GPO requires the services of a vendor(s) to provide Repository and Processor Development and Support services and information technology (IT) solutions for the Government Publishing Office's Federal Digital System (FDsys)/govinfo Program. The contractor(s) shall furnish solutions, personnel, and services and otherwise do all items necessary for, or incident to, performance of these requirements in accordance with the statement of work (SOW) that will provided in the upcoming solicitation for this contract. The following outlines the type and number of personnel required for successful performance of tasks. The following role-based specifications outline the responsibilities, technological competencies, experience, and education for each of the labor category that provides IT solutions for the FDsys/govinfo Program. Contractor teaming agreements are welcomed.  

Repository Engineer; 2 Contractor Personnel

Processor Engineer; 1 Contractor Personnel

Senior Java Engineer; 2 Contractor Personnel

Database Engineer/Administrator; 1 Contractor Personnel

FDsys/govinfo background

Govinfo (formerly referred to as GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys)) is a content management system, preservation repository, and public website that manages, preserves, and provides free online access to current and historical information from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States Federal Government today and into the future. Please refer to the System Architecture document at https://www.govinfo.gov/sites/default/files/media/FDsys_Architecture_v5.pdf for additional technical information and the govinfo about pages at https://www.govinfo.gov/about for a user-focused description of the public access website.

The mission of the FDsys/govinfo Program ("Program") is to provide the knowledge, tools, and processes to manage, preserve, and provide access to electronic Federal Government publications. The vision of the Program is to operate an efficient and effective software development program that delivers results and delights users through the use of innovative open technologies. Program values include the following:

• Agility - Rapidly and efficiently adapting to external changes.
• Flexibility - Recognizing when something is not working and adjusting to deliver results.
• Creativity - Generating original thoughts and ideas.
• Innovation - Implementing new solutions that have a positive impact.
• Collaboration - Bringing our unique knowledge, skills, and abilities together.
• Teamwork - Working together to achieve our shared goals.
• Dependability - Competently and consistently taking care of business.
• Reliability - Assisting and supporting stakeholders in their time of need.

In addition to operational support tasks, key efforts for each strategic goal are undertaken based upon identified stakeholder need and agency priority. A few examples that demonstrate the breadth of historical key efforts include developing the govinfo beta website, replacing the legacy FDsys search engine with SOLR, upgrading Documentum Content Server and WebTop, migrating to Jenkins, providing access to Bill Status XML Bulk Data, performing a hardware refresh at the Production and Continuity of Operations instances, providing public access to the Digitized Bound Congressional Record, performing bug fixes and enhancements, and implementing HTTPS on the public website.

To implement key efforts, the Program release cycle includes four planned quarterly releases each fiscal year. Each release includes planning, development, integration, and testing activities that are performed within two week sprints in the Integration, Quality Assurance, and Stage environments followed by one week of activities to deploy to the Production and Continuity of Operations environments. Operational support tasks to monitor the system and provide corrective and adaptive maintenance are performed each day throughout the release cycle.

The Program is currently comprised of multiple onsite, collocated teams that perform specific development and support activities; and teams generally employ either agile Scrum or Kanban practices based on the scope of work to be performed by each team. Generally and as applicable for each team, the roles of Product Owner and ScrumMaster are performed by GPO personnel and rest of the team is comprised of contracted development and support team members.

The proposed contract is expected to be a base one (1) year with four (4) one year options.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code contemplated for this requirement is 541512 (Computer System Design Services).  This project is open to all qualified, responsive, and responsible firms. After solicitation issuance, contractors may view and/or download the solicitation and all amendments at the FedBizOpps website found at https://www.fbo.gov/. 

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