JGITS_FBO_Industry_Day_Attachment_2_FINAL.pdf

D.O.J. Office of Justice Programs FY20 JGITS Industry Day Attachment 2

Justice Grants Information Technology Solution (JGITS) - Information

Technology (IT) Enterprise-wide Application Development services

Market Research Requested Information

Background:

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is a component within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) comprised of six statutorily authorized offices and bureaus and supported by several key business offices.

The DOJ/OJP provides grants to federal, state, and local governments within the fifty (50) states and U.S.

territories. OJP provides federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to reduce and prevent crimes, improve the criminal and juvenile justice systems, influence and increase the knowledge about crime and related issues, and assist crime victims in communities and across the nation at the federal, state, and local levels. OJP works to form partnerships among federal, state, and local government officials to control drug abuse and trafficking; rehabilitate neighborhoods; improve the administration of justice in America; meet the needs of crime victims; and address problems such as gang violence, prison crowding, and juvenile and white-collar crime.

OJP has embarked on a major digital transformation initiative to re-imagine the Grants Lifecycle Management process. Reimagining grants management and streamlining key business processes are key pillars to realizing the goals of this initiative. From a technological perspective, the OJP requires an architecture and infrastructure that is agile, flexible, scalable, and able to accommodate innovation for this and all future initiatives.

OJP HQ OCIO operates and maintains datacenter-based services in a private cloud infrastructure located in three (3) DOJ datacenter in Rockville, MD; Pocatello, ID; and Sterling, VA. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft GovCloud/Azure are utilized in support of select aspects of the software development and production environments. In addition, OJP utilizes Microsoft Azure DevOps for automated project management.

Additional major technologies employed by OJP includes Drupal, Pegasystems, Serena, Socrata, Logi Analytics, HTML, CSS, HTML5, CSS3, Java, Responsive Design, SharePoint 2007 and up, ASPX, .NET, ColdFusion, MS SQL, Google Enterprise Search, Google Maps API, Smartlogic, Microsoft FAST, Apache, PHP, PERL, and MySQL.

Purpose:

Supporting OJP’s interest in improving its business operations and enhancing its users’ experience through the introduction of new technology-based capabilities, OCIO has defined an enterprise platform architecture to underpin OJP’s mission. The architecture has been structured around a set of large-scale components, with each component representing a coherent set of capabilities organized to deliver services across all of OJP’s lines of business.

The purpose of this requirement is to obtain Information Technology (IT) Enterprise-wide Application Development services in support of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP) information technology portfolio that will significantly improve the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) operations and service to its customers.

OCIO desires services to enable it to carry out responsibilities for direction, management, governance, and oversight of Enterprise-wide Application Development and Sustainment functions and activities. The areas of support include:

1. Technical Program Management

2. Enterprise Applications Development

3. Enterprise& Data Architecture

4. Technology Innovation

5. Web-Based IT Projects

Requested Information

1. Describe (in measurable terms) results for an enterprise-wide solution your company has provided in support of the general requirements listed above. Your response must clearly demonstrate the Return on Investment (ROI) to the process owner and the client. Also include in your response any experience with providing the services listed above to grant making agencies.

2. Describe your approach to operating in an environment with tight timelines and sometimes unrealistic expectations with respect to delivery schedules and overall ROI (operational and/or financial).

3. Describe your approach to the simultaneous management of multiple high priority projects given the organizational / environmental concerns in question #2 above.

4. How would you build (or how have you built) a process of continuous improvement in a diverse organization such as the OJP? What are the keys to success?

5. What is your approach to dealing with organizational barriers and fear of change?

6. Provide information about anticipated lead times to staff teams for work on a federal project of this size.

7. Based on the high level capabilities, how many FTEs would be needed for this effort? When does the vendor expect to be at 100% filled positions (60, 90, 120 days etc)?

The response should include the following information clearly identified:

• Vendor’s name, address, points of contact information, website, DUNS, and cage code.

• Vendor’s current business designation and size status.

• Vendor’s applicable GWAC (i.e. Federal Supply Schedule(s), SIN)

• Vendor may offer other applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assignments for these services, if applicable

• Tailored capability statements do not need to address all general areas of this requirement.

Vendors are encouraged to address those requirements which most align with their capabilities by submitting appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability.

The vendor should clearly indicate which general areas of this requirement are being addressed in its submission.

o If subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

o The capability statement may include suggestions for the type of contract structure that would best suit the broad range of functions and tasks described herein.

Submission Format, Time and Date

Responses are due no later than 11:00AM EST, Friday August 30, 2019 and should be e- mailed to JGITSFY20@usdoj.gov . The Vendor may choose the format of response as long as it can be e-mailed (e.g. weblink, slide deck, PDF). Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

mailto:JGITSFY20@usdoj.gov

Disclaimer

The information requested is for information and planning purposes only and shall NOT be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Government. This announcement does not constitute an Invitation for Bids (IFB), Request for Quote (RFQ), or a RFP, and it should not be construed as a commitment of any kind by the Government to issue a formal solicitation or ultimately award a contract.

This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in the response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any concern responding to this notice should ensure that its’ response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the concern’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.

However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.

The Government will NOT accept requests for meetings or briefings, and may not answer any questions posed. No phone solicitations or email with regards to the status of a potential RFP will be accepted prior to its release. Information and materials submitted in response to this notice WILL NOT be returned.

The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses received nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted.

As a result of this notice, the Government MAY issue a RFP. There is no solicitation available at this time. However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this request or the Government’s use of such information as either part of our evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement.

CONFIDENTIALITY: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).