Rio Laserfiche Software Assurance Plan maintenance

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Information received will be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. A determination by the Government to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely at the discretion of the Government. Responses are to be received within 10 days of this notice. No telephone calls are being accepted.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), intends to negotiate and award on a Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition (JOFOC) basis. A purchase order will be one-year firm-fixed price award to Gordon Flesch Company (d.b.a. G.F. Consulting Group) of Bloomington, Minnesota for Rio Laserfiche Software Assurance Plan (LSAP) maintenance. Anticipated Date of Award: 9/24/2019.
USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) acquired Laserfiche RIO enterprise document management system (DMS). The solution is critical to enabling the successful completion of the agency's website upgrade, which had been selected as a Secretary of Agriculture's Signature Process Improvement Initiative to improve web services for users, the underlying IT foundation to better support current and evolving needs, and internal processes to develop and disseminate products. Thus, this continues as a critical component of USDA's IT Modernization efforts and improving the customer experience through the following services: Rio Forms Authenticated Participants Basic LSAP (1-49 users), Rio Laserfiche Forms Basic LSAP, Rio Pilot Named Full Users (50-99 users), Rio Additional Server License for Development Domain with LSAP, Rio Software Development Kit (SDK) Basic LSAP - Development Extra License, Rio SDK Basic LSAP - Production, and Rio System Pro Service Maintenance, including upgrade and technical support, audit and best practices changes of existing system..