Sources Sought for ABMC Electronic Burial Databases

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS ISSUED SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL AND PLANNING PURPOSES AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION. No formal solicitation documents exist at this present time. Responses to this Sources Sought notice will be utilized by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After review of the responses to this Sources Sought notice, a solicitation announcement may be published via SAM.gov | Contract Opportunities. This notice constitutes market research for Microsoft SQL Database and NoSQL services under NAICS codes 541512, 541511. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is seeking vendors capable of designing and implementing an electronic relational and non-tabular databases to connect structured and non-structured data in different repositories so that ABMC staff can fulfill the core element of our mission of "Telling Their Stories” of the service members buried and memorialized at ABMC cemeteries, memorials, and monuments. ABMC’s cemeteries contain almost 125,000 burials from World War I and II, and the Walls of the Missing and monuments are inscribed with the names of almost 95,000 missing in action from the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. Currently, ABMC has an online-searchable database that contains entries for all of these memorializations as well as additional fallen from during Korean War period. ABMC is working to replace our existing online, content management system driven (i.e., Drupal 9.x’s content object-based) database to a new relational and NoSQL databases with both public and internal facing elements to improve the public’s access to information from ABMC, search experience through new search functionalities and responsive search performances, while also enabling efficient information sharing across the agency. The database schema designs for these new relational and NoSQL databases shall be scalable to permit efficient expansions to connect new structured and non-structured data located in different repositories. As part of this project, there is a requirement to reconcile three separate data sources of ABMC burials and memorializations: the existing online Drupal 9.x MySQL database at WWW.ABMC.GOV, the digitized bound volumes of burial record registries and their indexed records in delimiter-separated values (e.g., comma-separated value) files from the hardcopy registries of the World War I and World War II burials and memorializations that the agency produced in the period immediately after the wars, and a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet of identified service members’ remains from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Estimated magnitude of project: $50,000- $100,000. REQUESTED INFORMATION . If you are interested, capable, and can provide the required service, please provide the requested information as indicated below: Company name, address, point of contact, size of business, duns, cage, and contract number. Is this service on contract with your GSA, SEWP, other federal contract? If so, provide the contract type and number. Provide business size status and representations for the above NAICS code. Provide any previous contract award information for past similar projects. All responses to this Sources Sought notice shall be submitted via email to Ms. Anna Nereng at [email protected]. Telephone, Fax, or any other form of communication inquiries will not be reviewed or accepted in response to this Sources Sought notice. Responses must be received no later than 23 May 2022 by 1300 EDT. DISCLAIMER: All information received in response to this RFI marked as proprietary will be handled in accordance with (IAW) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.201(e). Response to this notice is not an offer and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses incurred responding to this Sources Sought notice.