eRA Software Development Support

The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of all qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification according to the North American Industry Classification System, (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. Proprietary information submitted should be marked appropriately. All submitted information shall remain with the U.S. Government and will not be returned.

All responding firms are requested to identify their firm's size and type of business. The anticipated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services. Teaming arrangements and joint ventures may be considered for any subsequent procurement based on the Government's market research.
This market research is being conducted to identify sources that have prime contractor experience in providing secure application design and implementation in an agile environment. This includes design and development (new development and maintaining existing features and/or applications), application testing (manual and automated), requirements development, documentation, and management, application security and production application support for Federal grants management systems similar in size scope and complexity to the NIH eRA grants management system. The incumbent contractor currently provides a staff of about 150 Software Developers and Development Testers.
The responding firm must have demonstrated relevant and recent experience as a prime contractor in providing software application design and implementation, application testing, and other software systems support for a management system similar in size, scope and complexity to the eRA system. Furthermore, the software design, development and testing experience must be related to a significant portion of the activities that are part of the
13 activities described under the Grants Management functions GRM.010 through GRM.050 of the Grants Management Lifecycle as documented at https://www.ussm.gov/fibf-gm/.

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