70 -- SIPCOR Sources Sought notice

SIPCOR INDUSTRY DAYRequest for Information/Sources Sought GSA IT SCHEDULE 70 On Monday, December 17, 2007, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) will host an Industry Day at its Crystal City Headquarters located at 2200 Crystal Drive (CP4) in room L1301 from 9:00 a.m eastern standard time to 12:00 est. The purpose of the Industry Day is to conduct market research (pursuant to FAR Part 10). Therefore, this notice does not obligate the Government. The Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is exploring options to replace the current Schedules Input Program (SIP) with an outsourced catalog data management solution. FAS would like to outsource all processes and management of catalog data. This would include formatting data for offers and modifications submitted by 18,000 FAS schedule contract holders. Contractors must have capacity to timely process over 14 million schedule items. The data may be submitted in multiple forms including electronic files i.e. Excel, EDI, Access and hard copy catalogs. The 3rd party contractors will be responsible for extracting and formatting catalog data so it can be successfully uploaded to GSA Advantage. The 3rd party contractors will be responsible for obtaining all necessary data and files and submitting the information to FAS for upload to GSA Advantage. The 3rd party contractors will be responsible for ensuring accuracy and completeness of the data. In addition, the contractors will be responsible for establishing a corporate quality assurance program to ensure data sent to GSA Advantage is accurate. The GSA Schedules program is the preferred source pursuant to FAR 8.4. SIP providers who are not on GSA Schedule are encouraged to do so. Kindly submit your capability statement and/or RSVP attendance at the Industry Day by email nlt December 14, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. to [email protected]