Opportunities

Title:                 D--HII 13-18- WorkStream C Moodle Hosting and Managed Support   
    Sol. #:                   VA11813R0223
    Agency:                Department of Veterans Affairs
    Office:                  VA Technology Acquisition Center
    Location:             VA Technology Acquisition Center
    Posted On:         Apr 26, 2013 10:32 am
    Base Type:         Presolicitation
    Link:
https://www.fbo.gov/notices/c1a47506195a94996d9e051a5dbd81c4

Title:                  Historical Artifacts Collection -Metadata Cataloging Project
       

        Sol. #:                    SAQMMA13I0015
        Agency:                 Department of State
        Office:                    Office of Acquisitions
        Location:               Acquisition Management
        Posted On:           Apr 11, 2013 12:19 pm
        Base Type:           Special Notice
       

Link: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/State/A-LM-AQM/A-LM-AQM/SAQMMA13I0015/listing.html

Title:                  Instream Flow Measurement, Analysis, and Reporting Services
Sol. #:               AG-84M8-S-13-0008
Agency:            Department of Agriculture

Office:               Forest Service

Background:

Federal authorizations of water diversions on National Forest System lands may require consultation under the Endangered Species Act to evaluate effects of water withdrawal on threatened or endangered fish species. Collection of stream flow, habitat information, topography, other instream flow data, and diversion data is needed to determine effects of diversions on stream flow, and fish habitat.

SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT:

The contractor shall furnish all transportation, supervision, labor and incidental supplies (unless noted differently on each order /call) necessary to provide the required services as noted in the following paragraphs. The contractor shall be responsible for collecting field measurements, providing a technical report that details the data collection methodology, site characteristics, summary of habitat mapping, and flow to habitat relationships, delivering the data including all associated field notes, photos, videos, and electronic data via a CD/DVD/flash drive or other appropriate electronic media, and be available to answer questions relating to the study and field data collected as a part of this project. Approximately three trips of one week duration per site will be required for field data collection.

Location:               R-4 Intermountain Region
Posted On:              Apr 22, 2013 3:50 pm
Base Type:              Combined Synopsis/Solicitation

Full Description

Link: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/FS/84M8/AG-84M8-S-13-0008/listing.html

NIH Sources Sought

Title:                      Multiple Study Data Coordinating Center for DESPR

Sol. #:                    NIH-NICHD-DESPR-SBSS-2013-15

Agency:                Department of Health and Human Services

Capability Statement/Information: The NICHD is seeking Small Businesses capable of meeting the following criteria. Small Business organizations must submit Capability Statements in response to this notice and these will be evaluated against the following technical areas of experience and expertise: (1) adequacy of the proposed technical approach for developing and maintaining a web-based data management system capable of accommodating several large and small studies simultaneously; (2) extent to which the web-based management system meets the Government expectation of construction, running and being maintained on open-source or portable platforms; (3) ability to support and coordinate the research activities of clinical sites; (4) ability to identify and provide or subcontract with expert biostatistical, information technological, clinical or laboratory services as requested to meet Government needs; (5) logistical adequacy and feasibility of the proposed staffing plan for the conduct of the project, including the proposed key research staffs' demonstrated qualifications and experience in successfully meeting all requirements outlined in the statement of work; (6) demonstrated capability to anticipate and resolve unforeseen difficulties in recruitment and retention of study participants, randomization, data entry, data management, and data transfer; and (7) demonstrated successful past performance consistent with both prospective cohort designs with longitudinal capture of time-varying data and biospecimens and randomized clinical and intervention trials.

Office:                  National Institutes of Health

Location:              Office of Administration

Posted On:           Feb 28, 2013 12:28 pm

Base Type:          Sources Sought

Link:                     https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/OoA/NIH-NICHD-DESPR-SBSS-2013-15 /listing.html

Wednesday January 9th the VA announced an Open Source Software Challenge to "Help Veterans make appointments for VA outpatient and ambulatory care by creating systems that are compatible with Open Source VistA and help to lead health IT transformation." This announcement was brought to the attention of the OSSI community by OSSI Government Advisory Board Member John Keane.

To encourage development of systems that help Veterans schedule appointments to receive care from the Veterans Health Administration and to reduce risks in the future procurement and deployment of those systems, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) announces a prize contest under Section 105 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2011, Public Law 111-358 (2011), 15 USC 3719 (the "Act").

The goal of this contest is to encourage creation of systems that help Veterans make appointments to receive outpatient and ambulatory care[1] from the Veterans Health Administration. VA also seeks to obtain information which will allow it to reduce the risks inherent in procurement and deployment of a replacement medical scheduling product.

[1] Scheduling of inpatient, surgical, and extended nursing care is excluded.

Contest overview:

Registration until 12:00 noon EDT May 13, 2013. A contestant must register electronically via this website (see Rules). Eligible contestants' letter of registration letter is validated. Eligible contestants are granted access to the virtual testing environment.

Submission of entry until 12:00 noon EDT June 13, 2013 Entries are submitted electronically as specified under Rules. Contestants, in order to be judged, will contribute the open APIs and any open source content in their entries to the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA).

Judging

Prizes awarded on or about September 30, 2013

VA uses the Medical Scheduling Package (MSP), a component in its VistA electronic health record (EHR) system, to bring patients, clinicians and other resources together so health care can be delivered. The MSP also captures data that allows VA to measure, manage and improve access to care, quality of care, operating efficiency and operating and capital resources. VA currently relies on the MSP to perform non-scheduling functions including workload data capture and a broad range of workload and other management reports.

VA intends to replace the current MSP with a scheduling product[1] which is a standards-based, modular, extensible and scalable, certified as compliant and fully interoperable with the production version of VistA now held by the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA), http://www.osehra.org/.

The replacement product must effectively perform VA's scheduling-centric and scheduling-related legacy business functions. It must also demonstrate it can meet non-functional requirements including integration with multiple instances of VistA.[2]

[1] As used in this notice, "product" means either a discrete software module which is installed on VA servers or a software service.

[2] The replacement product will, as a part of the overall VistA EHR, deliver privacy, security, data integrity, patient accessibility, interoperability and other services required by federal law, regulations and VA policy. Many of these services are delivered by other components of VistA.

The MSP is tightly integrated with VistA; it reads data from more than 130 other VistA applications and has read/write functionality with more than 30 additional applications.

VistA systems are localized at the hospital level and will remain so for at least the near-term future. Each hospital operates a separate instance of VistA. Portions of the VistA code are identical in each instance; different instances of VistA may have different interfaces between the MSP and other VistA applications.

Any replacement product must not negatively impact any current applications that interface with the MSP or its data.

Effect on Subsequent Procurement.

VA anticipates that compatibility with Open Source VistA will be among the requirements in any subsequent procurement of a replacement for the MSP. Demonstration of open source compatibility in this contest may be taken into consideration in the rating of proposals in any subsequent procurement.

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Request for Information - U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Federal Investigative Services

Nlets Automation

This Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for informational and planning purposes, and does not constitute an Invitation for Bids, Request for Proposals, or Request for Quotations. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract, nor do they affect a potential offertor's ability to respond to any future synopsis/solicitation which may or may not follow or restrict the U.S. Government's eventual acquisition approach.

Additionally, the U.S. Government will not provide reimbursement for any information that may be submitted in response to this RFI. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. Interested vendors responding to this RFI may provide capability information for all pieces of this requirement or for an entire solution. Respondents will not be notified of any results derived from a review of the information provided, however information gathered may be utilized for technical and acquisition purposes. Time permitting and depending upon the information received, individual vendors may be contacted for product demonstration. The U.S. Government will not pay for any costs associated with such demonstration(s) of any software products.

https://www.fbo.gov/notices/bea0d96e9987b0266e410c528f70fda5

THE ILS NEXT SOLICITATION WILL BE RELEASED AS A SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE ON GSA eBUY! UNDER NAICS CODE 541519.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Contracting Department is currently planning to procure an Integrated Library Service (ILS) that includes software and services. The tentative acquisition strategy is a Small Business Set-Aside competed amongst General Services Administration (GSA) schedule holders. The ILS is a library management system that tracks, acquires, circulates, and catalogs hardcopy and digital data in the NGA libraries for user access. The solution sought needs to enable discovery, collection, storage, assessment, and cataloging of non-standard, geospatial and non-geospatial source data, including open sources, commodity, and selected geospatial data on all network domains. "ILS Next" will support utilization, operation, and maintenance at two primary locations, one near Springfield Virginia, and one in Saint Louis. The attached draft SOW provides the software requirements for the software package which is being procured to replace the current solution. The proposed acquisition will be conducted under either North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 541519, size standard is $25M, or 519120, size standard $7M. In 5 pages or less, interested firms shall complete and submit the following information: (A) A summary document to demonstrate the organizations financial and technical capability to perform the tasks listed in the draft SOW. (B) Relevant Past Performance to address the company's experience in performing tasks (maximum of 5 contracts) that are relevant to those described in the draft SOW. (C) Your organization's business size under NAICS 541519 and NAICS 519120 (large business, small business, veteran-owned small business, service disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, 8(a), small disadvantaged small business, and/or woman owned small business). Proprietary information submitted will be protected, when so designated. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement and any follow-up requests. In addition to the five (5) page limitation notated above, potential bidders are requested to provide comments and/or questions regarding the draft SOW. No telephone calls requesting a solicitation will be accepted or acknowledged. There is no solicitation available at this time. Information received in response to this announcement will be used to determine the availability of interested sources that are qualified to provide the Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product and perform the required services as delineated in the draft SOW. All summary statements and questions related to this inquiry shall be submitted in writing to the Contract Specialist via email to Ericka.L.Franklin@nga.mil by 5:00 p.m. EST on 07 May 2012

https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/NIMA/PCWD-6/ILS_Next/listing.html

Title: RFI - Software Integration for Crime and Threat Analysis

Agency: Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Location: Naval Research Laboratory

Purpose: Through this RFI document, the Adversarial Modeling & Exploitation Office (AMX), US Naval Research Lab seeks to identify software systems for possible inclusion and integration in a suite of crime and threat analysis tools for the Federal Protective Service (FPS). Specifically, we are interested in software applications developed by U.S. personnel which could be utilized for crime analysis, spatial analysis, or intelligence analysis by the law enforcement community. Software systems could include, but not be limited to, those which are currently utilized by organizations including municipal police departments, county and state crime and intelligence analysis centers, and by Federal organizations.

More Information: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DON/ONR/N00173/N00173-13-R-RH02/listing.html

Engineers needed immediately with HP Fortif/Webinspect experience.

Positions exist for cleared and uncleared engineers. We are willing to process clearances for well qualified engineers.

This is an opportunity to work with Hewlett-Packard Fortify/WebInspect Software Solutions and their passionate and energetic team to help our customers build, manage, and deploy their applications more securely across the entire application lifecycle - - free of vulnerabilities that can be exploited by cyber attackers.  

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of a Software Security Consultant are broad and may vary depending on your level of experience and skills. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Scanning customer source code, auditing results with development and/or security teams and offering plans for remediation of vulnerabilities.
• Installing and configuring HP Fortify products onsite for customers
• Communicating technical application security concepts to customer staff including developers, architects, and managers.
• Training customer staff on application security and products.
• Assessing and scoping of customer's application security needs.
• Contributing to project planning and other project deliverables.
• Customizing the implementation of HP Fortify's production and test products.
• Collaborating with Product Management and Engineering to enhance products.
• Represent technical, business, and professional values to customers, partners, and peers.
• Work is conducted mostly at customer sites; local travel (National Capital Region) is required.
• Multiple positions exist in Baltimore. Washington DC.and Northern Virginia.

Technical Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have:

• A Technical Bachelor's degree or 6-8 years relative work experience.
• Successful completion of HP Fortify/Webinspect class.
• Prior consulting experience desired.
• 5+ years experience in role of software or security consulting.
• 5+ years experience in software development using Java, Microsoft .NET (C# or VB), or C/C++.
• Experience using build tools (e.g. ant, make, maven, msbuild, nant, etc.).
• Experience in developing and/or deploying web applications is strongly desired.
• Experience with multiple operating systems is strongly desired.
• Fundamental understanding of software, computer, and network architectures.
• Experience in the enterprise security or application security is a plus.
• CISSP, CSSLP, CISA, CEH, MCSE/MCITP and SANS certifications are a plus.

Characteristics

The ideal candidate will:

• Prior experience working with Federal government organizations (DoD, Civilian agencies)
• Be highly motivated, competitive, entrepreneurial and attracted to challenging opportunities.
• Have demonstrated the ability to work in a fast-paced environment where organizational skills are essential and will have strong problem solving, analytical, interpersonal, and ownership skills.
• Possess excellent collaboration skills with a wide variety of internal team members.
• Be an intelligent, self-starting, self-confident individual with integrity and accountability.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills as well as presentation skills.
• Currently hold or ability to obtain Federal DoD security clearance. (SECRET or better)

Contact Jason Peay jpeay@versatechinc.com at Versatech immediately if you are interested.

Recruiters with qualified candidates welcome. 

Open Source Electronic Health Record (EHR) Services: On August 15, 2012, the Technology Acquisition Center awarded contract VA118-12-C-0056 to Ray Group International, LLC, Tampa, Florida, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, in the amount of $4,466,204.99. Funding in the amount of $600,469.31 was obligated at time of award for the base period of performance. This procurement provides tools that are critical to the Department of Veterans Affairs deployment of open source Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) and services related to the modernization of VistA, which making it easier for application developers to write new applications for use by clinicians.