IRM Application Services

The Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) may have a continuing requirement for delivering a wide range of software and hardware application development, operations, maintenance and infrastructure services.

Solicitation Summary

The Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) may have a continuing requirement for delivering a wide range of software and hardware application development, operations, maintenance and infrastructure services.

Solicitation in a Nutshell

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Agency The Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM)
Solicitation Number N/A
Status Pre-RFP
Solicitation Date 05/2024 (Estimate)
Award Date 08/2024 (Estimate)
Contract Ceiling Value $227,749,000.00
Solicitation Number N/A
Competition Type 8(a) Set-Aside
Type of Award Task / Delivery Order
Primary Requirement Information Technology
Duration 1 year(s) base plus 4 x 1 year(s) option(s)
Contract Type Time and Materials,Task Order
No. of Expected Awards N/A
NAICS Code(s):
541611
Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
Size Standard: $24.5 million annual receipts
Place of Performance:
  • Washington, District Of Columbia, United States
Opportunity Website: https://www.ebuy.gsa.gov/ebuy/

Background

The mission of DOS is to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere. The mission of IRM is to rapidly and securely deliver anytime, anywhere, the knowledge resources and Information Technology (IT) services needed for the DOS’ diplomatic team worldwide to accomplish the foreign affairs mission of the United States. IRM supports over 300 sites, and 275 missions worldwide.

Requirements

  • The scope of services will include:
    • Enterprise Systems Development and O&M – This program provides full lifecycle enterprise application solutions for the department both domestically and at posts worldwide
    • Data Management – Bring together data and information from disparate sources with predictive analytics capabilities and easily consumable formats that are conducive to making time-sensitive mission decisions based upon readily available, accurate, reliable data and information
    • Enterprise Collaborative Services – This program supports the worldwide deployment of large-scale development projects, intranet portals, and collaboration websites all from one centralized location
    • Enterprise IT Service Management – This program and service offers a robust architecture that has been deployed to support Remedy and its supporting functions,
    • Development Network Support – Support multiple instances of a development network through maintenance and backup of all physical and virtual equipment and software as well as support for troubleshooting, security and patching.
    • Cloud Technologies Support – Support the administrative, operations and maintenance requirements of multiple cloud based services.
    • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – This program provides enterprise hosting of virtual desktop operating systems running on centralized infrastructure. The services include full operations and maintenance support for the program and the end users
    • Telecommunications Equipment Support – Support for both physical and virtual application load balancers, switches and firewalls needed to maintain secure and high availability for enterprise systems

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