The Office of Information Technology Integration , Federal Technology Service of the General Services Administration, and the Solutions Development Center established by the Southeast Sunbelt Region (Region 4) and the Greater Southwest Region (Region 7) plan to issue an award term contract currently known as Millennia Lite. We desire to award two contracts to small, SDB or WO businesses within each functional area. Under this national program, Information Technology solutions will be acquired through the use of multiple award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts in four functional areas. The functional areas are: 1) Information Technology Planning, Studies, and Assessment. Functional Area 1 encompasses Information Technology Planning, Studies, and Assessment to assist agency Chief Information Officers and the IRM Officials in implementing the Clinger-Cohen Act; 2) Functional Area 2 is the High-end Information Technology Services (HITS). HITS will provide client agencies a variety of systems support, embedded systems support for complex, high-end information technology engineering life cycle services. This includes, but is not limited to: systems engineering and integration; scientific and engineering applications development; and database application development for embedded systems. HITS requirements are primarily associated with the following disciplines, government mission areas, and associated applications (including technology transfer): Acoustic, Aerospace, Aeronautical, Astronautical, Biological, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Environmental, Geological, Geotechnical, Industrial, Logistics, Maintainability, Maintenance, Marine/Naval, Material, Mechanical, Nuclear, Petroleum, Optical, Petroleum, Reliability, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Software Systems, Systems Missions Analysis, Safety, and Water/Waste. 3) Functional Area 3 includes a broad range of IT related to current regional Mission Support Services (MSS). Anticipated services include, but are not limited to, the following areas of support: System Development and Software Maintenance, Facilities Planning, Management, and Operations, Local Area Networks (LAN), Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN), and Wide Area Network (WAN) System Design, Management, and Support, Computer Systems Administration, Management and Maintenance, Data Entry, Data Storage, Data Retrieval, and Electronic Records Management, Specialized Workstation (e.g. CAD, CAD/CV, GIS) Support, Computer Equipment Maintenance (both on-going and on-call), Systems Installation and Integration Production Support, Software and Application Development, Maintenance and Enhancement Support, Data Base Generation and Data Base Management, Data and/or Media Management, Orientation and Training, Information Center/Help Desk, Computer Graphics Support Services, Electronic Records Management; and, 4) Functional Area 4 is Legacy Systems Migration and New Enterprise Systems Development. The services required are to support the following enabling and critical technologies: Modernization of legacy systems to web enabled applications; Internet/Intranet/ Web Applications/ Network Computing; Security/Firewalls/Critical Infrastructures; Knowledge Management; Data Warehousing; Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Exchange; Year 2000 Remediation and Test Tools; Groupware; Next Generation Internet; Client/Server Computing; Workflow and Imaging. Draft Sections C, L, and M are available for review and will be discussed at the vendor conference on July 16, 1999 at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., (Amphitheater), Washington, D.C. beginning at 9:00 a.m. The nearest Metro Station is Federal Triangle which is serviced by both the Blue and Orange lines. If necessary the conference will continue through Saturday, July 17. Written comments are not required. In addition to addressing the draft documents, the concept and implementation of this award term contract will also be discussed at the conference. To attend the conference you must register via e-mail with David Schofield at
[email protected] with a copy to Manny De Vera at
[email protected]. Please identify the name, company, position, e-mail address, and phone number of the person(s) attending the conference. The subject of your message should begin with _Millenia Lite Conference_. The draft documents are available electronically via the Internet. Note that the dates shown below are subject to change and it is the responsibility of the interested parties to periodically check the solicitation status either through checking the Internet or by contacting the Contracting Officer, Ms Kathy Garrett at
[email protected] or (817) 978-3434 or Greg Burel at
[email protected] or (404) 331-3236 or Manny DeVera at
[email protected] (703) 605-9760. The web address is http://oiti.gsa.gov or http://www.gsa.gov/regions/4k/ftsmain.htm. We estimate the final RFP will be issued NLT August 2 and proposals are due NLT September 2, 1999, 11:00 a.m. central daylight time.