GRAMS_Pre-Solicitation_Notice-Final.pdf

Pre‐solicitation Synopsis‐ Governance, Requirements, and Architecture Management Support

(GRAMS)

The solicitation associated with this notice will not be available until APPROXIMATELY 15 DAYS from the date of this notice. Contractors should not contact the Contract Specialist or

Contracting Officer seeking the solicitation or information relating to the solicitation as it will not be available until APPROXIMATELY 15 DAYS after this notice.

The Defense Health Agency – Requirement Management Office (DHA‐RMO) has a requirement to obtain contract support services to assist the DHA and the Military Health System in the following program management support areas:

• Requirements development and management processes;

• Military Health System (MHS) IM/IT investment and sustainment portfolio capabilities activities;

• Functional requirements submissions and management;

• Development and management of MHS IM/IT functional requirements;

• Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) process and documentation;

• Post Implementation Reviews;

• Requirements reviews during IT lifecycle acquisition phases;

• Business Process strategies and guidelines;

• Business Process and data management products;

• Business Process and standards analysis;

• Business Process Improvement;

• Federal and External partner architectural analysis and alignment;

• Health Information Technology (HIT) standards;

• Health Data management;

• Modeling and simulation; and

• Requirements Tools

This acquisition will be solicited using full & open competition utilizing Federal Acquisition

Regulation (FAR) Part 15, contracting by negotiation procedures, pursuant to FAR Part 12, Commercial Items. All qualified companies may submit a bid proposal, which shall be considered by the agency.

The Government’s intent is to award a firm‐fixed price contract, with award anticipated on or about October 1, 2015, utilizing a Performance Work Statement (PWS). Governance, Requirement, Architecture and Management Support (GRAMS) acquisition provides for a basic contract effort of a base period of twelve months with four additional twelve month option periods. NAICS code for this requirement is 541512 – Computer Systems Design Services.

Any interested Contractor must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov. Any prospective offeror’s SAM registration must include the applicable NAICS code 541512 for this acquisition.

The due date and time for submission of proposals will be specified in the solicitation. The solicitation will be available on or before February 09, 2015. Offerors shall be responsible for monitoring the website for amendments to the solicitation until it closes. The RFP must be retrieved and downloaded from FedBizOpps at www.fbo.gov. No hard copies of the RFP will be issued. All amendments will be posted and must be retrieved from this website. No solicitation mailing list will be compiled. Hand‐delivered and mailed submissions of proposals will not be accepted. Proposals must be sent electronically via email submission no later than the date and time specified in the solicitation.