Amendment 3 - vendor questions answered - Data Quality - base plus four option years

The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture seeks data quality services through a firm-fixed price contract with a one year base period and four one year option periods. Vendors must propose technical and management approaches, personnel qualifications, past performance references, and pricing to support tasks including identifying and documenting current data quality issues, categorizing issues, and recommending solutions. Proposals will be evaluated based on the technical approach, staff qualifications, past performance, management plan, and price, and are due by September 1st.

The solicitation is set aside for total small business and seeks NAICS 541511 custom computer programming services. The incumbent contractor is Vanguard Management Solutions, Inc. under a purchase order valued at $315,151.20 set to expire September 29th, 2023. Work will be performed at the contractor's facility and involve utilizing tools like Python, R, and SQL to analyze test data and production tables for quality issues within FSIS IT systems over the five year period of performance.