R -- 541611- administrative & management consulting

The Office of Aviation Analysis, within the Office of the Secretary, U. S. Department of Transportation (Department), 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C. 20590 . Response Date: April 18, 2008 This is a Sources Sought Notice for written information only. The Government does not intend to award a contract at this time on the basis of this notice or reimburse the costs incurred by potential offers in providing the information requested herein. The Department of Transportation (Department) is addressing various deficiencies in its aviation traffic data and to align the collection of aviation traffic data received from airlines with current airline industry systems and practices. The Department requests scope definitions and the requirements definition phase of a project to implement a new information system to process the Department's aviation passenger traffic and fare data. The Department initiated a revision of the rules governing the collection, processing, and dissemination of airline traffic data currently collected pursuant to 14 CFR Parts 241 and 249 by issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published in the Federal Register on February 17, 2005 in Volume 70, Number 32, Pages 8139-8198. This document can be found in the Department of Transportation Docket DOT-OST-1998-4043 with an entry date of February 17, 2005 at the website http://www.regulations.gov. The NPRM proposed that the Department revise in particular the data found in the Origin-Destination Survey of Airline Passenger Traffic (O&D Survey) to collect additional data elements that it currently lacks, and to propose an improved collection methodology with the following goals: (1) Collect and store information that policy makers require to discharge their duty to develop and maintain a sound air transportation system in a way that is consistent with commercial developments, (2) Align data collection with modern passenger revenue accounting methods in a way that will, to the greatest extent practicable, minimize the data reporting burden on air carriers, (3) Collect and disseminate information that enables users to understand and analyze air travel, the purchase of air travel, and the taxes on air travel, from, to, and within the U.S, (4) Track and manage information in a manner consistent with the Department's Information Dissemination Quality Guidelines, (5) Integrate data elements to allow seamless association of attribute information between the O&D Survey and the Department's flown segment data collected under the Department's Form-41 T100/T100(f) program and combined with other ancillary data in order to maximize the usefulness and effectiveness of the information, (6) Protect the trade secrets of corporations. The Department is soliciting Sources to provide expertise for the two objectives (listed below) of the proposed contract. The first objective requires extensive airline industry expertise. The second objective requires extensive Information Technology expertise. (1) Create a System Scope Document: The first objective is to reexamine the issues surrounding the features of the Department's aviation data collection rules for which the Department sought comment in the NPRM but that remain without consensus following the comment period of the NPRM. The objective includes verifying the feasibility of the Department's proposal and examining and verifying the feasibility of the suggested modifications to that proposal made by commenters. The Department must decide what will be included in the system design, what will be excluded from the system design, and what will be deferred for future development. The Contractor will use aviation industry knowledge and expertise to identify and document the (1) feasibility, (2) desirability and benefit, and (3) the detriment and cost of each unresolved issue. Using the identified project goals and the Contractor's knowledge and experience as a guide, the Contractor will recommend a course of action for each issue. (2) Describe the Functions and Features: The second objective is to further identify, define, and document the detailed descriptions of the functions and features of an integrated airline traffic data warehouse that integrates itinerary information reported in the O&D Survey and flown segment information reported in the T100 and the T100(f). The identification, analysis, definition, and description of these functions and features comprise the requirements definition phase of the Aviation Data Modernization project, and the final list of functions and features will be considered the basic requirements of the new system. The descriptions will be fully developed deliverable-oriented business requirements entered in a widely recognized and available information technology requirements management system. They will be described in sufficient narrative and technical detail such that non-technical stakeholders can understand the system's capabilities, and information technology system architects can use the system's operating and performance specifications to create a technical system design. Sources interested in this requirement shall provide capabilities statements with information on technical capabilities to perform the tasks listed above, provide information regarding past performance explaining or demonstrating how similar activities were performed on projects of similar size or scope. No standard brochures will be considered as sufficient response to this notice. Capabilities statement should include: Source Name, Contact Information: Address, Telephone, Facsimile, and Email, Technical description of previous experience performing contracts comparable to these services listed above over the past three years. The description of prior experience must include for each contract number, dollar value, customer, the name, telephone number, and email address of the customer point of contact and a summary level description of the work performed. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only, this is not a notice of a solicitation, and does not constitute a Government agreement to contract. Sources must indicate whether they are a Large Business or Small Business (identify status, if applicable, 8A, Hubzone, Service Disabled Veteran, Woman Owned, etc.) under the above NAICS codes. Questions regarding this notice may be sent in writing only to the Contracting Officer. The Government does not intend to pay for information furnished in response hereto. The responses (an original and one (1) copy) or electronic media copy on a CD in unzipped format using Microsoft Word are required by 1:00 P.M. on April 18, 2008 to the attention of Carmencita Jones, Contracting Officer, Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), Acquisition Services Division, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E., Room W83-485, Washington, DC, 20590. No Phone calls will be accepted. In the near future the Department intends to issue a competitive best value solicitation to those Source Sought Sources. The intended contract is to have a one-year base period and four one-year option periods. This competition is planned to be held as a Full and Open Competition in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Part 15: Contracting by Negotiations. Point of Contact Carmencita Jones, Contracting Officer, Phone 202-493-0130, Fax 202-366-7510, Email Carmencita.Jones@dot.gov secondary Darlene.Robinson@dot.gov - Contracting Officer, Phone 202-366-5935, Fax 202-366-7510.,