OPPORTUNITY QUALIFICATION SUMMARY

Requirements

The Contractor shall:

• Provide total IT services solutions, including technical support, program management, services management, strategy planning, systems/software engineering, design and development, integration, implementation support, architecture development, studies and analysis, test and evaluation, modeling and simulation, data migration, training, enterprise network engineering, cyber security, operation and maintenance, IT facilities and other solutions encompassing the entire range of IT and Health IT requirements, to include software and hardware incidental to the solution
• Accordingly, Task Orders may include acquisitions of software and IT products. Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) NextGen is not intended as a mechanism to solely purchase IT products. Such products may be purchased to the extent that those products are necessary to deliver the solution required
• These services, as well as related IT products, may encompass the entire life-cycle of a system. Moreover, services and related products covered under this contract shall be global in reach and the Contractors must be prepared to provide services and deliverables worldwide

Functional Areas

• 4.1 Program Management (PM), Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Planning Support: This functional area is to provide Program and Project Management, monitoring and analysis, strategy, enterprise architecture and planning support. These services may be at the enterprise or on an individual project level
• 4.2 Systems /Software Engineering: This functional area is to provide systems/software engineering support for any or all phases of a system/software lifecycle and can cover the entire range of VA systems to include healthcare information processing, benefits information processing, decision support systems etc
• 4.3 Software Technology Demonstration and Transition: This functional area is to test and evaluate advanced technologies
• 4.4 Test and Evaluation: This functional area is to provide support in all phases of the testing life cycle
• 4.5 IV&V: This functional area is to review, evaluate and verify the procedures used to develop and test third party systems/software
• 4.6 Enterprise Network: This functional area is to provide comprehensive life cycle systems/network administration for VA enterprise systems worldwide
• 4.7 Enterprise Management Framework: This functional area is to support the execution of the enterprise management framework
• 4.8 Operations and Maintenance: This functional area is to operate, repair and maintain systems, applications, and IT environments in support of applications and/or system components for production environments
• 4.9 Cyber Security: This functional area is to define and deliver strategic, operational and process aspects of cyber security and to ensure that adequate LAN/Internet, data, information and system security are in accordance with organizational standard operating procedures, conditions, laws and regulations
• 4.10 Training: This functional area is to identify training requirements and to obtain, develop or conduct training programs throughout the life cycle of a system, application or product
• 4.11 IT Facilities: This functional area is to provide a total IT solution to the customer. Requirement does not include performing significant facility or building construction/modification

Period of Performance

T4NG On-Ramp Contract Award(s) Effective: March 6, 2021 through March 6, 2026 (T4NG Expiration Date)

Proposal Submission Instructions

The Offeror’s proposal shall be submitted electronically via VOA in the files set forth below. The Offeror’s proposal shall consist of six volumes.

• I -Technical
• II – Past Performance
• III –Veterans Employment
• IV –Small Business Participation Commitment
• V – Price
• VI – Solicitation, Offer and Award Documents and Certifications/Representations.

Evaluation Factors for Award

Any awards to be made will be based on the best overall (i.e., best value) proposals that are determined to be the most beneficial to the Government, with appropriate consideration given to the following five (5) evaluation factors: Technical, Past Performance, Veterans Employment, SBPC, and Price. The Technical Factor is significantly more important than the Past Performance Factor, which is slightly more important than the Veterans Employment Factor, which is slightly more important than the SBPC Factor, which is slightly more important than the Price Factor. The Technical Factor has two (2) Sub-factors: Sample Task Sub-factor and Management Sub-factor. Within the Sample Task Sub-factor, Sample Task 1 and Sample Task 2 are equally important. The Sample Task Sub-factor is significantly more important than the Management Sub-factor. All non-price factors, when combined, are significantly more important than the Price Factor. To receive consideration for award, a rating of no less than “Acceptable” must be achieved for the Technical Factor, all Technical Sub-factors, and the SBPC Factor. Offerors are cautioned that the awards may not necessarily be made to the lowest Price offered or the most highly rated technical proposals.

In Step One, Offerors shall submit a response to Sample Task 1 and provide the Price Volume. Offerors must be verified in the Vendor Information Pages (VIP) Database as a SDVOSB and qualify as a small business in the System for Award Management (SAM) under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 541512 at the time of Step One proposal submission; the Government will not evaluate Step One proposal submissions from ineligible Offerors. Following the evaluation of Sample Task 1 and the Price Volume, the Government will set a competitive range consisting of the most highly rated proposals. The Government may then elect to conduct discussions (limited solely to the Price Volume) with those Offerors remaining in the competitive range or proceed directly to Step Two with those Offerors remaining in the competitive range.

Notes

• In response to the DRAFT RFP, the Government will accept questions and comments submitted to [email protected] no later than October 11, 2019. The subject line should clearly read: “Questions in response to DRAFT T4NG On-Ramp RFP.”