SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Request for Information Only - No Award - Professional Services - Request for Information
- Notice Date
- 11/1/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- General Services Administration, Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Greater Southwest Acquisition Center (7QSA), 819 Taylor Street, Room 7A37, Fort Worth, Texas, 76102, United States
- ZIP Code
- 76102
- Solicitation Number
- RFI_Professional_Services
- Archive Date
- 11/19/2010
- Point of Contact
- Andrea Bartula,
- E-Mail Address
-
andrea.bartula@gsa.gov
(andrea.bartula@gsa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is the.pdf version of the request for information. This request is for informational purposes ONLY and will NOT result in any contractual awards. This request for information is for market research purposes. The requested labor rates should be general CONUS rates and should include the IFF. Please identify the labor category number and title, as listed in this request, in which you are responding to, even if the labor category your company uses differs in title. In order for this market research to best serve this office, please be sure the categories you're representing in your response have like or similar experience, responsibilities, and education requirements. Your response should only include the requested information and should look similar to the following: Labor Category 6: Database Engineer II - $00.00 per hour. Labor Category 8: Database Engineer IV- $00.00 per hour. Labor Category 15: Software Architect II - $00.00 per hour. Responses should be sent to andrea.bartula@gsa.gov and should be received no later than November 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM CST. No phone calls please. Thank you for your assistance with this request. LABOR CATEGORY 1: PROGRAMMER ANALYST III Minimum/General Experience: Six (6) years experience. Experience includes: demonstrated experience with third and fourth generation programming languages, experience with object-oriented programming, ability to develop complex software to satisfy design objectives, and experience developing software for data base management systems. General experience includes knowledge of Internet working, client/server environments, and demonstrated experience supervising software development projects. Functional Responsibility: Supervises software development projects. Develops logic flow charts and pseudo-code. Translates software specifications into software applications. Tests, debugs, and refines software to produce the required product. Prepares required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation. Enhances software to reduce operating time or improve efficiency. Provides daily supervision to staff members. Oversees computer programmers and reviews their work to create or maintain operating systems, communications software, data base management systems, compilers, assemblers, and utility programs. Modifies existing software as well as creates special-purpose software to ensure efficiency and integrity between systems and applications. Provides supervision to staff members. Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree, preferably in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience. LABOR CATEGORY 2: PROGRAMMER ANALYST II Minimum/General Experience: 3-6 years experience which includes experience as an applications programmer on data base management systems, knowledge of computer equipment and ability to perform computer programming in order to develop complex software to satisfy design objectives. Demonstrated ability to work independently or under only general direction. Functional Responsibility: Analyzes functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities. Develops block diagrams and logic flowcharts. Translates detailed design into computer software. Tests, debugs and refines computer software to produce the required product. Prepares required documentation, including both program and user-level documentation. Enhances software to reduce operating time or improve efficiency. Provides technical direction to programmers to ensure program deadlines are met. Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree, preferably in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience. LABOR CATEGORY 3: PROGRAMMER ANALYST Minimum/General Experience: Zero to Two (2) years of experience depending on formal education. Designs, codes and documents portions of applications programs for large scale electronic computers and associated equipment appropriate to scientific systems, or commercial projects. Individual holding this position works under close supervision and direction. May provide work direction to one or more lower level employees on a project. Functional Responsibility: Must be able to perform technical work of professional level using standard programming methods and techniques. Develops detailed flowcharts and associated documentation for assigned areas from general program statements. Capable of using detailed, coding level flowcharts and associated prose, codes assigned segments of a program using machine and/or other programming languages. Ability to develop test data and routines. Tests all code personally produced, and assist in the testing of the total program. Documents procedures used in standardized terminology. Capable of maintaining files and records of some or all operational data received. Ability to provide theoretical analysis where project requires it to assist in coming to a practical solution of problems and eliminating unnecessary "trial and error" solutions. Minimum Education: Associates degree and two (2) years of experience or four (4) years of relevant experience in an associated discipline. Industry Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering. LABOR CATEGORY 4: DATABASE ENGINEER Minimum/General Experience: Eight years of increasingly complex and progressive experience in performing systems analysis, development, and implementation of business, mathematical, or scientific settings using a variety of information technology resources. Has experience with current technologies and, where required for the task, emerging technologies. Functional Responsibility: Performs one or more of the following tasks in support of computer database administration: architects, designs, oversee the development of, or administers computerized databases, installs the applicable databases onto the appropriate computer operating systems, creates databases, configure databases (for a data warehousing application), use import utilities to install databases. Includes creation of Indexes, Clusters, Snapshots, Views, and other database objects, as well as, management of Rollback Segments, Data File Size, and all the other aspects related to the performance tuning of databases. Write code for update queries, update data dictionaries as new fields are added to the database, and maintain a data correction log. Create and maintain data correction logs that identify the date the correction that was performed, tables and fields effected, submission effected, error code effected, and other pertinent metadata. Expand and update the data dictionary for the database and any related applications. May, assign personnel to various projects and directs their activities; reviews and evaluates their work and prepares performance reports. Confers with and advises subordinates on administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities and methods. Consults with and advises users of the various databases. Projects long-range requirements for database administration and design in conjunction with other managers in the information systems function. Prepares activity and progress reports regarding the database management section. Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a curriculum or major field of study. LABOR CATEGORY 5: DATABASE ANALYST Minimum/General Experience: Four years of increasingly complex and progressive experience in performing systems analysis and implementation of database applications, business, mathematical, or scientific support using a variety of data related information technology resources. Has experience with current technologies and, where required for the task, emerging technologies. Functional Responsibility: Formulates and defines system scope and objectives for assigned projects. Prepares detailed specifications for data support. Responsible for functional design, testing, and roll-out. Has full technical knowledge and responsibility of all phases of user interface analysis and implementation. Understands the business or function for which application is designed. Duties also include instructing, directing and checking the work of other systems analysts and development personnel. Responsible for quality assurance review. Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college, university, or equivalent experience with a curriculum or major field of study. LABOR CATEGORY 6: WEB DEVELOPER II Minimum/General Experience: Five (5) years of IT service experience, including two (2) years of specialized Web design and Development. Functional Responsibility: The functional responsibilities areas consist of, but are not limited to any of the following: Provide technical supervision for Web development projects. Ensure implementation of technical solutions and schedules. Apply new and emerging technologies to the web page development process. Translate applications requirements into web pages to provide internet solutions that enable customers to make information available to the general public in the Web friendly format. Knowledge of languages such as C, C++, Java, ActiveX, Perl, and VRML. Integrate applications and web pages to serve either as stand-alone site or as the front end to web-based applications. Perform requirements analyses. Perform object-oriented programming. Test, debug, integrate, and enhance software using object-oriented principles and rapid prototyping. Participate in planning and development of database management, security, maintenance, and utilization. Produce logic flowcharts and pseudo-code. Test and evaluate web-based systems for acceptance. Develop Internet/Intranet applications and home pages. Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree, preferably in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience. LABOR CATEGORY 7: WEB DEVELOPER Minimum/General Experience: Two (2) years of specialized Web design and Development. Functional Responsibility: Devises and prepares ebusiness requirements. Confers with end-users and technical personnel to identify functional issues and types of data to be processed. Analyzes functional issues and determines best-suited ebusiness strategies and tool sets to accomplish users' goals and objectives. Explores emerging technological tools related to the internet and applicability to users' requirements. Develops analytical reports or other products. Ensures all work is done in compliance with customer's system development life cycle procedures. Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree, preferably in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline; or equivalent work experience. LABOR CATEGORY 8: SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Minimum/General Experience: Minimum two (2) years of experience Functional Responsibility: Manages and maintains workstation and server environment in support of development and production systems. Performs activities that support the operations and integrity of computing systems and their use and manage their intricacies. These activities minimally include system installation, configuration, integration, maintenance, performance management, data management, security management, failure analysis and recovery, and user support. In an inter-networked computing environment, the computer network is often included as part of the complex computing system. Minimum Education: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and two (2) years of experience, an additional 4 years of experience could be substituted for the degree. LABOR CATEGORY 9: PROJECT MANAGER Minimum/General Experience: A minimum of eight (8) years general related experience, four (4) of which must be as a project manager. Experience includes increasing responsibilities in program and project management and information systems design. Functional Responsibility: Provides administrative and technical leadership to projects; Sets strategic direction of projects. Develops project plans that identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics and resources required; Designs processes to address identified problems. Establishes team membership and negotiates time commitments and resource allocation. Motivates team members and facilitates team meetings; Acts as liaison, problem solver, and facilitator; Provides guidance to team on performance and productivity issues Minimum Education: A Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business, engineering or related scientific or technical discipline. PMI certification preferred. LABOR CATEGORY 10: FUNCTIONAL /BUSINESS ANALYST III Minimum/General Experience: Minimum 10 years of related experience 6 of which should be for business case or functional areas. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to formulate and document proposed system solutions in comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative terms appropriate for comparative analysis. Functional Responsibility: Leads and/or coordinates the evaluation, redesign and re-engineering of current business processes to ensure effective and efficient use of business information technology and resources, and improve process performance. Recommends cost-effective solutions to meet management goals and objectives. Documents the business requirements and recommended solution. Analyzes, designs, and develops business processes for large information systems. Analyzes and evaluates existing business processes and procedures in business / functional areas; identifies problems; and develops solutions that achieve optimum performance and cost effectiveness. Analyzes user needs to determine functional and cross-functional requirements. Performs functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships. Guides other analysts in the project. Identifies resources required for each task. Minimum Education: A Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, engineering or related field. LABOR CATEGORY 11: FUNCTIONAL /BUSINESS ANALYST II Minimum/General Experience: Minimum 6 years of related experience 3 of which should be for business case or functional areas. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to formulate and document proposed system solutions in comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative terms appropriate for comparative analysis. Functional Responsibility: Interacts effectively on the evaluation, redesign and re-engineering of current business processes to ensure effective and efficient use of business information technology and resources, and improve process performance. Recommends cost-effective solutions to meet management goals and objectives. Documents the business requirements and recommended solution. Analyzes, designs, and develops business processes for large information systems. Analyzes and evaluates existing business processes and procedures in business / functional areas; identifies problems; and develops solutions that achieve optimum performance and cost effectiveness. Analyzes user needs to determine functional and cross-functional requirements. Performs functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships. Identifies resources required for each task. Minimum Education: A Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, engineering or related field. LABOR CATEGORY 12: FUNCTIONAL/ BUSINESS ANALYST Minimum/General Experience: Minimum 3 years of related experience 1 of which should be for business case or functional areas. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to formulate and document proposed system solutions in comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative terms appropriate for comparative analysis. Functional Responsibility: Analyzes, designs, and develops business processes for large information systems. Analyzes and evaluates existing business processes and procedures in business / functional areas; identifies problems; and develops solutions that achieve optimum performance and cost effectiveness. Involved in the evaluation, redesign and re-engineering of current business processes to ensure effective and efficient use of business information technology and resources, and improve process performance. Recommends cost-effective solutions to meet management goals and objectives. Documents the business requirements and recommended solution. Analyzes user needs to determine functional and cross-functional requirements. Performs functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships. Identifies resources required for each task. Minimum Education: A Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, engineering or related field. LABOR CATEGORY 13: QUALITY ANALYST Minimum/General Experience: Minimum 2 years experience in testing methodologies Responsible for all of the testing activities. Functional Responsibility: Responsible for executing test cases for particular applications and completing test reports, may have to become involved with the creation of test cases and test plans; works across many systems so the ability to quickly assimilate application information and work many tasks concurrently is essential. Minimum Education: A Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, engineering or related field. LABOR CATEGORY 14: HELP DESK SUPPORT SPECIALIST Minimum/General Experience: Two (2) year experience with computer system maintenance support, including installation, programming, and cabling; knowledge of operating systems and software applications. Functional Responsibility: Provides second-tier support to end-users for PC, server, mainframe applications, and hardware. Handles problems that the first-tier of help desk support is unable to resolve. May interact with network services, software systems engineering, and/or applications development to restore service and/or identify and correct core problem. Simulates or recreates user problems to resolve operating difficulties. Recommends systems modifications to reduce user problems. Minimum Education: BS or a High School Diploma along with specialized technical training and two years of experience LABOR CATEGORY 15: DISASTER RECOVERY ADMINISTRATOR Minimum/General Experience: Minimum four (4) years of experience in Disaster planning and recovery Functional Responsibility: Designs and administers programs to include policies, standards, guidelines, training programs, and a viable quality assurance process for disaster recovery. Oversees and reviews the testing and implementation of software, data systems, and data networks to ensure that the integrity and security of electronic data and data systems are adequately protected. Facilitates the preparation of an organization-wide business resumption plan. Minimum Education: A Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, engineering or related field. LABOR CATEGORY 16: COMPUTER SECURITY SPECIALIST Minimum/General Experience: Minimum four (4) years of experience Functional Responsibility: Under general direction, uses current information security technology disciplines and practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate information assets in accordance with established standards and procedures. Develops and maintains knowledgebase on changing regulatory, threat, and technology landscapes to continually develop or maintain security policies and standards, and ensure compliance throughout the organization. Minimum Education: A Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, engineering or related field. Active CISSP Certification
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