General Services Administration, Information Technology Services, Fast Program (7TF), 819 Taylor St., Rm. 11A30, Fort Worth, TX 76102-6105

D -- ACQUISITION OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES SOL 7TS-99-0008 POC Kathy Garrett, 817-978-3434 WEB: Millennia Lite, http://oiti.gsa.gov. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, kathy.garrett@gsa.gov. 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 release a Request for Proposal currently known as Millennia Lite. Under this national program, Information Technology solutions will be acquired through the use of non-mandatory Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts in four specific functional areas, with a fifth functional area to cover new technologies to potentially be acquired under full and open competition at a future date.. 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 tosupport 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. 5) Functional Area 5 is new technologies. No awards will be made in Functional Area 5 at this time. This functional area will potentially be used to award additional contracts in support of future technologies. The Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC) for Functional Area 1, 3 and 4 is 7379. The SIC code for Functional Area 2 is 8711. The maximum dollar value of all contracts awarded under this solicitation is 20 billion. Pricing will be ceiling-priced labor rates. Contract period is three years with seven award term option years for a total of ten years. Millennia Lite is a full and open competition. For each functional area, GSA intends to make approximately six to twelve awards to include two awards to small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses or small women owned businesses. Performance of this contract will be worldwide. The solicitation will be made available on the worldwide web (http://oiti.gsa.gov). All status and solicitation information and any updates and changes will be announced on the OITI website. No telephone requests for the solicitation will be accepted. The Government does not intend to pay for the information solicited. Any questions should be addressed to the Contracting Officer at kathy.garrett@gsa.gov. The Government does not intend to make hardcopies of the solicitation available. The solicitation will be released approximately September 27, 1999, and proposals will be due 30 days from the issue date of the solicitation. See Block 9 of the SF 33 for the due date. Proposals shall be sent to the following address: GSA, FTS, Solutions Development Center, 819 Taylor Street, Room 11A30, Fort Worth, Texas 76102. See Note 26. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. Posted 09/03/99 (W-SN376330). (0246)

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