Notice_of_Intent_to_Sole_Source__Final_1.docx

United States Department of the Interior

INTERIOR BUSINESS CENTER

Washington, DC 20240

Posted Date: February 16, 2022

Procurement Office: The Department of the Interior (DOI) – Interior Business Center (IBC), Acquisition Services Directorate (AQD) Response Due Date: February 23, 2022, by 2:00 PM EST NOTICE OF INTENT SYNOPSIS: The Department of the Interior, Interior Business Center, Acquisition Services Directorate on behalf of the Wildland Fire Information Technology (WFIT), Office of Wildland Fire, intends to award a contract to Totara Learning Inc., on a sole source basis. The intended procurement is classified under North American Industry Classification System code (NAICS) Code 541511. This is a sole source procurement under the authority of FAR Part 13, only the responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

This acquisition is conducted under the procedures as described in FAR Part 13.5 - Simplified Procedures for Certain Commercial Items and FAR Part 12- Acquisition of Commercial Items.

Description:

Totara Learning Services/Products and most current version platform offerings to include the SF-182 government implementation.

Purpose and Objective:

The IBC anticipates award of a Purchase Order, Firm Fixed Price (FFP) for sole source to Totara for professional and technical services to support the Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary, Wildland Fire Information Technology (WFIT), Office of Wildland Fire (OWF) for Totara License Services, Totara Learn Government Cloud Platform License Operations and Maintenance Support, and Totara Learn Government Cloud Platform Hosting Services and Support to maintain the Wildland Fire Learning Management System (WFLMS) for the National Wildfire Coordinating Group members and management organizations to include the operating and delivering of a complete LMS solution using Totara Learn Government Cloud Platform License Operations and Maintenance support. This includes all LMS application & hosting, configuration, testing, deployment, ongoing application or system patching, system security, and program support to the WFLMS Program.

The contract will be established as a Firm Fixed Price contract over a three (3) year period to meet the inter-agency Wildland Fire Management’s requirement for approximately 60,000 active users at multiple role levels. An active user is defined as a user who has accessed the WFLMS within the last six months.

This contract will contain the following Three (3) Delivery Tasks supplied together in a single solution offering. The requirement of all three tasks offered together is derived from an ability to deliver and maintain continual operations with zero downtime or solution offering gaps and/or delays.

Task 1: Totara License Services: This task is to supply the License / Subscription services for the WFLMS LMS solution. These Licenses / Subscriptions provide the required system compliance for daily operational tasks, organizational initiatives, as well as NWCG training requirements in the WFLMS platform.

Task 2: Totara Learn Government Cloud Platform License Operations and Maintenance Support: This supplies the required professional services for Project Management Support, Subject Matter Expert (SME) Support, and Software Engineer Support to maintain and develop the WFLMS solution.

Task 3: Totara Learn Government Cloud Platform Hosting Services and Support: This task is for Amazon Web Services (AWS) - AWS GovCloud. Hosting Support includes on-going operations and maintenance, technical support and monitoring of the database, content and web servers, full load balancing, with auto backup of the production database data and network failover design.

Period of Performance: One (1) base year and, Two (2) Option Years.

This notice of intent to award a sole source contract is NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. A SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED.

However, in accordance with FAR 5.207(c)(16)(ii), all responsible sources that feel they can meet the Government's requirements detailed above may submit a capability statement which shall be considered by the agency. Responses to this notice shall contain sufficient information to establish the interested parties' bona-fide capabilities for fulfilling the requirements and include: the Unique Entity ID (UEI) and the Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). All offerors must have an active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) www.sam.gov.

A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The information received will be retained as Market Research.

All responses must be received by 2:00 pm MST on Wednesday, 02/23/2022 and must reference number 140D0422Q0245. Responses may be submitted electronically to Lilian Huyen via email at Lilian_Huyen@ibc.doi.gov and Deion Turner Deion_Turner@ibc.doi.gov image1.png