SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- SOURCES SOUGHT FOR UPGRADE OR REPLACEMENT OF NIST'S PAY FOR PERFORMANCE SYSTEM (PPS)
- Notice Date
- 10/29/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-05-183-SOURCES-SOUGHT-1
- Response Due
- 11/15/2004
- Archive Date
- 11/30/2004
- Description
- This is a sources sought notice to assist NIST in completing market research for a procurement that will be initiated in the near future. No solicitation is currently available, and no unsolicited proposals will be entertained as a result of this sources sought notice. NIST currently utilizes a Pay for Performance System (PPS) for payroll processing of its employees, and has been using that system for a few years. The current PPS is developed in Oracle development suite, which includes Oracle Forms, reports and SQLloader. The backend Oracle database server resides on IBM AIX and the Forms, Reports and SQLLDR is deployed on Microsoft Windows 2000. NIST IS SEEKING TO IDENTIFY COMPANIES WITH RECENT EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING SYSTEMS, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PAY FOR PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS, FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT WERE REQUIRED TO UTILIZE FEDERAL HUMAN RESOURCES LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THAT SYSTEM. SUMMARY OF RELEVANT CHARACTERISTICS OF CURRENT PPS AND CHARACTERISTCS OF MODIFIED OR NEW PPS: The current NIST PPS needs to be modified, or a new system may need to be developed, in the very near future (this fiscal year) to reflect new FY 2005 NIST PPS requirements. Basically, the PPS, either modified or new, will need to support several different NIST user groups and their tasks accordingly: 1) Application administration group: This group will perform the application access control, running system reports for senior managers, process all necessary pre and post pay out performance processing tasks which include loading the locality data from the U. S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), update pay pool access right, archive history data and freeze employees data, running employees reconciliation comparison reports against each pay period HR employee?s data, determines when the file to update the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Finance Center (NFC) Paypers database is to be generated the system and sent to NFC, etc. 2) Senior Management Advisor (SMA) group: Each NIST Operating Unit (OU) has one SMA and the SMA?s role in PPS is to verify employee?s status, identify pay pool managers and rating officials, handle pay out bonus and increase, run reports and other tasks. 3) Pay Pool managers /Rating officials group: Pay pool managers/rating officials give out the rating; pay increase and bonus amount to their staff. Typically, this group of users would like to download the data to their own MS Excel to manipulate the data outside of the system. 4) Operating Unit (OU) group: Each OU has the ability to give and/or modify ratings, pay increases and bonus amounts for their employees. This group of users can download information into MS Excel and run OU reports. 5) Chief Office group: This is a new requirement for the FY 2005 PPS. This group does not exist in the current PPS. The primary purpose of this function is for NIST Chief Officers to have the functions of the OU, but is limited to their organization instead of the entire OU. 6) NIST Director and OU directors group This is the new requirement of the FY 2005 PPS. This function does not exist in the current PPS. The primary purpose of the function is for NIST directory to pre-calculate the NIST-wide salary increase (I) then each OU?s director can use that I or publish a lower I for his/her OU. Basically, the PPS change from old to new is the following: Replace scoring and ranking with six performance levels; link performance pay increase to performance levels; convert pay increase to bonuses for pay-capped high performers; place annual cost-of-living increase (ACI) at risk for low performers. Note: The current NIST PPS is tied to the Annual Cost-of-living Increase system (ACI). Therefore, a modification of the current PPS would include the modification of the ACI. Development of a new PPS would have to be designed such that it could integrate a new ACI in the near future. The new PPS will be required to use Oracle database, PL/SQL for handling business logic processing and Oracle SQLLDR for data loading. A front end graphical user interface (GUI) may need to be developed. The system will be contracted for in FY 2005, with a required completion date of no later than April 30, 2005. The procurement process is anticipated to begin on/about December 1, 2004, with an award likely by January 15, 2004. NIST estimates that approximately 2-3 full time equivalent Contractor personnel may be required to complete the requirements. If your company possesses relevant experience for projects that are similar in scope to what may be required to implement the foregoing, then please provide the following types of information by email to Joseph.Widdup@nist.gov no later than November 15, 2004: 1. Description of each similar project completed by your company as a prime Contractor or as a significant subcontractor within the past three (3) years, including: (a) dollar amount of the contract; (b) brief description of the technical requirements of that project; (c) contract type used on that project (e.g., firm-fixed-price, labor-hour, time-and-materials, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, etc.); (d) indication of how long the project took to complete from start to finish; (e) how many Contractor and, if applicable, subcontractor full time equivalents were required to complete the job; and (f) name, address, point of contact and phone number of customer organization for which the work was done. 2. Current socioeconomic status of your company as it relates to NAICS 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services (see NAICS table at http://www.sba.gov/size/sizetable2002.html); also, whether your company is currently certified as an 8(a) company or a service-disabled veteran-owned company. 3. Indication of whether your company currently has its own GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract and whether your company currently can provide IT developmental services under that contract; and 4. Indication of whether your company currently has an active registration in the Central Contractor Registration at www.ccr.gov. PLEASE DIRECT ALL QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS SOURCES SOUGHT BY EMAIL TO JOSEPH.WIDDUP@NIST.GOV.
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