Recovery - the social security administration (SSA) funded this proposed action by the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 (PUB. L. 111-5) (recovery act). The agency provides this notice "for informational purposes only. "

This opportunity is only available to SSA's existing Systems Operational Support Services (SOSS) contractor, Koniag Services, Inc., of Chantilly VA, under Contract Number SS00-09-60009. The SSA issued a single-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a five year period (one year base period, and four oneyear option periods) to the contractor, who is recognized as an Alaskan 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 anticipates issuing a fixed-price 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.

This Task Order, funded by the Recovery Act, allows for the contractor to support SSA's National Computer Center (NCC - Balatimore, MD) and  National Support Center (NSC - Urbana, MD) by providing site development and maintenance in support of projects related to the ongoing support of migration tasks and moving existing systems to the Secondary Support Center (SSC) in Durham, NC.

In addition, this Task Order requires the ability to: (1) attend orientation meetins with SSA Task Manager (s) and Staff; (2) provide general support; (3) provide project wrap-up reports; (4) coordinate the installation of mainframe and open systems equipment.

This notice is for "Informational purposes only." Vendors should not respond.