PBGC RFI: Legacy Pension Insurance Modeling System (PIMS)

Notice ID: 16PBGC25Q0001

PBGC is seeking support to manage the Pension Insurance Modeling System (PIMS), a tool developed by the Policy, Research and Analysis Department (PRAD) to model the SE and ME pension plan universes.  The current SE PIMS and ME PIMS models in conjunction are referred to as Legacy PIMS.  A newer PIMS model (“T-PIMS”) has recently been deployed into Production but is not currently being utilized as the PIMS System of Record. The scope of work for this contract only applies to the current Legacy PIMS. This scope of work also includes decommissioning of the Legacy SE PIMS during this contract’s overall Period of Performance.

Scope of Work. The contractor shall support PIMS through the architecture for the production environment. The SE PIMS production environment is comprised of 11 cloud servers under Microsoft Azure, running on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter.  While one of the server acts as APPS server, other 10 servers are used as drones.  These are connected to an MS SQL Server and exposed to the user through their individual Windows 11 Desktop.  The Development and QA environments are comprised of 53 cloud servers under MS Azure, running on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter, with a MS SQL server on the back end.  This drone farm is exposed to the user via Windows 11 VDI desktops. From a user desktop within PRAD, the user can perform the following tasks:

1. View/edit data
2. Submit jobs
3. Review progress of jobs
4. View/Print results
5. Compare job results/settings
6. Execute post-processing using SAS, a statistical analysis tool used by PRAD staff as a supporting tool and found outside the PIMS boundaries …

The Contractor shall provide support for the Legacy PIMS Models in two regards:

1. The Contractor shall support SE Legacy PIMS. This includes writing new code to reflect adjustments to new pension rules and regulations, budgetary changes and congressional requests. It also includes managing, evaluating, and interpreting technical results completing actions. Actions such as editing codes to reflect changes based on congressional requests, processing stochastic scenarios to analyze the impact of the changes to PBGC’s financials, and conducting scenarios where legislative proposals and change to pension laws affect PBGC projected outcomes. The Legacy SE PIMS system is also anticipated to be decommissioned after the new SE TPIMS system becomes the System of Record, and the decommissioning activities are incorporated into this requirement.
2. The Contractor shall assist PRAD on the technical programming and evaluation of work performed with the ME Legacy PIMS model, including but not limited to Technical Assistance requests from external stakeholders and assistance on the PRAD report deliverables.

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