L14PS00888_Presentation_Slides.pdf

L14PS00888 - Pre-Proposal

Presentation

October 30, 2014

Introductions

Bob Dobson – Section Chief, BLM NOC Acquisitions, IT Team

Contracting Personnel

• Bob Dobson – Section Chief

• William Paterson – Contracting Officer

• Allyson Conley – Contract Specialist

Program Personnel

• Joe Manke - Chief of Project Management

Bureau of Land Management

(BLM)

The BLM manages more land – approximately 253 million acres -than any other Federal agency.

This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska.

The Bureau, with a budget of about $1 billion, also administers

700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estates throughout the nation.

The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

BLM Division of Information

Resource Management (DIRM)

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Operations Center (NOC), Division of Information Resource Management (DIRM) located in Denver, Colorado has a vision to establish a commitment to excellence in delivering quality Information Technology (IT) services and systems to its customers the first time, every time.

The division emphasizes the application of IT to meet specific business processes to improve public service, enhance employee productivity and improve data quality.

DIRM supports the BLM's mission by providing collaborative technical leadership, guidance, application development, engineering, and enterprise administration of BLM IT infrastructure to the whole of BLM inclusive of state offices, field offices, national centers, interagency partnerships, and the Washington Office.

The division's commitment is to support the BLM with superior information systems and processes that help serve customers better.

BLM National Operations

Center(NOC) Acquisitions

The NOC Acquisitions is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. We provide national-level acquisition operational supporting construction, information technology and goods and services as well as all acquisition support for NOC daily operations, and support contracts. We procure over $110 million dollars annually, of which 37% of these dollars are in our information technology program.

Fiscal Year 2015 Focus

• Support the Greater Sage Grouse effort

• Enhance Resource Landscape Management techniques

• Deliver the AFMSS application

• Support BLM Branding Initiatives

• Standardize BLM’s Geospatial web & Data Sharing strategies

• Lead BLM Asset Management operations including Real Estate, Fleet, WCF

• Reduce BLM Classification processing time, pilot OWCP efficiency improvement

• Produce a clean Financial Audit & accurate Financial Reports

• Enable Mobility, WiFi, and Virtual Workforce infrastructure

• Implement National IT Service Delivery/Reliability

BLM National Operations

Center(NOC) Acquisitions (Cont)

Fiscal Year 2015 Focus

• In perusing these objectives the NOC service-wide contract and financial assistance support for the following programs:

Wild land Fire

Construction

A&E

Natural resources

Facilities management

Information technology

Utility services

Site assessments

Environmental mediation

General support services

Helium Support services

Agenda

Pertinent Information

Solicitation Overview

Amendments

Objectives Business

Performance

General Questions

Break

Open Forum

Closing

L14PS00888 – Information

Technology Support Services

Multiple award IDIQ Contracts

Ceiling, Minimums/Maximums

Evaluation Criteria

Mock Task Order

Continuity of Services

Task Order Procedures

Amendments

Amendments to Solicitation

L14PS00888

Amendment #1

The purpose of this Amendment is to upload the Word file of

Exhibit 3 - Questionnaire and to extend the date for Part I for receipt of those questionnaires as is indicated within this new

Word file.

Amendment #2

The purpose of this Amendment is to upload Attachment 4 -

Related Technologies which was inadvertently omitted from the original posting of the solicitation.

Amendment #3

Appoint Allyson Conley as Primary Contract Specialist.

Remove 52.216-18 - Ordering (Oct 1995) (ADDENDUM)

Remove the previous stated past performance instructions and associated Exhibit 3

New past performance instructions are incorporated within the updated solicitation.

A revised Exhibit 3 has been updated and incorporated to coincide.

Amendment #3 (Con’t)

Past Performance Questionnaires (Exhibit 3) are due on Monday

November 17, 2014.

Note: All previous past performance submissions will not be evaluated when determining awards. All previously received past performance questionnaires were deleted upon receipt by the contract specialist.

Responses to electronically submitted questions and Pre-Proposal questions will be posted via Amendment 4 on Tuesday November 4, 2014.

Amendment #4 (Upcoming)

FedConnect posting of all attachments

Pre-Proposal Recap

Responses to questions sent via email

Responses to questions not addressed at the Pre-Proposal.

Business Objectives

1. Establish business partner relationships

2. Identify and secure long term relationships with capable providers for key business and technology services.

3. Streamline procurement processes to support dynamic business and technology needs.

4. Provide access to technology solutions and alternative approaches for achieving business objectives.

5. Continuously strive to improve practices and procedures understanding the ever-evolving IT Environment.

6. Provide cost effective solutions through competition amongst the

Contractor awardees.

Performance Objectives

DIRM develops, operates and maintains approximately 40 software applications for the BLM. These applications are national in scope and assist bureau programs in the management of over 260 million acres of land in the United States.

1. Work is performed in a consistent, repeatable, predictable, and coordinated manner.

2. New system application development

3. Maintenance of existing systems (current configurations)

4. Migration to new operating methods/environments

5. Consolidation of IT systems and services through technologies and architectural strategies such as virtualization, centralized and cloud-based hosting.

6. Other major effort forecasted over the next several years are mobile development and application reengineering/refactoring.

7. Facilitation of data sharing.

General Questions

Break

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Open Forum

Closing

1. Housekeeping Items:

• All remote attendees please email contracting specialist ajconley@blm.gov letting us know of your attendance.

2. Review Schedule:

• November 4, 2014 – Anticipate Solicitation Amendment resulting from Conference/Post responses to questions sent via eMail

• November 17, 2014 – Past Performance Questionnaires

Due from Vendor’s Client’s

• November 24, 2014 – 9:00 MT – Offers Due & Evaluation

Process begins

• January 30, 2015 – Anticipate Final Award

3. Final Wrap-Up mailto:ajconley@blm.gov