USDA - RD - Core Business Applications DME

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USDA - RD - Core Business Applications DME - Market Research

On behalf of the Department of Agriculture - Rural Development, GSA is conducting market research to understand capabilities related to providing the below requirement:

The USDA - Rural Development (RD) is responsible for developing, maintaining, and operating a portfolio of automated systems in support of RD’s core services: Rural Business Cooperative Service (RBS); Rural Housing Service (RHS); and Rural Utilities Service (RUS). The scope of this effort is development, modernization, and enhancements (DME) of RD business applications and capabilities, platform, and licensing support, such as:

• Requirements Definition, Discovery meetings and overall Program advancement of the system capabilities

• Development and Configuration of new and existing Applications and Portal

• Operations & Maintenance of RD digital services environment and platform

• Legacy Application and/or System Modernization & Transition

• Initiatives including (IT Operations Management, IT Service Management, IT Asset Management, IT Business Management)

• Incorporation of other major USDA initiatives should the Contractor provide an efficient and cost-effective solution.

It also incorporates maturing RD’s Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) software development methodology utilized with scale to meet mission needs.

Responses Due: 07/01/2024

Draft Requirements Document

Link To Draft Requirements Document

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POC Email

Company Name

GSA Contract Number

POC First Name

POC Last Name

POC Phone #

Company Website (URLs only)

UEI #: Unique Entity Identifier

CAGE Code

Business Size:

s - small business
o - other than small business

Technical Question(s) - Yes/No
You can further explain your response in the Optional Feedback or Capabilities Statement below.

**Technical Question(s) - Yes/No**
*You can further explain your response in the Optional Feedback or Capabilities Statement below.*
	Yes	No
1. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with developing policies and procedures around the collection, use, and preservation of data, and data governance including support to data governance boards?	Yes	No
2. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience in data architecture design using a TOAGAF and FEAF consistent approach to building conceptual and logical data models?	Yes	No
3. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience in metadata management; data cataloging; defining data elements; documenting data standards; data definitions; business case uses data origins; and data transformation?	Yes	No
4. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience in measuring; reporting; dash boarding and other visualizations of critical data related to the health of data management activities including implementation of standards and technical guidance?	Yes	No
5. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience in the design and use of geo-referencing and modeling, designing, and developing geospatial portals and creating map services?	Yes	No
6. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience of Master Data Management strategy; data management guidance; regulations and legislation such as the open data principles for accessibility; reusability, documentation; and timelines?	Yes	No
7. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience designing and implementing data schemas to support capture from source systems into central repository; self-service report generation; and federated search and retrieval; ensuring quality assurance and quality control for data integrity and availability?	Yes	No
8. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience designing and implementing solutions that use AI and ML driven data solutions such as intelligent data pipelines; data cataloging; or others?	Yes	No
9. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with extracting data from Salesforce using Informatica Salesforce Connector?	Yes	No
10. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience in performing projects using Scaled Agile Framework (SAF3) project methodology?	Yes	No
11. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with analysis and solution architecture recommendations for Master Data Management platform, to include referential data management?	Yes	No
12. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience in guiding maturity advancements, developing architecture and framework for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, data capture, data inclusions, augmentation of data sets that provide enhanced business insights and provide associated recommendations?	Yes	No
13. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with addressing any previous findings regarding inconsistent data handling practices, duplication's, errors, and areas that lack technology support?	Yes	No
14. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with developing an enterprise data mapping that provides transparency for data life-cycle within an organization’s ecosystem and can be utilized in data triage, modernization, and data analytics initiatives. This entails developing high-level depictions of the end-to end data life-cycle at the enterprise level, enabling a visualization of both internal and external data?	Yes	No
15. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with developing a data asset inventory and catalog that allows an organizations sub-agencies to understand data dependencies for their mission and automate data location searches either by people or by data processes? This entails developing a live inventory of key data assets through various sources, capturing it in an agreed format and populating data.	Yes	No
16. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with providing analytics, design, solution recommendations, and implementation for digitizing the entire content management lifecycle as organization systems and applications are modernized? This includes structured and unstructured content, and records management.	Yes	No
17. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with supporting integration and digitization of documents for Enterprise Content Management (ECM)?	Yes	No
18. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with providing analysis, design, solution recommendations and implementation for integration of various data sources for modernizing Geospatial visualizations providing insight not currently available?	Yes	No
19. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with providing coordination and support for data stewards including writing procedures and/or training materials on data management, governance, and curation?	Yes	No
20. Does your company have knowledge and demonstrable experience with supporting Data Science and /or Business Intelligence future needs?	Yes	No

Technical Question - Multiple Choice

In your estimation how much of this potential requirement would your company need to subcontract to other companies?

Technical Question - Multiple Choice

How much lead time would your company need from notification of award to start of contract performance for this type of requirement?

Based on the provided information, would your company submit a quote/proposal if this requirement was issued under your GSA Contract?

*If you select "No", be sure to submit any questions or provide any comments to assist the requesting agency in the "Optional Feedback" section below.

Yes
*No

Do you provide this service and/or product commercially? (optional)
In accordance with FAR Part 12: Subpart 12.1 - Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services, this question is to support DoD with commercial items and commercial determination.

Yes
No

Please identify all GSA contracts that your company holds and are applicable to this requirement. (Select all that apply)

Based only on the GSA contracts your company holds, which SIN(s), Pool(s), or Constellation(s) would you recommend are applicable for this requirement? (Select all that apply)

Please select the NAICS code(s) you determine are appropriate for this requirement. (Select all that apply)

541511
Other

Optional Feedback: Please provide any feedback or questions you may have related to this requirement and the Draft Requirements Document. This section is only for questions or feedback to the Agency about this requirement and to further expand on any responses provided above.

If you selected "Other" for any of the Contracts, SINs, or NAICS selections, please include those that you would recommend with your feedback.

NOTE: Do not include capabilities information here. Any capabilities information provided in this section will be deleted and is not included in the MRAS Market Research Report of all responses provided to the Agency.

Capability Website: Please provide a URL to a capability website for your company.

A link to a page on your company's website may be used in lieu of, or in combination with, the Capabilities Statement file(s) below.

Capabilities Statement:

Please note: Only one (1) file can be uploaded. Be sure you stack/combine all your documents into a single file prior to uploading.

Capabilities Statement should include relevant experience. Relevant experience includes projects that are similar to the described requirements and that have occurred in the past 5 years. Please do not provide general capabilities statements.

Provide at least 1 relevant project and include the following information:

1. Customer Name

2. Customer/Client POC Email

3. Total Contract Value

4. Period of Performance

5. Brief Description of Services Provided

6. Indicate if there is a CPARS (Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System) Available

While optional, a capability statement relevant to this requirement is highly recommended.

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