70 -- SSA Intends to Negotiate Solely with DLT Solutions, Inc.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to negotiate solely with DLT Solutions, Inc. 13861 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 400, Herndon, VA 20171 for the requirements specified herein under the authority provided in Federal Acquisition Regulation 13.106-1(b), as the Contracting Officer has determined that circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available. SSA requires the continuation of JBoss Consulting Support for DSI initiatives and other Internet applications being converted to the WebSphere platform. This technical support will ensure that SSA has the ability to continue to support the Web applications already using this technology as well as provide a solid foundation for engineering process-centric applications. The vendor shall provide 5 days of on-site technical support, one year of 24/7 telephone support, and jBPM Workshop Support. Services will be performed Monday-Thursday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ET. Work outside of these hours, weekends, or on recognized holidays must be pre-approved in advance. The technical person is expected to perform the following tasks 1) Provide consulting support for the design of SSA?s SOA architecture; 2) Assist on any architecture, installation, configuration, or deployment issues; 3) Assist with performance tuning, design, development, integration, roll out, support and optimization of the JBoss Middleware Suite; and, 4) Provide mentoring to client development resources in the use of JBoss technologies and best practices. The vendor shall also provide: 1) maintenance support consisting of jBPM Framework, Premium, 32 CPU (for servers only) 2 developer contacts and 10 production contacts, telephone support for all SSA applications, 24/7 for a one year period of December 15, 2007 through December 14, 2008; and, 2) an instructor at SSA Headquarters, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235 to instruct SSA developers in jBPM Workshop. Interested parties are invited to submit information concerning their capabilities, experience, and other data pertinent to their ability to maintain jBPM no later than 1:00 p.m. ET December 12, 2007. Pricing data may be submitted. Written responses must provide clear and concise documentation indicating your firm?s capability to provide the proprietary software services. This is not a request for proposal and the Government does not intend to pay for information submitted. Respondents will not be notified of the results of an evaluation of the information received. No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received; however, this information will be used in SSA?s assessment of capable sources. Responses to this notice should refer to jBPMCS 1207. The size limitation for email attachments is five megabytes per individual email message. Only email responses will be permitted. If after 1:00 p.m. December 12, 2007 no viable responses have been received in response to this announcement, SSA shall initiate negotiations solely with DLT Solutions, Inc.