Notice ID: 36C77622Q0094
“The Contractor shall perform an independent review and analysis, verification, and validation of VA’s existing real property data/processes and will develop a Data Quality Plan Report in accordance with the framework as outlined in the bulleted list [below]. VA’s real property data is maintained in the Capital Asset Inventory (CAI) database and contains approximately 14,500 assets in total…”
“This documentation – the data quality plan – shall include the following:
- A brief description of the data quality program and how it is managed.
- Provide agency level real property policy and data quality guidance for the first submission and then any subsequent changes made to the guidance for future submissions.
- Documentation of Verification (Data Entry) and Validation (Data Testing) policies, procedures, and processes.
- Current data quality goals for the agency.
- Descriptions of the independent third-party review and how the agency plans to implement suggestions from the third party to make improvements.
- Explain which organization conducted the third-party review.
- List of data elements that do not meet the agency’s data quality goals with a hypothesis to explain the data quality deficiency.
- Corrective action plan to address items that do not meet your agency’s data quality goals.
- List of lessons learned and best practices.”
“This review and analysis will include the verification and validation of VA’s real property data for a limited number of VA stations/locations as well as the data entry business rules and protocols of the CAI database to the extent that they affect data quality. Final work products include:
- the development of a data quality baseline for VA real property data based on the comparison analysis between the CAI data and the review of the corresponding actual real property assets,
- a review of VA’s existing Data Quality program, which is currently informal and ad-hoc, and
- the development of an initial Data Quality Plan Report along with data quality improvement recommendations sufficient to meet the requirements of OMB Memorandum M-18-21 and the current FRPC guidance Agency-Level Federal Real Property Profile Data Quality Improvement Program Guidance (“FRPC Guidance”) which are both included as Attachments “C” and “D” respectively…”
