SOLICITATION NOTICE
74 -- Development & Technical support
- Notice Date
- 3/6/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Office of Administration, 6011 Executive Blvd, Rm 538, Rockville, MD, 20892-7663, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 263-2007-Q-(GZ)0110
- Response Due
- 3/13/2007
- Description
- This is a request for a quotation under the Commercial Test Program as authorized under FAR 13.5. The period of performance shall be for one twelve (12) month period, with options to renew for four (4) successive twelve (12) month periods. OFM seeks developer and project management resources for the ongoing development and support of the new Royalties system. Requirements will continue to be defined by the Royalties Coordinator, OD, OFM, NIH and the Chief of the Government Accounting Branch, OD, OFM, NIH. Objective is to have a completed and operational system which will be maintained and supported by the OFM Systems group. The contractor will need to constantly interact with Royalties system users and stakeholders to discern business needs, formulate optimal solutions, and implement them. This requires a thorough understanding of all current functionality and procedures, as well as the ability to take conceptual goals and ultimately put them into practice in a manner that best suits OFM?s needs. The contractor is required to complete the following tasks and address the known deficiencies in the current system when completing development of the new Royalties software: For Base year: Determine and develop the best solutions for the current requirements defined by OFM to complete the core functionality of the Royalties application. ?Design and create help screens and wizards needed to support and perform complex tasks. ?Design the system to eliminate tedious and non-intuitive entry of Royalty Distribution Form (RDF) information in multiple screens within different areas. ?Develop ?view at-a-glance? query capability to view distribution and disbursement history of a particular inventor ?Design a process to allow direct access to the SQL Server database to run certain reports and to check the proper execution of functions. ?Design a process to allow direct access to the SQL Server database to run certain reports and to check the proper execution of functions. ?Include print-friendly versions of reports. ?Create user-friendly ad hoc search capability. ?Allow for dynamic modification of business logic; specifically, the limits and percentages for the normal calculation of royalty distributions. ?Allow administrative users to change export file formats where possible to comply with yearly changes in reporting requirements. ?Improve the handling of the three types of mailing addresses used for each inventor. ?Permit the Royalties Coordinator to easily designate that an inventor should not be paid during a particular payout, and display a report with all the skipped inventors so that follow up can occur. Also, improve display of data to more easily note when an inventor has been prepaid. ?Develop a Payout Wizard to more easily handle the many parts of the payout process. ?Allow automatic calculation of the distribution of royalties where Inter-institutional Agreements (IIAs) are concerned. ?Design and create a process to allow error corrections to be made for previous months? distributions (negative income must be added and distributions balanced). ?Improve distribution algorithm to avoid rounding problems (a.k.a. "the penny problem"). ?Allow users to easily view the audit trail for each payout. ?Encrypt all passwords, Social Security Numbers (SSNs), and banking information stored in the database. ?Provide the ability within the system to mark funds as being in suspense and then unmark them to include them in calculations. ?Configure system for pop-up ?Alerts? which are immediately given if license distributions don?t add to 100%. ?Include automatic checking to make sure that certain totals "tie" to others; this improves the speed and accuracy of the payout process. ?Improve handling of company/organization recipients; currently the system is set up to handle individuals, so handling of company names can be awkward. ?Improve and automate error handling when data transmission problems occur while sending data to Treasury. For Base years plus 4 option years: Provide ongoing consulting and development support for new requests that OFM regularly receives to enhance functionality of the Royalties system Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit capability statements to the Contract Specialist by March 13, 2007 at 3PM EST. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Address responses to the attention of Doris Vaughn at National Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Blvd., Room 539B, MSC 7663, Rockville, MD 20852. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 518210.
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
- Zip Code: 20852
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20852
- Record
- SN01244440-W 20070308/070306220317 (fbodaily.com)
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