Notice ID: HT9425-23-LBA-01-RFI
Description Since 1969, USAMRIID has served as the Department of Defense’s (DoD) lead laboratory for medical biological defense research. While our core mission is to protect the warfighter from biological threats, we also investigate disease outbreaks and threats to public health. Research conducted at USAMRIID leads to medical solutions—therapeutics, vaccines, diagnostics, and information—that benefit both military personnel and civilians. USAMRIID is a subordinate laboratory of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. The USAMRIID’s mission is to provide leading edge medical capabilities to deter and defend against current and emerging biological threat agents…
Objective 1: Sustain BLMS. The contractor shall sustain the BLMS system and support expanded use of its capabilities. The primary objective is to maintain operational capability and make continual minor improvements to the system to increase performance, ease of use, and/or address changes in business processes. This includes performing patching and upgrades to new releases of the system software. The contractor is free to propose a different architectural/configuration strategy for BLMS, if they believe that it would improve performance and/or reduce costs. However, any proposed changes shall be described in the proposal and should include the rationale. A plan shall be provided for how these changes would be implemented.
Objective 2: Option: “Major” changes and/or repairs. The Contractor shall have the ability to provide additional resources, at the Alliant GWAC pre-negotiated hourly rates, to support major changes or major repairs to the BLMS system, without interruption to normal/daily operations (i.e. sustainment tasks). “Major changes” are defined as those that extend above and beyond the scope of baseline sustainment tasks, such as implementation of a new application that is not already operational in BLMS (i.e. E-Business Suite (EBS) Project Billing), set-up of data warehouse and reports (trend analysis of the project portfolio, project costs, personnel, and other resources) for the collection trending data, migration to a new application that is replacing a similar product being de-supported by Oracle (i.e. the former Oracle Collaboration Suite), and/or expansion of the system to include other tenants who may adopt the system, such as another USAMRMC laboratory and sustainment there after. “Major repairs” would include activities required by the Offeror to restore operation of the system due to a failure from which the system could not recover using a backup.
