and performance support requirements for over 163,000 military and civilian personnel serving in acquisition positions worldwide. Through its dispersed campus, the DAU provides a full range of basic, intermediate, and advanced courses to support the career goals and professional development of the acquisition workforce.

Background/Overview: DAU executes the development and delivery of products and services across the enterprise through the Acquisition Learning Model (ALM). The ALM consists of three primary areas, including:

• Formal Certification and Continuous Learning

• Workflow Learning through Job Support Tools & Knowledge Sharing

• Performance Learning through mission-specific consulting

DAU continually modernizes learning assets, performs process improvement activities, and increases its delivery capabilities to improve effectiveness and efficiency to ensure its training is congruent with the policy, mission, and occupational needs of the community it serves.

DAU utilizes several systems in accomplishing its training mission. Systems include Composica, Cornerstone on Demand, and Blackboard.

WHS/AD is seeking capability statements of your company’s ability to perform the requirements described in the key requirements section below. Please provide an example of each of the following in relation to a critical task area in your response:

a. Experience working with concurrent projects in difference stages of their lifecycle.

Provide an example of your company’s Program Management Support and how your company tracked, provided data analysis, reporting, and recommendations to the customer you supported. Examples should include other federal agencies or commercial entities that are similar in nature to DAU.

b. Experience dealing with diverse customers and stakeholders in relation to managing Independent Verification and Validation (V&V) tasks and Systems Support tasks, including help desk tickets

c. Experience with solving a problem for a government agency related to systems support and learning asset Independent Verification and Validation that mitigated risk or saved the customer time or money.

Responses from all sources are requested including small businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, HUBZone small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses, and women-owned small businesses. A contract is anticipated to be awarded in late May 2019 with a base period and four (4), twelve (12) month option periods. The anticipated contract type will be Firm Fixed Price (FFP) with a Cost CLIN for travel and Other Direct Costs.

Security Clearance: A Secret Clearance level eligibility will be required for some of the personnel working under the contract. The Secret Clearance level is to be maintained for the duration of contract performance.

Prime or Subcontract: Is it your intention to prime or subcontract on this requirement?

NAICS recommendation: The current contract is under NAICS 541512 - Computer Systems Design Service. Based on the information provided, which NAICS code would best fit the requirement?

GSA schedule: Does your company currently hold a GSA schedule, if so, please provide the contract number.

1. Please provide the following Point of Contact information:

Company:

Address:

Point of Contact:

Phone Number:

Fax Numbers:

Email Address:

DUNS Number:

CAGE Code:

Business Size and Classification (Large Business, Small Business, 8(a), Woman- Owned/Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned, Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), Veteran-Owned, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned):

Submission Requirements: All responses should be submitted via e-mail to douglas.j.boorstein.civ@mail.mil and copy stephanie.l.hoffman10.civ@mail.mil at 4:30 p.m. on 1 February 2019. Please no phone calls. Only attach MS Word/Excel compatible files or Adobe Acrobat PDF files in electronic correspondence no more than five pages. WHS will not acknowledge receipt of responses to this SOURCES SOUGHT.

There is a maximum page limitation of five typed pages that are single spaced using 12 point Times New Roman font, within an 8.5 by 11 inch page size. No hard copy or facsimile mailto:douglas.j.boorstein.civ@mail.mil submissions will be accepted. Cover letters and extraneous materials (brochures, etc.) will not be considered.

Disclaimer and Important Notes. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise reimburse your company for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization’s qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.

Points of Contact:

Stephanie L. Hoffman Douglas J. Boorstein Contract Specialist Contracting Officer stephanie.l.hoffman10.civ@mail.mil douglas.j.boorstein.civ@mail.mil

Elizabeth A. Harrington Small Business Professional elizabeth.a.harrington43.civ@mail.mil

(703) 545-0595