The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Information Technology Acquisitions and Assessment Center (NITAAC), through this procurement, intends to award multiple Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts for acquiring a wide range of Information Technology (IT) products, services, and solutions for the Institutes and Centers of the NIH and all other federal agencies. The focus is to proactively address issues deemed vital to the federal government and specifically to provide support to the CIO function in its critical role of helping the federal agency executive to deliver results (relative to program performance and costs) in the new millennium. Through this procurement, the NITAAC will provide multiple, non-mandatory Task/Delivery Order contracts with improved response time and at equitable and reasonable prices to our customers. The geographic scope of this requirement includes the Continental United States and abroad.
This contract is intended to cover the gamut of IT efforts. The following task areas and examples of the types of tasks included under each are listed below. Other IT tasks, as required, may be obtained under this statement of work (SOW). The SOW contained herein is intended to outline the general requirement required of vendors under CIO-SP2. Specific details of task assignments, deliverables, documentation, training, applicable government/department/industry standards, etc., will be provided within individual task orders.
The objective of contract and task order management is to provide the program management, project control and contract administration necessary to manage a high volume, multiple contract type task order process for a large, diversified team so that the cost, schedule and quality requirements of each order are tracked, communicated to the government, and ultimately attained. The use of commercially available automated tools (e.g., a LAN or web based contract task management system) and the application of expertise on processes and metrics that support task order management are encouraged to achieve the above objectives. The objective of the tools is to provide quicker access, improved accuracy, and enhanced accessibility for contractors/clients, real-time monitoring of status/deliverables, tracking the quality of work products and gauging overall customer satisfaction.
Numerous laws, regulations, and policies have been enacted in the last several years to include the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Computer Security Act, Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) #63, Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and the Clinger-Cohen Act. In particular, the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-106, Division E-Information Technology Management Reform, Title LI-Responsibility For Acquisitions Of Information Technology) established the Chief Information Officer (CIO) position in federal agencies. The objective of CIO Support is to provide support to CIOs in the implementation of these laws, regulations, and polices. New CIO practices have evolved as they work to implement these laws, regulations, and policies. A non-exhaustive list of examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area is as follows:
The objective of the outsourcing task is to provide the information technology (IT) infrastructure and IT services required to assume management of government IT resources and IT business functions. A non-exhaustive list of examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area is as follows:
The contractor shall provide IT operations support and maintenance procedures for IT systems. A non-exhaustive list of examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area is as follows:
The contractor shall operate and maintain IT systems at current vendor release levels or government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) applications software upgrades. Operations and maintenance on IT systems shall include all software and hardware associated with mainframe CPUs, PC-client/server, network-backbone-front end processors and all networks (e.g., MILNET, NIPRNET, SIPRNET)
The objective of integration services is to improve business practices by analysis of the process, and applying information technology components. System integration encompasses all activities necessary to develop and deploy an information system. It includes the integration of technical components, organizational components and documentation. The information technology components are engineered and integrated into the business function. The area of system integration may make use of program management, technical laboratories, prototypes, pilot systems and tools/methodologies germane to business analysis and business processing reengineering. A non-exhaustive list of examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area is as follows:
The protection of critical infrastructure and assurance of agency information continues to be a CIO focus area. Information assurance is defined here as those operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, restoration, authentication, non-repudiation, protection, detection, monitoring, and event react capabilities. A non-exhaustive list of examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area is as follows:
Digital government is the provision of government services through digital, electronic means. A non-exhaustive list of examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area is as follows:
ERP is an integrated set of software applications used to control, monitor, and coordinate key business activities across an enterprise. ERP applications generally fall into the following categories: Financials, Human Resources, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Projects, and Front Office. A non-exhaustive list of examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area is as follows:
The contractor shall operate and maintain IT systems, IT equipment, hardware, software, IT processes, and IT procedures that support Government clinical and research activities. The objective is to directly support researchers and clinicians by performing health care systems studies, and providing operational, technical, and maintenance services for the systems, subsystems, and equipment that interface with and are extensions to information systems. This task area provides support to intramural researchers (e.g., computational bio-science).
This task area addresses customized software applications, database applications, and other solutions not available in off-the-shelf modular software applications. A non-exhaustive list of examples of the type of work to be performed under this task area is as follows:
Contract Number: HHSN263999900046I
Sponsor: National Institute of Health (NIH)
Program Ceiling: $19 Billion
Expiration Date: December 20, 2011
Type of TOs: T&M, CPFF, CPAF, FFP
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