SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- MULTICHANNEL PUBLISHING SYSTEM
- Notice Date
- 2/26/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Acquisition Management (AQM), 250 E Street, SW Mail Stop 4-13, Washington, DC, 20219, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-0000031207
- Response Due
- 3/12/2007
- Archive Date
- 3/27/2007
- Description
- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has a requirement for a software and professional services firm to design, develop, integrate, test, and deploy a Multichannel Publishing solution that supports the Web Content Unit and the Communications Division, both of the Public Affairs Department. The solution will consist of a Web Content Management System (WCMS) and a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) based electronic publishing solution to support the authoring, editing, publication and dissemination of content in multiple formats (.PDF, .DOC, .HTML, .XML). OCC produces many official publications ? news releases, legal interpretations, policy guidance documents, and lengthy procedures handbooks related to its bank supervision and licensing activities. Although OCC still makes available paper copies of its publications, the primary distribution mechanism is now the agency?s three web sites. OCC has determined that its processes and the technologies for production and distribution of publications and Web content are obsolete. OCC has undertaken the Multichannel Publishing System Implementation to address the Web content and publication production business functions. This system is key to achieving a wholesale overhaul of the OCC web sites that is underway as part of the OCC Web Site of the Future initiative. The OCC issued a Request for Information for E-Publishing/Web Site of the Future to industry during July 2006, and received inputs from interested offerors on August 11, 2006. Based on the information collected in market research and upon further analysis by the Government, the OCC has determined that the forthcoming competitive acquisition will be for a single, winner-take-all contract with the winning prime contractor providing OCC a Multichannel Publishing solution under one consolidated effort. This is a new requirement and the solicitation is unrestricted. The North American Industry Classification Code (NAICS) is 541512. The acquisition strategy for this procurement will entail an advisory multi-step process which will allow the Government an opportunity to advise contractors about their potential to be a viable competitor in the competitive process, in accordance with FAR 15.202. The OCC will evaluate all responses to this notice and advise each respondent in writing either that it will be invited to participate in the resultant acquisition or, based on the information submitted, that it is unlikely to be a viable competitor. All respondents considered not to be viable competitors will be advised of the general basis for that opinion. Notwithstanding the advice provided by the OCC in response to their submission, all respondents may participate in the resultant acquisition. The OCC will execute a ?best value? procurement that focuses on technical feasibility, system integrator past performance, solution organizational impact, and price. Solution organizational impact includes both solution support and operation within the OCC environment. In order to be deemed competitively viable firms shall at a minimum (1) propose viable integrated content management solutions that are achievable within the OCC organization and technical infrastructure, (2) have demonstrated mature Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems integration engineering practices and implementation approaches that follow the Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integration, Extreme Programming, or similar model for its process improvement approach, (3) have qualified key personnel that will be assigned to the project. The key personnel must be experienced in content management, web content management, and systems integration, and (4) have documented or customer surveyed past performance developing and implementing solutions of similar scope. The OCC has developed a preliminary vision of the solution. The preliminary vision of the solution consists of a proven technical architecture that uses COTS or Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) products that either ?out-of-the-box?, integrates with other COTS/GOTS or customized satisfy the requirements of the Multichannel Publishing system. Key attributes of Multichannel Publishing solution are as follows: ? The solution must be capable of managing three Web properties with a total display page count of approximately 100,000 pages (because each Web page will consist of a number of content objects, the total number of content objects to support will be significantly higher.) ? The solution must offer distributed publication authoring and editing capabilities that allow for online commenting and the tracking of changes similar to that of Microsoft Word. ? The solution must manage content as objects smaller than the section level of a publication or an individual Web page. It must track information about these content objects, including metadata, relationships to other objects, object versioning information, and security permissions. ? The solution must manage content objects as source objects. The source objects must be able to be reused in multiple publications and the relationships between the source objects and the multiple publications must be managed. ? The solution must be capable of disassembling into section-level content objects, publications that have been authored using a pre-determined template or style sheet. ? The solution must be able to assemble content objects for presentation to the user in multiple presentation formats such as PDF, HTML, MS Word. The solution must be capable of assembling presentation output based on information it stores about content objects (e.g. content type or metadata.) ? The solution must support presentation templates to provide a mechanism for ensuring consistency in the presentation layer and to limit the effort associated with managing a collection of many thousands of output pages. The solution must be capable of separating content from presentation so that content can be presented in a variety of formats. ? The solution must distribute content objects through the intranet directly to the users? desktops and assemble the objects into publications on the desktops for use off-line. The solution should allow the user to control the execution of the intranet download. ? The solution must validate and synchronize select publication content located on a user?s desktop with content managed within the solution. ? The solution must provide a mechanism for servicing internal and external users, who have limited bandwidth network access, are using devices with restricted display capabilities, or who need access to the OCC?s content while operating disconnected from the network. ? The solution must provide user desktop information retrieval mechanisms to facilitate focused and component level information retrieval efforts. ? The solution must be capable of personalized content presentation. For OCC employees, the solution must allow for the authentication of the user against the OCC directory (Active Directory-based) and the tailoring of content to defined groups and roles. The solution must allow external and internal users control over the content they receive via OCC Web properties. ? The solution must be Section 508 compliant. The OCC is requesting prospective respondents to provide the following technical information: ? Statement of Qualification ? The statement of qualifications should provide the OCC insight into the respondent?s ability to provide the services and solutions required to meet the key attributes listed above. The statement of qualifications shall also provide information regarding the methodologies that would be used in order to provide the services. ? Conceptual Multichannel Publishing System Technical Solution ? The conceptual technical solution shall provide the OCC insight into the proposed components and software necessary to satisfy the key attributes listed above. It shall provide a technical description that describes both graphically and in text, the necessary components of the solution. The technical description shall also provide an estimated level of integration necessary between components. ? Respondent Past Performance ? The respondent should provide at least three examples of past implementations of the conceptual solution proposed above. Examples of implementations within government organizations of similar size as the OCC are encouraged. Written submissions are limited to a maximum of 30 pages (including attachments, samples, documentation, etc.). Pages in excess of the maximum will not be reviewed. Firms desiring consideration must submit five (5) copies of the required information if submitting hard copies. The copies shall be submitted to: Esther Clemons, 250 E Street, SW, Mail Stop: 4-13, Washington, DC 20219-0001. Electronic submissions are acceptable and should be emailed to esther.clemons@occ.treas.gov. Responses are due by 5:00 p.m. EST on March 12, 2007. Disclaimer: Personal visits for the purpose of discussing this requirement will not be scheduled. Telephone inquiries are discouraged. This is not a Request for Proposals. A contract award will not be made as a result of information submitted in response to this notice or to otherwise pay for the information solicited. This notice does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. This notice shall not be considered as a request for proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any product or services. Responses to this notice will not be returned.
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