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Sources Sought Synopsis Sample

APR 2019

Sources Sought Synopsis

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for contractor support to provide digital email subscription services. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System

(NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 518210 - Data Processing, Hosting, and Related

Services. Product Service Code: DC10 IT and Telecom -Data Center as A Service. There is no solicitation at this time. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary;

the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred.

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) organization name, address, email address, website address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of personnel and risk mitigation; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

Based on the responses to this sources sought notice/market research, this requirement may be set-aside for small businesses or procured through full and open competition, and multiple awards may be made. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

Submission Instructions: Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the above-listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by August

13, 2025, at 9:00 am ET. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to

Dwayne.E.Gist@HUD.gov. Additional information on the required services is listed below.

If you have any questions concerning this opportunity, please contact: Dwayne Gist.

mailto:Dwayne.E.Gist@HUD.gov

Background:

The EDRC Data Center is a centralized facility to house HUDs and its customers’ critical IT infrastructure to mitigate the risk of failure in the event of natural disasters, outages, or other unforeseen events.

HUD’s primary EDRC Data Center, National Center for Critical Information Processing and

Storage (NCCIPS), is in southern Mississippi. The facility has a footprint of twenty-two (22) forty-four-unit (44U) racks (non-contiguous) with a power draw of approximately eighty-five (85) kilowatts (KWs) at 3-phase. HUD provides and maintains the internet service provider point of presence (ISP PoP)/circuits required to connect the disaster recovery colocation data center.

General Description of Work:

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), of the Deputy Chief

Information Officer for Infrastructure and Operations Office (DCIO IOO) in support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) requires an External Disaster Recovery Colocation Data

Center (EDRC Data Center) to ensure HUD’s critical IT infrastructure, portfolio of capabilities and investments, and services are able to continue to operate when HUD’s primary data center, Denver, Colorado experiences an outage, degradation of operational services, weather event, and/or natural disaster.

Example: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of the Chief

Information Officer (OCIO) requires contractor support to strengthen its Information Technology

(IT) planning and operations function. Services shall include analyzing current OCIO policies and procedures and providing recommendations to assist with the modernization of those policies and procedures. In addition, support is needed to train HUD staff on all new processes.

The Contractor shall provide Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) support services to monitor and validate the quality and effectiveness of out-sourced infrastructure managed services through program oversight and analysis and subsequent recommendations to the

Government. The IV&V support services shall include:

• Project Management

• Technical Analysis and Assessments

• Infrastructure Monitoring and Testing

• Training

Contemplated dollar value of the project:

• $6,196,544.44

Contemplated place of performance:

• The services to be performed under this contract shall be performed at the Contractor's facility via west of the Mississippi.