RECOVERY - SSA's System Operational Support Services

RECOVERY - THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (SSA) FUNDED THIS PROPOSED ACTION BY THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009 (PUB. L. 111-5) (RECOVERY ACT). THE AGENCY PROVIDES THIS NOTICE "FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY." This opportunity is only available to SSA's existing Systems Operational Support Services (SOSS) contractor, Koniag Services, Inc., of Chantilly VA, under Contract Number SS00-09-60009. The SSA issued a single-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a five year period (one year base period, and four one-year option periods) to the contractor, who is recognized as an Alaskin Native Corporation, under the Small business Administration's 8(a) program. The SOSS contract supports SSA's Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Systems, by providing a contractor to support the maintenance and continuity of the Agency's technological and programmatic environment. Support covers the following areas: Mainframe Hardware, Local Area Network Engineering, Network Engineering, Facilities, Communications, Computer Operations, Computer Scheduling and Document Management Imaging. SSA anticipates issuing a labor-hour Task Order (i.e. 0035) to the contractor under the SOSS contract following the ordering procedures in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 16.505, and where supplemented by the Ordering procedures outlined in the basic contract. This Task Order will consolidate, for administrative convenience, the following two Recovery Act funded program support efforts for the National Computer Center (NCC): 1. Recovery - Subtask 35.1: Mainframe Storage Management Programming Support . The objective of this subtask is to have the contractor provide storage management support to manage the increasing number of complex interrelated agency Direct Access Storage Device (DASD) based and tape-based mainframe applications. 2. Recovery - Subtask 35.2: Open Systems Backup and Recovery Administration/Open systems Storage administration . The objective of this subtask is to have the contractor provide support for the Open System Backup and Recovery Team, and the Open Systems Storage Planning and Design Team. The contractor will assist int he design, administration, maintenance, and support of the Open System Storage Management Branch storage infrastructure at the NCC. This notice is for "Informational purposes only." Vendors should not respond.