EXPERT ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE

The U.S. Census Bureau intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR Part 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source, based on the need for continuity. The Census Bureau intends to solicit and negotiate with Ira Gershkoff, Ashburn, VA for expert consultation advice and Program management assistance at the Census Bureau. It is critically important to maintain continuity of ongoing initiative, projects and other efforts, many of which are time-critical, in order to avert interruptions, delays, duplicative work, relearning, and excessive costs. The contractor will provide a study on 2020 Field Operations, defining the key parameters to research and design a major reengineering. The specific tasks shall include, but are not limited to, the following: The specific tasks shall include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. High-Level Design and Architecture-Outlining the overall system functionality and data flows, defining the main processes to be developed and how they will interface with existing processes used at the Census Bureau. 2. High-Level Work Plan-Defining a series of milestones that must be accomplished in order to realize the benefits of the proposed new functionality, and a timeline for those milestones 3. Business Case-Developing good-faith estimates of the: ·Cost of detailed design, development, and deployment of the proposed additional functionality ·Benefits to the Government, mostly in the form of reduced costs of field operations in conducting the 2020 census (relative to what would have occurred without the investment) ·Risk-adjusted return on the Government's investment