Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Commerce Business Systems (CBS) Support Services

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) intends to issue a sole source requirement for Commerce Business Support (CBS) Services for the following:

1. Business Analysis, Data Analytics, Project Management and Support Services – Assist in gathering business/functional/technical requirements; quantifying/qualifying requirements; providing clear documentation; performing data analytics on categories including, but not limited to: payables/receivables/financial aspects of contracts and grants/budget/funds management/general ledger/special initiatives, etc.; tracking requirements/risks/issues throughout the development life cycle to verify that design, programming and testing efforts focus on meeting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requirements. 
2. Database and Web Services – Provide technical expertise across the CBS/NOAA Data Warehouse (NDW) application web tier and database tier project suite; provide operational support for all CBS/NDW environments and install and configure component modules within this complex environment. 
3. Data validation/data quality/data consistency/data accuracy, troubleshooting, and analysis related to, and in support of, the migration from CBS to Business Application Systems (BAS) – leverage extensive technical and institutional knowledge of NOAA’s financial, budget, purchase card (P-CARD), travel, acquisitions, grants, reporting, data and data structures in CBS to identify inconsistencies and errors in the converted/migrated transactional data in BAS Oracle E Business Suite (EBS) and BAS Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and suggest ways to address and/or correct those inconsistencies through data analytics and/or data documentation. 
4. Development Services – Support Systems, Data Warehouse, and Reports development life cycle methodologies for systems development; provide operations and maintenance (O&M) support; break fix analysis and development; performance tuning and unit testing within the NOAA configuration management process. Document, design, and develop data integration approaches/routines and repositories to enable NOAA to meet its reporting requirements for multi-year reporting between CBS and BAS data sources leveraging EDW and a BAS “Data Lake”, or NDW if the BAS data lake is not available or accessible through common use tools such as TOAD, SQL Plus, etc.  Identify gaps in DOC BAS provided reports and dashboards and develop bureau specific reports to bridge those gaps. This includes, but is not limited to: EBS reports missing fields, near real time quick reports equivalents, EDW Tableau advanced reports based on source EDW tables (versus Excel extracts), and NOAA specified BAS data reporting/data warehouse requirements from the BAS Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).  Develop solutions for combining legacy CBS data and Enterprise EBS/EDW data into consolidated reports/dashboards to better support the needs of NOAA’s finance and budget user communities and assist NOAA Line and Staff offices where appropriate.  Leverage existing data analytics, query, and reporting tools, and identify potential new tools, to perform such work both now and in the future.
5. Quality Assurance (QA)/Testing & Training – Provide an organized, cost-effective and proven quality assurance testing process based on extensive CBS experience QA testing expertise that ensures all code deliveries are thoroughly tested prior to promotion to the NOAA production environment. Support BAS integration, user acceptance, and interface testing of all related code impacting NOAA/Economic Development Administration (EDA)/Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) related data.
6. Oracle Software Special Services – Provide specialized Oracle software support to the NOAA CBS program and Financial Systems Division (FSD) in the implementation, configuration, O&M of all Oracle related products utilized across the enterprise as implemented for CBS/NDW architecture, as well as other advanced Oracle products offerings as required. 
7. Senior Program Management Support Services – Develop and maintain an Integrated Project Schedule for CBS/NDW and NOAA BAS related activities and tasks leveraging contract staff’s extensive knowledge of NOAA Finance practice, procedures, policies, and data; manage technical and staff resources; coordinate with NOAA, FSD, Finance Office, Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Department of Commerce (DOC) stakeholders and support staff; develop Project Management, Communications and Risk Management Plans as required. 
8. Technical Support – Support technical testing and provide technical customer support on Tier 2 tickets. 

Justification for this sole source procurement is in accordance with FAR 8.405-6(a)(1)(B) Only one source is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services are unique or highly specialized.

This notice of intent is not a solicitation or request for competitive quotes. However, if any interested party believes they are capable in performing the required services identified, they may submit a brief narrative demonstrating your capability and detailed experience with interfacing and transitioning to a new system, sunsetting a system and experience with a custom system. All information furnished must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail to allow NOAA to be able to determine if the interested party can perform the requirement described herein. Responses will be considered by the Government, however, a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed acquisition based upon responses of this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. NOAA will not be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties n responding to this notice of intent. Interested parties are encouraged to furnish information by email only with Response to Notice of Intent for Commerce Business Systems (CBS) Support Services in the subject line. All documents submitted will not be returned. All interested parties shall submit clear and convincing documentation demonstrating their capabilities to satisfy the requirements listed.