Notice ID: SAD2DME06052024
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Assistant Chief Information Officer (ACIO) 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). Each Agency offers programs that provide financial assistance in the form of guaranteed loans, direct loans, and grants to help businesses grow, improve housing and essential community facilities, and finance infrastructure in rural areas.
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.
Tasks. The Contractor shall provide comprehensive program management and shall work with the RD project manager to manage and coordinate all workflows and activities. Program management shall include the following focus areas.
- Quality Management – The Contractor shall define the quality management approach and institute quality control and assurance processes. This includes ensuring all design, development, and configuration documentation is delivered and accepted by the RD product owner.
- Risk, Issue, and Task Management – The Contractor shall support risk, issue, and task management planning including identification, analysis, response planning, risk control, and status reporting activities. The Contractor shall develop and maintain a Risk and Issue Log to document these throughout the course of the project.
- Communications Management – The Contractor shall support communications management planning and general communications including the development of a communications plan and communication materials. Communications may include both internal and external stakeholders and oral, written, and electronic (e.g., web portals) means. The communications management plan shall document at a minimum the communication objectives, channels, frequency, and timing by stakeholder group.
- Project Information/Documentation Management – The Contractor shall establish a document library where all design, development, test, change management plans, and all work products the Contractor creates for the RD will be stored.
- Project Integration Management – The Contractor shall identify, define, and coordinate all workflows to establish an integrated transition strategy. This includes developing, preparing, coordinating, and maintaining a comprehensive project plan to effectively manage and control project activities, resources, and cost …
The anticipated period of performance is a base with year with two (2) option years.
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