NIST Business Systems Division (BSD) Technical Support Services

This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NIST recognizes that proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Background: The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) uses many business applications to support financial, acquisition, grants, travel, and property business operations. The NIST Business Systems Division (BSD) provides functional and technical support for these business applications. BSD supports the business applications for the following customers (hereafter referred to as NIST's customers): Department of Commerce (DOC)-Office of the Secretary (OS), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), Economic Development Administration (EDA), Economic and Statistics Administration (ESA), Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA), First Responders Network Authority (FirstNet), and International Trade Administration (ITA). BSD's customer base may or may not change throughout the life of this contract. The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is targeted to be another NIST customer in FY2020. Requirement: The purpose of this requirement is to acquire functional and technical support services required for the NIST Business Systems Division (BSD). This includes the Core Financial System (CFS), which is the DOC Department-wide financial information system, and related business systems, hereafter collectively referred to as BSD applications, including but not limited to those listed Table 1 of the PWS. The Contractor shall support new applications or technologies that BSD will support during the life of the contract which can result from the replacement of existing applications or technologies. The contractor shall support the technical infrastructure associated with the BSD Applications. Please see the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS) for more details. Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their organization as it relates to the services described in the attached PWS. NIST anticipates issuing a Request for Quotation in the third quarter of FY2018, and awarding a contract no later than the first quarter of FY2019. NIST invites responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses, but is specifically seeking out small businesses. The small business size standard associated with the NAICS code for this effort, 541511, is $27.5 Million. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. Companies that can provide such services are requested to email a written response describing their abilities to contact@example.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The e-mail subject line should include sources sought number "AMDTC-18-0003." The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name, Address, DUNS number, CAGE code, and point of contact information of your company. 2. Any information on the company's small business certifications, if applicable. 3. Description of your company's capabilities as they relate to the services described in this notice and the attached PWS. 4. A description of your company's previous experience providing the services described in this notice. 5. Indication of whether the services described in this notice are currently offered via your company's GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), or other existing Government-wide contract vehicles; and, if so, the contract number(s) for those vehicles. 6. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research. Responses are limited to a total of five (5) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format. Pages shall be 8-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11 Point Font. Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be analyzed) may be included in the 1" margin space.