IT Lifecycle Support for FDA's Food Application Regulatory Managment (FARM) System

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE FOR INFORMATION AND ACQUISITION PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. This is not a request for quote or proposal. This notice does not constitute a commitment by the Government to issue an RFP, RFQ, contract, or order. The Government will not pay for any effort expended or any material provided in response to this announcement. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response. This Sources Sought is being issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to collect information regarding industry capabilities to provide continued IT Lifecycle Support for the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition's (CFSAN) Food Application Regulatory Management (FARM) System. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Interested companies must submit the following information: 1. Interested companies shall provide the following Business Information (page limit - 2 pages) a. DUNS Number b. Company Name c. Company Address. d. Company Point of Contact, phone number and email address e. Type of company under NAICS, as validated via the System for Award Management (SAM). Additional information on NAICS codes can be found at www.sba.gov. Any potential government contract must be registered on the SAM located at http://www.sam.gov/index.asp. f. Corporate structure (corporation, LLC, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability partnership, professional corporation, etc.); g. Current GSA Schedules appropriate to this Sources Sought h. Current Government Wide Agency Contracts (GWACs) i. Point of Contact, phone number and email address of individuals who can verify the demonstrated capabilities identified in the responses. j. Any applicable Socio-Economical Classification(s): 8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-owned, Veteran-Owned, Women-Owned and Small Disadvantaged Business. 2. Capability Statement limited to 15 pages addressing at a minimum the following: a. Does your organization have a Capability Maturity Model Level III or higher in Software Development? b. Identify a relevant project (no more than 1 project) demonstrating organizational experience providing IT Lifecycle Support services for the commercial industry or Government? The relevant project shall provide the project title, project description, dollar value, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, list of tasks performed, customer name, project duration, and contract number. c. Identify relevant project(s) (no more than 4 projects) demonstrating organizational experience configuring, integrating, and implementing the same technologies as FDA's FARM System (e.g. Appian Tempo, Appian on-premise and Cloud, Appian Workflows, J2EE, JavaScripts, Weblogics, Solr Search Engine, Oracle Database, EMC Captiva InputAccel, Adobe AEM). Each relevant project shall provide the project title, project description, dollar value, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, list of activities performed, customer name, project duration, and contract number. d. Identify relevant project(s) (no more than 3 projects) demonstrating organizational experience utilizing similar supporting technologies as FDA's FARM System (1) Content Management / Documentum Repository; 2) change management and help desk tracking technologies / JIRA; and 3) Business Objects / Data Analytics). Each relevant project shall at a minimum provide the project title, project description, list of activities performed, dollar value, list of technologies applicable to FARM, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, customer name, and project duration. e. Identify relevant project(s) (no more than 2 projects) demonstrating organizational experience in which your company developed and implemented data standards applicable to the current and future state FARM System (e.g. HL7, RPS2 and RPS3, ISO) Each relevant project shall provide the project title, project description, dollar value, list of technologies applicable to FARM, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, customer name, and project duration. f. Identify relevant project (no more than 1 project) demonstrating organizational experience with conducting data migration of on premise systems to the cloud. Each relevant project shall provide the project title, project description, list of activities performed, dollar value, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, customer name, and project duration. g. Identify relevant project(s) (no more than 2 projects) demonstrating organizational experience providing public facing regulatory online submissions support for industry and /or Government. Each relevant project shall provide the project title, project description, dollar value, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, list of activities performed, customer name, and project duration. h. Identify a relevant project (no more than 1) demonstrating organizational experience with Master Data Management (MDM). The relevant project shall provide the project title, project description, dollar value, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, list of activities performed, customer name, and project duration. i. Identify a relevant project (no more than 1) demonstrating organizational experience maintaining a Datawarehouse such as Amazon Redshift. The relevant project shall provide the project title, project description, dollar value, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, list of activities performed, customer name, and project duration. j. Identify a relevant project (no more than 2) demonstrating organizational experience configuring systems to push and pull data to and from other systems using Micro-Service Architecture (MSA) and web service API development. Each relevant project shall provide the project title, project description, dollar value, contractor's role: prime or subcontractor, list of activities performed, customer name, and project duration. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. Interested parties having the capabilities necessary to perform the stated requirements may submit capability statements via email. Responses shall be limited to 17 pages. Responses must be received in writing, by no later than December 12, 2018, 1:30 PM, Eastern Time. Capability statements will not be returned and will not be accepted after the due date. Documentation should be emailed to: Jody OKash at Jody.OKash@fda.hhs.gov. The title of the email shall include the FBO Sources Sought Number and Company Name: FDA-SS-19-1207753 / CompanyName.