Professional, Administrative, and Management Support Services / Analytics and Performance Management Data Metrics

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with Malbaie Solutions Inc., 23929 Burdette Forest Road, Clarksburg, Maryland 20871 for support services to establish the Office of Administrative Services (OAS) Analytics and Performance Management Data Metrics. The Contractor is to provide data analysis and performance management expertise for organization changes within OAS. The task to be completed are 1) Conduct a data quality assessment, 2) Development performance goals, 3) Analyze workflows, 4) Create common metrics for continuous performance improvements and 5) reports. This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 - Acquisition for Commercial Items.

Only one award will be made as a result of this solicitation. This will be awarded as a firm-fixed price type of contract.

Period of Performance is twelve (12) months from date of award. Delivery to Bethesda, MD 20892.

Malbaie Solutions has unique knowledge of NIAID specific system's architecture and has developed analytical tools based on that knowledge to rapidly assess anomalies in data sets during transfer. The accuracy of these verification steps and process controls are essential to accomplish the desired outcome of the project and within the performance period defined. Malbaie Solutions has prior experience developing software releases to NIH Business System (NBS) and Procurement Information System for Management (PRISM) along with NIAID development of Merlin software releases. Malbaie Solutions staff have extensive working knowledge of Acquisition Management Budget Information System (AMBIS) and the CIT web-service interface that bridges NIAID purchase requests to NBS Oracle. Malbaie Solutions has developed data marts for analytics sourced from nVision, Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS), and applications specific to NIAID. Their unique experience developing SQL based extraction queries from nVision to source NBS and NIH Enterprise Data (NED) has not been replicated by other Contractors. Their experience is unmatched in creating customized analytical tools and outputs sourced from NIH Data Warehouse, OHR's Workflow Information Tracking System (WiTS) and FPDS, along with mapping those data sets back to NIH business processes and workflows. These individual system skills coupled with the Oracle coding knowledge makes Malbaie Solutions uniquely positioned to extend that knowledge into this project within days of award. As a result, Malbaie Solutions would save the government extensive labor and knowledge associated as well as meet the OAS restructuring schedule.

The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1 only one source available, no substitutions possible. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTATIONS. All responsible sources who can provide the required services may submit a response that could be considered by email (subject line to reference NIAID-NOI-18-1876825) to Tonia Alexander at talexander@niaid.nih.gov, by 3:00 pm eastern standard time Monday, November 27, 2017. All information furnished must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail to allow NIAID to determine if it can meet the above specifications described herein. All responses received by the closing date of this solicitation will be considered by the Government. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.