The Center for IT Schedule Program has included Refresh 23 in Modification FX73 to reflect the changes to solicitation number FCIS-JB-980001-B, effective March 31, 2009. Please refer to the Modification document for complete changes to the Terms and Conditions of the contract.
Items of importance, according to me:
(1) Adding of new SINs:
132 9 -- Purchase of Used or Refurbished Equipment.
132-60A -- Electronic Credentials, Not Identity Proofed.
132-60B -- Electronic Credentials, Identity Proofed.
132-60C -- Digital Certificates, including ACE.
132-60D -- E-authentication Hardware Tokens.
132-60E -- Remote Identity and Access Managed Service Offering.
132-60F -- Identity and Access Management Professional Services.
(2) Software Maintenance must be identified as a Product or a Service.
(3) Offerors must complete the "Pathway to Success" course.
(4) Submit a two-page (maximum) narrative describing the company’s corporate
experience for all proposed (SINs), regardless of the number of SINs being
offered. For each SIN offered, your company shall provide the type of supplies
and/or professional services procured by either a Government or Commercial
entity for a minimum of two
years.
At a minimum, the narrative shall include the following:
(A) Organization’s number of years of corporate experience relevant to this offer.
(B) Organization’s structure, to include size, experience in the field, and resources available to enable the offeror to fulfill requirements.
(C) Brief history of the organization’s activities contributing to the development of relevant expertise and capabilities.
(D) Information that demonstrates organizational and accounting controls and manpower presently in-house or the ability to acquire the type and kinds of manpower proposed.
(E) Describe/identify how the contract will be marketed to ordering activities.
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Summarized below are the significant changes resulting from Refresh 23:
- The following clauses are ADDED to the
contract:
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- 52.212-4 -- CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS-COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2008)
(DEVIATION I FEB 2007)
- 52.212-4 -- CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS - COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2008)
(ALTERNATE I - OCT 2008) (DEVIATION I - FEB 2007)
- 52.222-51 -- EXEMPTION FROM APPLICATION OF THE SERVICE CONTRACT ACT TO
CONTRACTS FOR MAINTENANCE, CALIBRATION, OR REPAIR OF CERTAIN
EQUIPMENT--REQUIREMENTS (NOV 2007)
- 52.222-53 -- EXEMPTION FROM APPLICATION OF THE SERVICE CONTRACT ACT TO
CONTRACTS FOR CERTAIN SERVICES--REQUIREMENTS (FEB 2009)
- 52.223-15 -- ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN ENERGY-CONSUMING PRODUCTS (DEC
2007)
- 52.233-4 -- APPLICABLE LAW FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT CLAIM (OCT 2004)
- 552.243-72 -- MODIFICATIONS (MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE) (JUL 2000) (ALTERNATE
I - SEP1999)
- I-FSS-600 -- CONTRACT PRICE LISTS (JUL 2004) (ALTERNATE I - DEC
2008)
- The following clauses are DELETED from
the contract:
- 52.204-7 -- CENTRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION (JUL 2006)
- 52.212-4 -- CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (FEB 2007)
(ALTERNATE I - FEB 2007)
- 552.243-72 -- MODIFICATIONS (MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE) (JUL 2000)
- I-FSS-600 -- CONTRACT PRICE LISTS (JUL 2004)
- CI-FSS-003 -- CONTRACT PRICE LISTS (JUL 2004)
- 52.204-7 -- CENTRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION (JUL 2006)
- The following clauses are UPDATED in
the contract:
- 52.212-5 -- CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES OR
EXECUTIVE ORDERS--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (MAR 2009)
- 52.219-9 -- SMALL BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTING PLAN (APR 2008)
- 52.225-13 -- RESTRICTIONS ON CERTAIN FOREIGN PURCHASES (JUN 2008)
- 52.225-5 -- TRADE AGREEMENTS (MAR 2009)
- CI-FSS-052 -- AUTHENTICATION OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (FEB 2009)
- 52.212-5 -- CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES OR
EXECUTIVE ORDERS--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (MAR 2009)
- The following Special Item Numbers (SINs) are ADDED to the Solicitation:
- 132 9 -- Purchase of Used or Refurbished Equipment
Includes the following used or refurbished equipment: telephone equipment, audio and video teleconferencing equipment, communications security equipment, facsimile equipment, broadcast band radio, two-way radio, microwave radio equipment, satellite communications equipment, radio transmitters/receivers (airborne), radio navigation equipment/antennas, pagers and public address systems, communications equipment cables, fiber optic cables, fiber optic cables and harnesses, coaxial cables, desktop computers, professional workstations, servers, laptop/portable/notebook computers, large scale computers, optical/imaging systems, other systems, printers, displays, graphics (light pens, digitizers, touch screens), network equipment, other communications equipment, optical recognition input/output (I/O) devices, storage devices, other I/O and storage devices, ADP support equipment, microcomputer control devices, telephone answering, voice messaging systems, ADP boards, installation of used or refurbished ADP equipment, and installation of used or refurbished telephone equipment.
- 132-60A -- Electronic Credentials, Not Identity Proofed (Assurance Level 1 -
OMB M-04-04) Managed Service Offering
Includes managed service offerings that allow customer agencies to interface applications to the hosted service to act as its identity authentication agent and validate application users or subscribers as they attempt to log in to the agency application. This service offering does not include the requirement to know the true identity of the user. Agencies will rely on the authentication service in granting account access to the user. Offerings must include policy-compliant agency setup, testing, credential issuance, subscriber customer service account management, revocation, and credential validation as part of the basic service.
Technical evaluation criteria are:
- Successful completion of Level 1 Credential Assessment Include Assessment Report
- Successful completion of applicable interoperability testing Include Test Report
- Compliance with guidance in NIST SP 800-63, OMB Memorandum 04-04 and the Credential Assessment Framework
- 132-60B -- Electronic Credentials, Identity Proofed (Assurance Level 2 - OMB
M-04-04) Managed Service Offering
Includes managed service offerings that allow customer agencies to interface applications to the hosted service to act as its identity authentication agent and validate application users or subscribers as they attempt to log in to the agency application. This service offering includes the requirement to know the true identity of the user. Agencies will rely on the authentication service in granting account access to the user. Offerings must include policy-compliant agency setup, testing, identity proofing, credential issuance, subscriber customer service account management, revocation, and credential validation as part of the basic service.
Technical evaluation criteria are:
- Successful completion of Level 2 Credential Assessment Include Assessment report
- Successful completion of applicable interoperability testing Include Test Report
-Compliance with guidance in NIST SP 800-63, OMB Memorandum 04-04 and the Credential Assessment Framework
- 132-60C -- Digital Certificates, including ACES (Assurance Level 3 and 4 -
OMB M-04-04)
Managed services that include the issuance of digital certificates for use by customers to access government online systems. This service offering includes the requirement to know the true identity of the user. Agencies will rely on the validation by the Certification Authority (CA) as proof of certificate validity and grant access to the user. Offerings must include policy compliant ID proofing, Credential issuance, continued account management, revocation, and certificate validation as part of the basic service.
Technical evaluation criteria are:
- Successful completion of Level 3 and 4 Credential Assessment Include Assessment report
- ACES Security Certification and Accreditation (C&A) as a condition of obtaining and retaining approval to operate as a Certification Authority (CA) under the ACES Certificate policy and the GSA ACES Program. Include Authorization to Operate (ATO) letter.
- Common criteria for other Certification Authorities cross certified by the Federal Bridge
- Compliance with guidance in NIST SP 800-63, OMB Memorandum 04-04 and the Credential Assessment Framework
- 132-60D -- E-authentication Hardware Tokens
An optional hardware token for generation of ACES key pairs and storage of the private key.
Offerings must be:
- Listed on GSA s FIPS 201 Approved Products List.
- Crypto Modules must be FIPS 140-2 validated.
- 132-60E -- Remote Identity and Access Managed Service Offering
Managed services that allow agencies to interface to the hosted service that is aggregating multiple identity sources into a single interface, and to use policy compliant sources to validate application users or subscribers as they attempt to log in to agency applications. This service offering includes the requirement to know the claimed identity of the user. Agencies will rely on the output in granting account access to the user. Offerings must include precursor services such as bulk load, testing, identity proofing, credential issuance, subscriber customer service account management, revocation, and credential validation as part of the basic service. Also includes translation and validation services, and partial services such as 3rd-party identity proofing or secure hosting.
Technical evaluation criteria are:
- Demonstrated compliance with NIST SP 800-63, as applicable to the technologies being utilized by the offeror.
- Compliance with published E-Authentication architecture, verified by a clearance letter from GSA s Office of Governmentwide Policy.
- Compliance with OMB M-04-04.
- 132-60F -- Identity and Access Management Professional Services
Supports planning, risk assessment, deployment, implementation and integration services for customer agency applications, including operations and customer service, for both certificate-based and non-certificate-based applications.
Technical evaluation criteria are:
- Documented experience with deployment of policy-compliant Identity and Access Management projects in government agencies. This includes IAM technologies and standards, including Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and the WS-Federation specification. Offerors should describe in detail their competencies when proposing under this SIN.
- Offerors must describe their involvement in at least 2 prior federal government application deployment projects for public-facing IT systems.
- 132 9 -- Purchase of Used or Refurbished Equipment
- The following Special Item Numbers (SINs) are DELETED from the Solicitation:
- 132 60 -- Access Certificates for Electronic Services (ACES) Program
This program provides identity management and authentication services and ACES digital certificates for use primarily by external end users to access Federal Government electronic services and transactions in accordance with the X.509 Certificate Policy for the Federal ACES Program.
NOTE: Digital Certificate Products and accompanying PKI Services are for external users to conduct electronic transactions with Federal agency applications. This facilitates secure electronic access to government information and services using public key infrastructure/digital signature technology. Digital Certificate Products and Services provide the speed and immediacy of electronic transactions while protecting business-critical information from interception, tampering, and unauthorized access. The General Services Administration (GSA) has established the Access Certificates for Electronic Services (ACES) Program to provide digital certificates and PKI services for enabling E-Government applications that require logical access control, digital signature and/or electronic authentication. The ACES Program provides for the issuance of electronic credentials to individuals and entities external to the Federal Government. The Federal PKI Policy Authority has approved the policies and requirements of the ACES Program to satisfy
NOTE: SIN 132 60 was replaced by SINs 132 60 A-F
- 132 60 -- Access Certificates for Electronic Services (ACES) Program
- The following Special Item Numbers (SINs) are UPDATED in the Solicitation:
- 132-8 -- Purchase of New Equipment
Includes telephone equipment, audio and video teleconferencing equipment, communications security equipment, facsimile equipment, broadcast band radio, two-way radio, microwave radio equipment, satellite communications equipment, radio transmitters/receivers (airborne), radio navigation equipment/antennas, pagers and public address systems, communications equipment cables, fiber optic cables, fiber optic cables and harnesses, coaxial cables, desktop computers, professional workstations, servers, laptop/portable/notebook computers, large scale computers, optical/imaging systems, other systems, printers, displays, graphics (light pens, digitizers, touch screens), network equipment, other communications equipment, optical recognition input/output ( I/O) devices, storage devices, other I/O and storage devices, ADP support equipment, microcomputer control devices, telephone answering, voice messaging systems, ADP boards, installation of ADP equipment, and installation of telephone equipment.
NOTE: All references to USED or REFURBISHED equipment were removed from SIN 132-8 and are now covered under the new, SIN 132-9. All contract holders with used or refurbished equipment must notify the Contracting Officer, via a Cover Letter, as to which equipment are "used or refurbished" and be modified to SIN 132-9 (deleted from SIN 132-8 and added to SIN 132-9). If these items are not modified, the contract may be cancelled.
- 132-12 -- Maintenance of Equipment, Repair Services and/or Repair/Spare
Parts
Maintenance, Repair Service, and Repair Parts/Spare Parts for Government-Owned General Purpose Commercial Information Technology Equipment, Radio/Telephone Equipment, (After Expiration of Guarantee/Warranty Provisions and/or When Required Service Is Not Covered by Guarantee/Warranty Provisions) and for Leased Equipment.
- 132-32 -- Term Software License
Includes operating system software, application software, EDI translation and mapping software, enabled E-Mail message based products, Internet software, database management programs, and other software.Software maintenance as a product includes the publishing of bug/defect fixes via patches and updates/upgrades in function and technology to maintain the operability and usability of the software product. It may also include other no charge support that is included in the purchase price of the product in the commercial marketplace. No charge support includes items such as user blogs, discussion forums, on-line help libraries and FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), hosted chat rooms, and limited telephone, email and/or web-based general technical support for user s self diagnostics.
Software maintenance as a product does NOT include the creation, design, implementation, integration, etc. of a software package. These examples are considered software maintenance as a service under SIN 132.34 Software Maintenance.
Software Maintenance as a product is billed at the time of purchase.
- 132-33 -- Perpetual Software License
Includes operating system software, application software, EDI translation and mapping software, enabled E-mail message based products, Internet software, database management programs, and other software.Software maintenance as a product includes the publishing of bug/defect fixes via patches and updates/upgrades in function and technology to maintain the operability and usability of the software product. It may also include other no charge support that is included in the purchase price of the product in the commercial marketplace. No charge support includes items such as user blogs, discussion forums, on-line help libraries and FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), hosted chat rooms, and limited telephone, email and/or web-based general technical support for user s self diagnostics.
Software maintenance as a product does NOT include the creation, design, implementation, integration, etc. of a software package. These examples are considered software maintenance as a service under SIN 132.34 Software Maintenance as a Service.
Software Maintenance as a product is billed at the time of purchase.
- 132-34 -- Maintenance of Software as a Service
Software maintenance as a service creates, designs, implements, and/or integrates customized changes to software that solve one or more problems and is not included with the price of the software. Software maintenance as a service includes person-to-person communications regardless of the medium used to communicate: telephone support, on-line technical support, customized support, and/or technical expertise which are charged commercially.Software maintenance as a service is billed in arrears in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3324.
- 132-50 -- Training Courses
Includes training.
- 132-51 -- Information Technology Professional Services
Includes resources and facilities management, database planning and design, systems analysis and design, network services, programming, millennium conversion services, conversion and implementation support, network services project management, data/records management, subscriptions/publications (electronic media), and other services.
- 132-8 -- Purchase of New Equipment
- The following Solicitation Attachments are UPDATED in the Solicitation Package:
- Past Performance Evaluation
- Proposal Price List Preparation
- Commercial Sales Practice Format (CSP-1)
- Letter of Supply Template
- Blanket Purchase Agreement Template
NOTE: The Blanket Purchase Agreement Template was originally located within the Proposal Price List Preparation attachment, but is now a separate attachment. The content of the Blanket Purchase Agreement Template was not altered.
- Past Performance Evaluation
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