State Department RFI: High dollar, Highly complex acquisition – IT Support for Administrative Services

Notice ID 19AQMM24I0001

The Department of State Bureau for Overseas Buildings Operations, Office of Executive Management, Information Resource Management Division (OBO/EX/IRM) is seeking support for its IT SUPPORT FOR STATE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES (SAS) requirement.  This acquisition will support the Department of State (DOS). This will be a high dollar, highly complex acquisition.  The planned contract is estimated to be in the range of $14 Million per year.

The Department of State is seeking support for its State Administrative Services (SAS) requirement. This will be a highly complex action with new computer platforms, significant upgrades and new and expansive requirements for development skill. The current staffing is predominantly in the Greater Metropolitan Washington, DC Area at State Annex 6 (SA6), and other state locations, DC metro contractor locations, DC metro locations via remote telework, and remotely with CONUS with special permission from the Contracting Officer’s Representative.

The requirement is to provide information technology project support and software engineering in support of enterprise-wide applications for the State Administrative Services (SAS) applications for the U.S. Department of State (DoS). These include, but are not limited to human resources, general services operations, building real property and asset management, administrative support, help desk support, data/records, overseas allowances, compensation, business processes, project management, budget, finance and overseas facilities applications.

The U.S. Department of State relies on up-to-date, accurate data to fulfill business requirements and support management decision making. These applications support the business requirements of multiple Department of State bureaus. These bureaus require project support to maintain and enhance the current data collection, processing, and reporting requirements as they are performed through the use of electronic forms and software applications.

These applications will be deployed both in the department approved cloud platforms and on-premises and integrate with a wide variety of other department applications and the contractor should be experienced working with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Web Services.  Databases supporting these applications will include both traditional SQL databases as well as cloud-based SQL, Object, and Network based databases.   Access and database transaction languages will vary with respect to software language. Many, but not all applications utilize Microsoft Structured Query Language (SQL) Server. Reporting is currently done through Power BI, SQL Reporting, ASP.NET, SAP Business Objects, Microsoft SharePoint, and Crystal reports.

Regardless of the current technologies in use, the Department may require future enhancements using other technologies approved by the Department’s Information Technology Configuration Control Board (ITCCB).

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