SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Market Survey - Request for Information - IT Services for DoD Purchase Card Data Mining and Risk Analysis
- Notice Date
- 10/26/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, OSD Defense Procurement & Acquisition Policy, OSD Defense Procurement & Acquisition Policy, 3060 Defense Pentagon, 2B137, Washington, District of Columbia, 20301-3060, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20301-3060
- Solicitation Number
- HQ0102-12-0001
- Archive Date
- 12/13/2011
- Point of Contact
- Chris Webster,
- E-Mail Address
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chris.webster@dla.mil
(chris.webster@dla.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Market Survey for Information Technology, I.T. professional services. In 2007, the Department of Defense (DoD) Purchase Card Program Management Office (PCPMO) procured a Data Mining and Risk Assessment (DM/RA) capability to: • Identify and report fraudulent and abusive spending and theft and misuse of government property associated with its purchase/payment cards; and • Report on the overall health of DoD Purchase Card programs at various levels in the reporting hierarchy, based on compliance with purchase card internal controls as a component of the Purchase Card On-Line System (PCOLS) This Market Survey represents a restructuring of the acquisition strategy for the Data Mining-Risk Assessment (DM-RA) portion of the PCOLS Program. Acquisition Objective: The Purchase card On-Line System (PCOLS) has several components. This Market Survey is related to the integration of the Data Mining and Risk Assessment (DM & RA) applications associated with the PCOLS application suite. The Government is seeking information on how an interested contractor would perform as the System Integrator for the DoD Purchase Card Program Management Office to perform tasks associated maintaining and sustaining the Data Mining and Risk Management functions of PCOLS while bringing together the component subsystems of the Purchase card Program into a whole and helping ensure that those subsystems function seamlessly. Such a firm would act as the Purchase Card Program Management Office's primary crossing point to PCOLS vendors, ensuring that business requirements are appropriately interpreted and integrated into the functional and technical architecture. This includes project management, scheduling, requirements gathering, software development, testing, and change control processes in coordination with the Program Management Offices. Business Objective(s): The over-arching business objective is the adaptation of new technology which can be effectively and affordably deployed in PCOLS quickly. The functional business objective is to Mine Data from Purchase Card transactions via the deployment of a data-screening tool that uses a combination of discreet DoD-tailored business rules to detect card misuse, and a "neural learning" capability that enables the identification of transactions at the most risk of being fraudulent or abusive. The transactions mined will be screened, scored, and when appropriate, referred-to card mangers for review, and archived. In addition, the system is to "learn" from past transactions to build a knowledge base that improves scoring accuracy over time. This fully scalable risk assessment application will be equal or equivalent-to the current COTs sub-system (FICO's Falcon® Fraud Manager TM ). On a monthly basis, it provides a report card, based on transaction through-put from numerous financial institutions, which identifies and stratifies at-risk transactions, based-on the internal business rules established to ensure robust internal control of card use. This objective also includes the delivery of configurable web-delivered reporting within the confines of DoD Information Assurance regulations, including CAC-enabled single-sign-on for users. Systems Description: PCOLS includes the DMDC Enterprise Monitoring and Management of Accounts (EMMA) which is used by multiple DoD information systems, Authorization, Issuance, and Maintenance (AIM), Data Mining (DM) and Risk Assessment (RA). EMMA is an application for the verification and provisioning of credit card officials and their supervisors. AIM is a workflow application for the approval, issuance and maintenance of the purchase card and provides the capabilities to the DM application to screen each purchase card transaction. DM and RA are a combined third party service. The DM algorithms uses DoD specific risk indicators coupled with account profiles, purchase patterns and purchase card transactions with the greatest potential for fraud, waste and abuse in regards to the laws, regulations and policies governing the DoD Purchase Card Program. The RA application provides Approving/Billing Officials (A/BOs), Agency/Organizational Program Coordinators (A/OPCs) and the Program Development Implementation (PDI) office with system generated transactions that have been identified at various levels of risk for action and response in the RA application. System Architecture: Closely associated with DM&RA is a sub-system developed by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) which uses existing DoD personnel data in an integrated workflow to authorize Purchase Cardholder accounts and to process the results of the data mining output. DMDC maintains the historical files on purchase card transactions for the PMO. The selected contractor will be required to work closely with DMDC to ensure well-coordinated integration of these sub-systems. PCOLS Transaction Profile: In FY 2010 DoD issued over 40,000 cards, at any time having approximately 105,783 cards and 48,800 managing accounts and processed 8,884,734 purchase card transactions through the PCOLS application valued at $7,772,622,463. Vendor Qualifications: The contractor will be responsible to possess the necessary facilities, qualified personnel, supplies and equipment necessary to operate, update and maintain the Data Mining (DM) and Risk Assessment (RA) applications. If a respondent chooses to utilize the services of sub-tier vendors or subcontractors, those vendors or subcontractors must also meet these criteria. The Government anticipates full and open competition procedures for a single award of a Firmed Fixed Price (FFP), Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), for a base award and three option periods. Interested companies should submit a white paper that includes a brief description to include the following information: 1. Potential Technical Solution(s) 2. Capabilities to include: a. Information on the System Integrator; b. Information on the type of Data Mining Engine; c. Information on the Risk Assessment application and the success of the application; d. Any additional information to assist with evaluating the type of technology used for performance. 3. Summary Personnel Qualifications 4. Past experience in Data Mining and Purchase Card Operations 5. Past U.S. Government Contract experience. 6. Facility security clearance level. 7. Technology NAICS Codes in which the offeror normally conducts business. 8. Is the offeror small or large business. Note: Clearly mark any information that is proprietary. More information about PCOLS may be located at: http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/pdi/eb/pcols.html. This Market Survey is for information and planning purposes only, and does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP), and is not to be construed as a commitment by the U. S. Government. If a formal solicitation is generated at a later date, a solicitation notice will be published. No award will be made as a result of this Market Survey. All information is to be submitted at no cost or obligation to the Government. Any information that the responder considers proprietary should be clearly marked as such. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned, including any proprietary information. The Government reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any private sector input as a result of this market survey. Please submit your responses to: Mr. C. W. Webster, e-mail: chris.webster@dla.mil by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Wednesday, 30 November 2011. The Government will only accept written questions, via email, until 4:00 p.m. (EST) on Monday, 28 November 2011.
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