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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 19, 2005 FBO #1301
MODIFICATION

D -- E-Government Enterprise Architecture Technical and Management Services for the USDA Forest Service

Notice Date

6/17/2005
 

Notice Type

Modification
 

NAICS

541512 — Computer Systems Design Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington Office, Post Office Box 96090, Room RP-E Acquisition Management, Washington, DC, 20090-6090
 

ZIP Code

20090-6090
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-egov2005
 

Point of Contact

Steven Schmidt, Procurement Analyst, Phone 703-605-4628, Fax 703-605-5100,
 

E-Mail Address

sjschmidt@fs.fed.us
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

This is a Pre-solicitation Notice - the Request for Proposals will be posted to the Federal Business Opportunity website, (FedBizOps), at www.fbo.gov, on or about July 5, 2005. Purpose The Forest Service, an agency within the Department of Agriculture, seeks contractor services to provide management and technical support service for their e-Gov and Enterprise Architecture (EA) Programs. The resulting contract will provide the Forest Service with a vehicle for fast and effective access to acquire state-of-the-art enterprise architecture services to support the Forest Service e-Gov EA initiatives. This contract is an Indefinite Delivery Requirements type contract with provisions for Firm Fixed Price and Time and Material pricing arrangements under individual task orders. Background As an agency of the United States Federal Government, the Forest Service understands the e-Government transformation objective as “the use of digital technologies to transform government operations in order to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and service delivery.” The Federal vision for electronic government is “an order of magnitude improvement in the federal government’s value to the citizen; with decisions in minutes or hours, not weeks or months.” The progress made within the Forest Service’s e-Gov EA endeavor will have a direct correlation to how well the agency transitions to delivering information and services in electronic form over the Internet. Succeeding in this effort will require a detailed understanding of the value chains that now support the agency’s information and service delivery, as well as the ability to modify these value chains to achieve the desired results, where necessary. The Forest Service is comprised of more than 35,000 permanent employees and over 100,000 seasonal and volunteer employees making it the largest agency within the Department of Agriculture (USDA). As part of this larger enterprise and mission, the Forest Service EA and e-Gov strategies, tactics, and operations must fit within the USDA and federal level EA and e-Gov strategies, tactics, and operations. For each initiative area, the Forest Service e-Gov roadmap describes the dimensions of business needs, or opportunities, along with the e-Gov “foundation” technologies that can be employed to meet these needs or capitalize on opportunities. There are 14 foundation technologies identified in the roadmap, many of which the USDA and the Forest Service does not yet own or license. Each Forest Service e-Gov initiative area can benefit from employing an average of nine of the foundation technologies, and each such technology has been identified as having promise to support e-Gov transformation for an average of 12 to 13 initiative areas. These statistics represent, as does the balance of the Forest Service e-Gov Strategy and Roadmap, a very high level of analysis. To prove the vision and projections of the roadmap requires additional detailed business line modernization analysis. This detailed analysis should link the Forest Service mission, vision, goals, and objectives (strategic intent) within an initiative area to adjustments in the value chains of the Forest Service, its partners, its suppliers, and its customers. Adjustments are made to targeted value chains by adding, modifying, or terminating their component processes, and so strategic objectives can be achieved. Value chain adjustments capable of supporting Forest Service e-Gov strategies will need to be identified by analyzing the ability of e-Gov/e-Business technologies to enable more efficient ways to deliver government goods and services and also to enhance these goods and services by adding to and improving the information content embedded in them. The single contract awarded will be an Indefinite Delivery Requirements type. The period of performance for this contract is a base of two years from October 1, 2005, and up to three (3) one (1) year options. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (17-JUN-2005); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
 

Web Link

Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/USDA/FS/WOAM/Reference-Number-egov2005/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: 1621 North Kent Street, Arlington, VA

Zip Code: 22209

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00832151-F 20050619/050617211950 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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