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SOURCES SOUGHT

FOR

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

BOLA NOTICES

2032H5-24-N-00013 (7000004340)

1. Purpose

This Sources Sought Notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation for bids, quotes, or proposals. This Notice does not obligate the Government to solicit for this requirement or award and does not obligate the Government to reimburse interested parties for any cost incurred to prepare or provide a response to this source sought Notice.

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. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this Notice. Respondents will not be notified of the results of this evaluation.

2. Background The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code proposed for the requirement is 541511, Computer Systems Design Services. The size standard for NAICS 541511 is $50M. Comments on this NAICS and suggestions for alternatives must include supporting rationale. The PSC that is intended for this acquisition is DA10.

No decision has yet been made regarding the small business strategy for this acquisition. The Government is interested in determining whether small businesses are capable of performing the requirement at a fair market price. The Government requests that interested parties submit a brief description of their company's business, business size (i.e. annual gross revenue for the prior three (3) years), business status (i.e., 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses, small or large business). Small businesses are advised that FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, would apply wherein at least 51 percent of the work must be performed by the small business prime contractor.

Please see the attached Draft Performance Work Statement for a more thorough description of the overview, objectives and scope of work.

3. White Paper The Government requests that all interested parties submit a statement of capability statement in the format of a White Paper outlining past work that is related to this requirement. The Government will use this information in determining its small business set-aside decision. The White Paper should be concise and address only information requested below (title pages, cover letter, etc., will not count against the page limit). The company's standard format is acceptable; however, the limit for all responses is not to exceed five (5) single-sided, 10 font size, 8 ½ x 11-inch pages.

The statement of capability shall include:

· Company Information: Contractor Name, Address, POC name and email address, CAGE code, DUNS number, and business size (for small business include socioeconomic status); if business size varies depending

· List of the company’s Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) and Best In Class (BIC) contract vehicles under which this requirement could be awarded. Provide name of contract vehicle and contract number.

· Anticipated teaming or subcontracting arrangements (delineate between work accomplished by prime and work accomplished by teaming partners)

· Responses to the questions below about the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS):

1. Please provide three corporate experiences with at least one corporate experience as a prime contractor providing services in similar size, scope, and complexity to the enclosed Performance Work Statement.

2. Does your organization have examples of previous engagements of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Full configuration implementations per scaledagileframework.com with a similar complexity (combined government and contractor teams)? Y|_| N|_| If “Yes” Summarize a maximum of two (2).

3. How many SAFe implementations has your organization accomplished in the past 5 years?

4. How many project has your organization supported developing notices, letters and forms to print and Section-508 compliant digital output formats using OpenText Exstream software in the past 5 years? .

5. How many project has your organization supported migrating notices, letters and forms from the Opentext xPression document composition software tool set to OpenText’s next generation Exstream document composition tool set in print and Section-508 compliant digital formats in the past 5 years? .

6. How many projects has your organization supported conducting Section-508 validation for compliancy utilizing assistive technology tools (JAWS, ZoomText, Dragon, etc.) in the past 5 years?

7. How many projects has your organization supported or had experience developing and/or maintain Microservices?

8. Of the number of OpenText Exstream implementations performed by your organization; how many contractor personnel has your company provided in a single annual period for a single contract effort implemented using OpenText Exstream/xPression skills?

a. Less than 50 individual contractor resources

b. Between 50 and 99 individual contractor resources

c. Between 100 and 200 individual contractor resources

d. Between 200 and 300 individual contractor resources

e. Between 300 and 400 individual contractor resources

f. Greater than 400 individual contractor resources

9. How would you incorporate target application technical constraints? Constraints include, but not limited to (see Task 2 and 3):

a. OpenText Exstream

b. OpenText xPression

c. DBMS schema

d. Java component framework, specifically batch frameworks

e. Customer specified Java class structures

f. Microservices

g. Providing / leveraging common services and components across the Enterprise

h. 508 Compliant online digital notice generation, testing and implementation

i. Provide Subject Matter Expertise and best practices in utilizing COTS and IRS/Treasury Cloud products.

CCS-END Support Role

Requirements Development

Architecture

Design

Solutions Engineering

Development

Test

a. Code acceptance testing

b. Load and performance testing

c. User acceptance testing

d. Integration testing

e. IRS 508 compliance testing

Security Services

a. Security Testing

b. Penetration Testing

c. Security Architecture and Design

d. Security Engineering Services

e. Security Assessment and security documentation

Cloud Hosting and/or Storage

Program Management Support

Organizational Change Support

OpenText Exstream installation, implementation, development and Support

OpenText xPression installation, implementation, development and Support

Microservices development and support

Development experience with Cloud based Database Platform and size of the effort

Business Certifications (e.g., CMMI, ISO)

MicroServices development/support

Teaming Arrangements: Responses based upon anticipated teaming arrangements and Joint Ventures are acceptable. The capability of each team member (prime contractor and subcontractors) shall be demonstrated relative to the anticipated functions/roles to be performed by each. All teaming arrangements shall also include the above-cited information and certifications for each entity on the proposed team. Specifically, the capability statement must address how much effort would be performed by any proposed team member. Note that any resulting small business set-aside would require that at least 51% of the cost of contract performance for personnel be expended for employees of the concern (see FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting).

Any information provided by industry to the Government as a result of this sources sought synopsis is strictly voluntary. Responses will not be returned. No entitlements to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges to the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses, or the Government's use of such information. The information obtained from responses to this notice may be used in the development of an acquisition strategy and future RFQ.

Responses to this Sources Sight must be submitted to the POC listed below via e-mail no later than 2:00 PM EST, June 25, 2024

Aaron J. Lewis Contract Officer Aaron.j.lewis@irs.gov

Oral submissions of information are not acceptable and will not be accepted in response to this notification.

No phone calls or emails related to this source sought notice will be accepted.