RECOVERY - SSA's System Operational Support Services

RECOVERY -  THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (SSA) AWARDED TASK ORDER 0035 AGAINST SS00-09-60009, WHICH IS FUNDED BY THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009 (PUB. L. 111-5) (RECOVERY ACT).  THE AGENCY PROVIDES THIS NOTICE "FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY."

On August 9, 2012, SSA awarded a non-competitive Task Order, Number 0035, against an existing SSA Contract, Number SS00-09-60009, to the existing Systems Operational Support Services (SOSS) contractor, Koniag Services, Inc., of Chantilly VA.

The SSA awarded a non-competitive single-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract January 2009, for a five year period (one year base period, and four one-year option periods) to the contractor, who is recognized as an Alaskin Native Corporation, under the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program. 

The SOSS contract supports SSA's Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Systems, by providing a contractor to support the maintenance and continuity of the agency's technological and programmatic environment.  Support covers the following areas: Mainframe Hardware, Local Area Network Engineering, Network Engineering, Facilities, Communications, Computer Operations, Computer Scheduling and Document Management Imaging. 

SSA initially anticipated issuing a labor-hour task order to the contractor under the SOSS contract following the ordering procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 16.505, and where supplemented by the Ordering procedures outlined in the basic contract.  However, through negotiations, SSA awarded a firm-fixed-price task order to complete the tasks outlined below.  

Task Order 0035 consolidates, for administrative convenience, the following two Recovery Act funded program support efforts for the National Computer Center (NCC):

1.  Recovery - Subtask 35.1: Mainframe Storage Management Programming Support.  Contractor will provide storage management support to manage the increasing number of complex interrelated agency Direct Access Storage Device based and tape-based mainframe applications.     

2.  Recovery - Subtask 35.2: Open Systems Backup and Recovery Administration/Open systems Storage administration.  Contractor will provide support for the Open System Backup and Recovery Team, and the Open Systems Storage Planning and Design Team.  The contractor will assist in the design, administration, maintenance, and support of the Open System Storage Management Branch storage infrastructure at the NCC.

This award notice is issued for "Informational purposes only," and complies with the FAR 5.705, Publicizing postaward, requirement.