AMENDMENT 002 --This amendment addresses questions received for solicitation NFFK000123JMH and extends the response due date to May 17, 2005. 1. What is the location for the knowledge transfer? At NOAA Fisheries. 2. Are the combined technical and pricing proposals limited to 10 pages or is it a 10 page limit for each? Does 10 page limit include cover pages and table of contents? The technical and pricing proposals together must be no more than 10 pages. The cover page and table of contents is not included in the 10 page limitation. 3. Will NOAA Fisheries host the test environment? Yes 4. Can you send examples of the additional permit types (Harassment authorizations, species parts)? What processes do they go through? Is this the same as the application process? Detailed information about permits is available on our web site: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/ Including sample permit documents: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/review.htm 5. Explain what is meant by linkage to the NOAA Fisheries PCTS System? Will the system need to transfer data or just have a link that takes the user to the PCTS system? The PCTS web site is: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pcts/ The system will need to link to records in PCTS, and vice-versa, but no data transfer is anticipated. 6. What are you anticipating for system maintenance? How many users are supported? Maintenance should include tuning/indexing, changes required by security and software upgrades, minor edits and fixes of bugs encountered. Anticipated users: several administrators, ~40 permit analysts, 500+ permit applicants/holders, moderate web traffic from public/guest users (no account needed). 7. For the enhancement: "Allow permit holders to submit multiple end-of-year reports on approved projects that span multiple years" - does this mean they would submit a report at the end of each year of the project or multiple end-of-year report types? Permit Holders would need to submit a report at the end of each year of their multi-year project. 8. What types of user roles (admin, public user, etc.) are required for the system? Administrator, permit analyst, permit applicant/holder, public/guest (no account needed) THE END This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The provisions and clauses in effect are herby incorporated through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-03. This solicitation is advertised as a competitive requirement set aside for Small Businesses. The purpose of this solicitation is to extend the functionality of the NOAA Fisheries existing web-based application for managing Authorization and Permits for Protected Species (APPS) http://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov. Members of the public can submit, track, and query applications online. Permit specialists at NOAA Fisheries and the state fisheries agencies of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho manage authorizations and permits using the system. The application has been built to handle permits and authorization required under the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act. Web and database development must use Cold Fusion MX/MX2004 and SQL Server 2000. The database must also be accessible using a Microsoft Access interface. The scope of this contract covers Version 4, of the application, which encompasses the below enhancements. Enhancement Process Streamlining shall allow permit holders to submit multiple end-of-year reports on approved projects that span multiple years; allowing the entry and tracking of public comments on applications; and automatic email generation for key stages in the application process. Improved User Interact: Develop user help feature into a contract sensitive, database-driven user help system, allowing printing of 1'individual help pop-up items, and 2'and organized compilation of all help items. Develop the functionality to create merge documents based on document templates and system data, for printing or off-lien editing. Enhance ad-hoc reporting feature to include additional search fields, ability to select specific fields to show in the report, and to save report settings. Develop a default report that generates a list of records, which allows one to see the entire record. Develop functionality for users to download search results into spreadsheet format. The system scope must be expanded to accommodate the major amendments to permits, which require a 30-day public comment period and the same application process as a permit. Minor amendment to permits - processing miner change requests that are simpler then major amendments. Additional Permit Types: 1'incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHA) and 2'Species Parts, including making requests to the Stranding Network. Linkages shall be extended to NOAA Fisheries PCTS system. During and after development, system maintenance is required for web page edits, error fixes, database indexing and tuning, additional fields, and enhanced security. System documentation is required to deliver releasable code of the entire APPS application to NOAA Fisheries APPS team. Deliver complete data dictionary and database relationship diagrams of the entire APPS application to NOAA Fisheries APPS team. Conduct a knowledge transfer meeting with the NOAA Fisheries team. The period of performance is for 2 years. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provisions 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial, applies to this acquisition. Evaluation Factors are based on Technical, Past Performance, and Price. All factors are determined to be equal in weight. Offerors are requested to send past performance of at least two references to be submitted with proposal. The proposal shall not exceed 10 pages. FAR provision, 52.212-3; Offeror Representations and Certifications'Commercial Items (http://www.dnb.com) , FAR clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and conditions - Commercial Items applies to this acquisition, 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required Implementing Statues or Executive Order - Commercial Items. See Note 22. Electronic responses are due May 16, 2005 at 3:00 EST, to the attention of
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