HIG 15-45 Data Quality Analysis

Added: Apr 03, 2015 9:49 am INTRODUCTION

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Program Contracting Activity Central (PCAC) anticipates soliciting proposals and subsequently awarding a Single Award, Firm-Fixed-Price contract for non-personal services to support the Business Product Management (BPM) Program. Please note this is being issued in connection with Request for Information (RFI) VA701-15-N-0045.

SCOPE DESCRIPTION

The contractor shall review business and technical project documents for proper incorporation of defined requirements to implement data quality and identity management; develop, and refine enterprise requirements, use cases, and business rules used to implement and support data quality; plan and execute test plans for user acceptance testing (UAT) of software products; provide business and technical expertise in the areas of data quality and identity management; and perform data quality analysis and reporting in support of implementations and updates to the matching algorithm and other software (see ATTACHMENT 2).

ADMINISTRATIVE

The solicitation will be issued as a "Request for Proposal" (RFP) conducted in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 12 and 15. The solicitation will be advertised as a total Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside. The applicable NAICS code is 541611 with a size standard of $15.0 million. The solicitation will be issued on or about April 9, 2015 for approximately 21-30 calendar days. The anticipated contract period will include a six (6) month base period, with four (4) 12 month options to follow. Offerors will be required to submit their offers electronically via the eCMS VENDOR PORTAL. A guide is attached in order to assist potential Offerors with registering and becoming familiar with the eCMS VENDOR PORTAL (see ATTACHMENT 1).

DISCLAIMER

*This notice is not a request for competitive offers. Questions of a technical nature will not be answered as part of this notice; however, all general questions may be submitted in writing to the issuing office via the point of contact identified below. Telephone calls will not be accepted. The VA reserves the right to use only Federal Business Opportunities (FBO), via the internet, to provide notification of any amendments to this notice and the subsequent issuance of the solicitation. It is the contractor's responsibility to view FBO daily for any amendments to this notice and the subsequent issuance of the solicitation.

**The Performance Work Statement has been attached to this notice to afford potential Offerors an opportunity to become familiar with it prior to solicitation issuance. The Performance Work Statement may change prior to any official solicitation release; therefore, all potential Offerors are advised to carefully review all documents prior to submitting a proposal.

ATTACHMENTS

ATTACHMENT 1 - VA eCMS VENDOR PORTAL GETTING STARTED GUIDE

ATTACHMENT 2 - PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT