Mainframe Services

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial services prepared in accordance with the Subpart 12.6 and as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. This requirement will result in an award of a firm-fixed-price contract. This is a 100% Total Small Business Set aside under North American Industrial Classification System Code (NAICS) 518210 - Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services with the small business size standard of $32.5 million. 1625DC-19-Q-00027 is the Request for Quotation (RFQ).

REQUIREMENT: The Contractor shall provide an off premise mainframe (Enterprise Server) processing environment that supports interactive and batch processing. Examples of interactive processes in use by BLS are TSO, CICS, and various utilities available under Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF). Batch jobs are submitted as part of the interactive process or via a scheduler. Batch jobs are also submitted from local BLS users. Users of this environment are located in the national office in Washington, DC, regional offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City/Dallas, and San Francisco, as well as various state offices in thirty-seven (37) states around the United States including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Users can submit jobs from any site on the BLS network, and output can be routed to one or more designated sites using Job Entry Subsystem (JES) and Virtual Printer System (VPS). See the Performance Work Statement below and Attachment A - Pricing Sheet for details.

The Period of Performance will be from 11 September 2019 through 10 September 2020, to include 2 option periods ending 10 September 2022.
The Government will award a Firm-Fixed-Price purchase-order resulting from this solicitation to the vendor whose quotation conforms to the solicitation and represents the best value to the government. Evaluations will be performed in accordance with 52.212-2 -- Evaluation -- Commercial Items and additional criteria in the attached RFQ. The offeror will be evaluated in accordance with the following factors, (1) Benchmark; (2) Technical; and (3) Price. Quotes are due no later than July 18, 2019, 1300 hours EST. BLS requests that vendors submit a quote with the price of each item listed with pricing at or better than offered to the most favored customer. In accordance with 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors, paragraph (f), quotes received after the established closing date will be viewed as late, and therefore not considered. Contractors must follow the instructions including 52.212-1 and the supplemental instructions. Contractors can either fill provision 52.212-3 - Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, or reference the certification in the System for Award Management System (SAM). Clause 52.212-4 - Contract Terms and Conditions, applies to this solicitation.

All questions and submissions must be submitted electronically to portillo.jessica@bls.gov and fontaine.gary@bls.gov. See section L of this RFQ for further instructions. Quotes shall be good for 90 calendar days from the date of submission.

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