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INTRODUCTION THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) Sources Sought for the Benefits Da... INTRODUCTION THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) Sources Sought for the Benefits Data Quality Procurement. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes only. There is no obligation for the Government to acquire any products or services described in this Sources Sought. In accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations, responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this effort. The information provided may be used by VBA in developing its acquisition. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. Only electronic responses to this Sources Sought will be accepted. The Government will not pay for any time expended or information submitted in response to this Sources Sought. Eligibility in participating in a future acquisition does not depend upon a response to this Sources Sought. Business type under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 541512 Computer Systems Design Services. The size standard for this NAICS is $30M. 2.0 BACKGROUND: At this time a draft PWS is not available; however, the primary goal of the VBA Data Quality Program is to improve the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and latency of the data. The Contractor shall assist VBA in its current tasks and in improving data integrity throughout the enterprise (including but not limited to identity management), engage in all Data Governance activities across the agency, identify FboNotice causes of duplicate record creation, and support business process improvement. These tasks are divided between tasks requiring specific, defined deliverables with clear deliverable schedules, and ongoing support services tasks where a continued contractor presence will be needed to either 1) meet daily needs or 2) sustain continued long-term program progress where the task deliverables will be continually adjusted or affected by VBA s operations. The Contractor shall improve timelines and processing of remediation through process improvement in collaboration with all stakeholders involved in the remediation process, both internal and external to VBA. VBA would require the contractor to provide the following: Address data quality issues affecting all records by performing both manual and automated programmatic data reconciliation. Analyze data quality issues to identify trends and patterns within the data, specifically FboNotice causes and provide recommendations based on the analysis. Create a case management process for data reconciliation to address data quality issues affecting individual records based on prioritization of remediation as defined by business processes and business rules. Facilitate and drive the resolution of data quality corrective actions with both internal and external stakeholders from various Lines of Business and Staff Offices. Assist VBA with the development, implementation, and documentation of policies, procedures, and business processes to address data quality issues. Assist and promote the VBA Data Governance Council by focusing on the needs of VBA s organizations and designating Authoritative Data Sources (ADS) to align them with policies, procedures, and organizational goals. Perform data extraction for automation, building direct data feeds, identifying & addressing system limitations, promoting data provenance, enabling advanced analytics and business intelligence while ensuring availability and accessibility through structured data management will be key elements targeted. Assist VBA with the elicitation, documentation, solutioning and project management for the development and implementation of systems requirements to address data quality issues; and Develop training and communications materials and facilitate organizational change management where new policies, procedures or systems changes may be implemented. Assist VBA with identification of data stewardship over data domains which include identity domains, military service domains and contact information domains. Creation and maintenance of data dictionaries for systems, applications, and databases across the enterprise. The Government is seeking the following information to be provided by the vendors when responding to this Sources Sought: Company Information Capability Statement (not to exceed 10 pages) Sources Sought respondents shall provide a capability statement with an overview of a response from the above information sought which is derived from a draft PWS that is currently being established by the customer. COMPANY INFORMATION: Company Name Company Address Company Point of Contact (name, address, telephone number, email address) SAM UEI Number NAICS Codes and business size for NAICS Code 541512 Computer Systems Design Services - Identify if your company has any of the following business concern statuses (include all that apply): Small Business (SB); Certified Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) firm; Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB); Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB); Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB); Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB); Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB); Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HubZone) Small Business; Existing Multiple Award Contract (MAC) vehicles currently held by your company (examples may include General Service Administrations (GSA) schedules, Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs), Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs)) available for the Government s use for this requirement. For each MAC vehicle provide: vehicle name vehicle number date of award expiration date All Small Business firms that respond shall include proof of small business status via their Representations and Certifications in accordance with (FAR 4.1102 Policy). Respondent claiming SDVOSB and VOSB status shall be registered, and Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE) verified in VetBiz Registry www.vetbiz.gov. NOTE: The CO anticipates procuring this requirement as a GSA, 100% SDVOSB Set-aside. Possibly on MAS, Information Technology Professional Services Schedule, Category 54151S. Please indicate if you re registered in https://www.vetbiz.va.gov/. 4.0 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All submissions should be provided electronically in a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format. Interested parties who consider themselves qualified to perform the services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice by 1400 EST, July 14, 2022. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to Bridget.Bartolomei@va.gov. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. The capability statement shall not exceed 10 pages, total. Responses shall be prepared on standard 8.5 x 11-inch paper (charts may be landscaped but must be on 8.5 x 11-inch paper) and shall be in Times New Roman, font size (12), with 1 margins. All pages of the response shall be appropriately numbered and identified with the Sources Sought number. Disclaimer and Important Notes. This notice does not obligate the government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The government reserves the right to use the information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the government to determine the organizations qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents concerning any information submitted.