SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Data Reporting and Business Intelligence (DRBI) Project
- Notice Date
- 5/10/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 2129, Rockville, Maryland, 20857-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20857-0001
- Solicitation Number
- FDA-SS-1086180
- Archive Date
- 6/2/2011
- Point of Contact
- Jody L. O'Kash, Phone: 301-827-5094
- E-Mail Address
-
Jody.O'Kash@fda.hhs.gov
(Jody.O'Kash@fda.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought Notice From: Food & Drug Administration, Department of Health & Human Services Subject: Operations and Maintenance of FDA's Data Reporting Business Intelligence (DRBI) Reporting System Date: May 10, 2011 THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY AND YOUR RESPONSE IS NOT AN OFFER. THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION DOES NOT COMMIT THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY ANY COSTS INCURRED IN PREPARATION OF ANY SUBMISSION TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE, OR TO CONTRACT FOR SERVICES. Background: The purpose of this notice is to obtain vendor feedback on the availability of providers and to determine interest in participation before a potential Request for Proposal (RFP) is released for the following required services. The anticipated period of performance is a base period of one year and four option periods of one year duration each. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires contractor support to assist in creating, producing, and providing canned / ad-hoc reports to FDA Users that need access to information regarding FDA's drug and biologic applications and drug and biologic products, including associated information such as marketing and advertising. This effort is referred to as the Data Reporting and Business Intelligence project (DRBI). The DRBI team currently utilizes an XIR2 Business objects environment, will upgrade to XIR3 by November 2011, and could potentially go beyond XIR3 in the next five years. DRBI runs on Solaris 10 / Oracle 10g databases. There are 10 CDER transactional database systems that the FDA DRBI team uses to populate reports: Document Archiving, Reporting and Regulatory Tracking (DARRTS) and nine other systems referred to collectively as the legacy refresh systems (LX). In addition to the general DRBI report Operation and Maintenance activities listed above, the FDA also anticipates the contractor to assist in design and development of a Report Repository and / or Data Store which will eventually be incorporated into the environment to replace the retrieval of report information directly from the operational DAARTs and LX transactional database systems. Contractors shall submit capability statements that reflect their companies experience and expertise in the following: •IT Life Cycle Development Phases and documentation •Rapid Application Development methodology (RAD) •Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMM )Level II certification or equal to knowledge / expertise •Mervant Version Manager or similar software •IBM Rationale RequisitePro, Performance, Test Manager, Functional Management Software. •Production of reports in a Business Objects Universe / Solaris 10 database / Oracle 10g databases (Oracle 11g experience is helpful) •Business Objects XIR2 and XIR3 Versions, to include Business Objects Designer Business Objects Desktop Intelligence, Business Objects Web Intelligence, Business Objects Infoview, Business Objects Central Management Consol •Toad •ERWIN •Collecting requirements, designing, developing, producing and implementing Data Repositories / Marts / Stores / Warehouses •Informatica Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tool or a similar tool. •PQ / SQL and J2EE •Data Migration •Citrix •Single Sign-On •Oracle Identify Management (or similar) •User / Account Support •Call and online help support •Test, Development, Pre-Production, and Production Environments •User Acceptance / Performance Testing •Configuration Management •General Change Management Procedures. Questions: Please also provide feedback and recommendations regarding availability and commercial practice involving the above services. Interested vendors are requested to include the following in their response: 1. Name of organization with telephone/fax numbers, and name, email address, and mailing address of primary point of contact. 2. Brief description of your organization's capabilities. 3. Organization's business size status (e.g., large or small business, specific category of small business). 4. Is your company capable of assembling a team capable of the performing the work. 5. If a small business, can your company assemble a team that performs at least 51% of the work (by dollar value)? Please provide a capability statement that describes your ability to perform each of the tasks. 6. Which NAICS code is most appropriate for a potential solicitation with the above requirements? 7. If available, identification of the firm's GSA Schedule contract(s) by Schedule number and contract number and SINs that are applicable to this potential requirement. 8. Do you understand what the FDA requires, which facilities it is required at, and for how long the services are required? If not, what information needs to be added and/or reworded? 9. General Question(s), if any, relating to the above requirements that need to be clarified prior to release of a potential RFP. Please provide the above information no later than 12:00 PM on May 18, 2011. Responses should be e-mailed to: jody.o'kash@fda.hhs.gov. The point of contact for this action is Jody O'Kash at Jody.O'Kash@fda.hhs.gov or 301-827-5094.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: All tasks will be performed at a Government facility located in the Washington DC metro area., United States
- Record
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