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THIS MODIFICATION DOES NOT SUPERSEDE SYNOPSIS SENT OUT ON 07072000 RATHER IT IS A REQUEST FOR INPUT ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED IN ORIGINAL SYNOPSIS INCLUDING THE DUE DATE REMAINS THE SAME REQUEST FOR INPUT FROM INTERESTED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES In August 1999 CDC created the Comprehensive Information Technology Contract Work Group composed of representatives from the CDCs Centers Institutes and Offices CIOs to develop a recommendation as to the strategic direction CDCATSDR would follow for programming and microcomputer IT contractor support and services The goal was to produce a decision document to serve as a tool to establish a shared understanding of contracting considerations reviewed by CDC provide management with available alternatives and recommend alternatives for contracting mechanisms that can best achieve CDCs mission The Work Group conducted research and evaluation of available information in order to recommend a contracting approach that would be the most advantageous method for CDC to procure a large CDC wide information technology support services contract In addition based on input from the work group members 21 questions were drafted for industry response and a Request for Information was published in the Commerce Business Daily CDC received responses from 24 vendors that addressed the questions included in the RFI Based on the research and evaluation of different types of vehicles following are the six contract alternatives that the work group agreed would be evaluated 1 Two Single Award Contracts 2 Two contracts each with separate scopes and multiple awards to several contractors 3 Multiple award Government Wide Acquisition Contracts 4 Single ScopeSingle Prime Vendor with Subcontractors 5 Multiple ContractorsSingle Scope and 6 Multiple ScopesMultiple Vendors The Work Group Decision Document SubCommittee developed the preliminary document and submitted it to the work group with recommendations for the first and second choice alternatives The Work Group recommended to CDCs management one comprehensive contract with a single prime vendor and a single scope of work combining programming services and microcomputer services as the best approach for CDC to follow Two awards with a single prime vendor one with a microcomputer scope of work and one with a programming services scope of work was recommended as the second best approach for CDC Further it was recommended that the contract be flexible enough to allow task orders to be issued as fixed price TM etc Both alternatives should provide for a manageable environment in which protection of information and systems can be woven readily into CDCs collaborative efforts from conceptual design to ultimate returement of a system To promote flexibility and continuous competition both of these contracting alternatives are nonrequirements and allows CDC to choose other contracting vehicles eg GWACs As a result of the approval of CDC management for a single award nonrequirements type environment using full and open procurement procedures The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC intends to issue a draft request for proposals for the acquisition of information systems development and microcomputer support services followed by a final RFP issued on or about 0101 The contract anticipated to be awarded in 1001 will be a single award IDIQ Task Order type contract with the flexibility to award cost plus fixed fee fixed price time and materials and labor hour task orders dependent on the scope of the statements of work associated with the task order The contract will not be a requirements type contract The period of performance is 7 years with a basic period of performance and annual option periods not to exceed 84 months The estimated number of hours for the effort is 9079000 CDC is pursuing a contract that will include programming services scopes of work which heretofore were small business setasides in Cincinnati Ohio and Morgantown West Virginia as well as the inclusion of the newly awarded 2 12 year CDCwide Microcomputer Support and Services contract also awarded as a total small business setaside CDC will request approval of the bundling of these scopes of work from the Small Business Administration and pending their approval will issue the final RFP with these scopes included in the RFP Anticipated release time for the Draft RFP is late August 2000 The work under this contract is anticipated to consist of a variety of programming and microcomputer support services to CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ATSDR for various information systems technologies and computing platforms which includes mainframe microprocessor workstation and network server technologies and clientserver applications Work involves information and data analysis systems in support of CDCs mission for performing requirements analyses design and development of new systems ensuring information systems security modification maintenance and conversion of existing systems data and database administration training users in both CDCdeveloped and commercial applications hotline user support to application users such as CDC staff and state and local health professionals throughout the US in the use of CDCdeveloped applications programming support for the analysis of scientific statistical and public health data systems integration data conversion and data communications via networking and telecommunications between disparate systems and geographic locations data entry and keypunch support graphics and desktop publishing and computer center facilities operation Work to be performed also includes hardware repair and maintenance of Government microcomputer equipment maintaining a spare parts inventory software support including installation integration operation and user orientation local and wide area network administration and support problem diagnosis and tracking including maintaining a CDCwide Help Desk and video teleconferencing support Existing technology is primarily Pentiumbased microprocessors and installed microcomputers run Windows 95 and NT which are connected to IBM token ring and Ethernet Local Area Networks LANs running Novell NetWare version 411 operating system soon to be upgraded to 5x CDC plans to migrate to Novell NetWare 5x in the near future and to Sonet ring in the next 12 18 months CDCs network topology is a combination of token ring over type 1 cable FDDI over category 5 cable and Ethernet over type 1 or category 5 cable Supported protocols are TCPIP IPX and SPX and CDC interconnects to the Internet The LANs are connected together into a Wide Area Network WAN using multi protocol and high speed routers over fiber optic cable or leased data lines A broadband Metropolitan Area Network MAN interconnects all large Atlanta campuses Currently FDDI is the method used for the WAN Within a 12 18 month period the WAN will use ATM over T1 and the MAN will migrate to an OC48 network Offerors must be capable of repairing and maintaining equipment from a variety of manufacturers ie Dell Compaq AST SUN microcomputers with a few MacIntosh Contract performance will be at CDCs primary offices in Atlanta GA as well as in Washington DC Cincinnati OH Morgantown WV Hyatttsville MD and Research Triangle Park NC as well as in the contractors facilities Travel may also be necessary to other CDC sites such as Anchorage AK San Juan PR and occasional travel outside the United States The draft solicitation will be available on or about August 31 2000 Written or electronic comments only Provide comments not later than 091800 Comments will be included in our SBA request for bundling document Comments should specify RFP 2000N00120 Telephone comments will not be considered Point of Contacts CDC Deborah S Fallick Address 2920 Brandywine Road Atlanta Georgia 30341 Email address dsf2cdcgov SBA Ms Anna Pender Post Office Box 611 Warner Robins Georgia 31099 Telephone 912 9265874
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