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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Request for Quotation (RFQ) Number: DOC52PAPT1000018

Legal Information Filing and Tracking System (LIFTS) Project



Section B – Supplies or Services and Prices/Costs

B.1 Contract Type
The USPTO intends to award one (1) hybrid contract consisting of both Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) and Labor-Hour (LH) contract line item numbers (CLINs) as a result of this competition for Legal Information Filing and Tracking Systems (LIFTS). This contract will be a total small-business set-aside. Price will be evaluated on the Base and all Option Periods.
B.2 Period of Performance
This contract award will consist of a base period and four (4) one-year option periods. The period of performance for the contract is as follows:


Base Period

Date of Award - One (1) Year

Option 1

October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012

Option 2

October 1, 2012 – September 30, 2013

Option 3

October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014

Option 4

October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2015


B.3 Schedule of Values


Base Period : Date of Award – One (1) Year

Contract Line Item Number (CLIN)

Description

Units

Unit Price

Total Firm-Fixed Price (FFP)

0001

Software

100 concurrent intranet users







0002

Data Migration Services by Labor Category

Per Hour*

Labor Rate

Not to Exceed Total Price

0003

Installation and Configuration Support

Per Hour







0004

Training










0004A

Admin Training










0004B

End-User Training










0005

Travel

Cost







0006

Annual Maintenance

Each







*Government’s Best Estimate: 160 Hours for Data Migration



Option Period 1: October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012

Contract Line Item Number (CLIN)

Description

Units

Unit Price

Total Firm-Fixed Price (FFP)

1006

Annual Maintenance

Each









Option Period 2: October 1, 2012 – September 30, 2013

Contract Line Item Number (CLIN)

Description

Units

Unit Price

Total Firm-Fixed Price (FFP)

2006

Annual Maintenance

Each










Option Period 3: October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014

Contract Line Item Number (CLIN)

Description

Units

Unit Price

Total Firm-Fixed Price (FFP)

3006

Annual Maintenance

Each










Option Period 4: October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2015

Contract Line Item Number (CLIN)

Description

Units

Unit Price

Total Firm-Fixed Price (FFP)

4006

Annual Maintenance

Each








B.4 Firm Fixed Price (FFP) CLINs 0001, 0004 and 0006
Pricing associated with these firm-fixed-price CLINs and their associated Option CLINs shall include all necessary labor, materials, equipment and other resources necessary to provide the specific deliverables identified in Section F.3.
In no event shall the contractor be authorized to incur costs under this contract in excess of the quantities identified above without the prior authorization of the Contracting Officer.
B.5 Labor Hour (LH) Pricing CLIN 0002 and 0003
(a) This hybrid contract is partially issued on a Labor Hour (LH) basis for CLINs 0002 and 0003 by Labor Category and all will be priced in accordance with the pricing set forth in Section B.3 Schedule of Values. The labor rates in this section reflect fully-burdened labor rates for each labor category and will apply to all direct labor hours.
(b) Labor: Section B.3 Schedule of Values represents fully –loaded rates for each skill classification. The fully-burdened labor rates include all direct, indirect, general and administrative costs and profit associated with providing the required skill. The fully-burdened labor rates include all labor and labor-related costs, such as, but not limited to, the following list of representative labor-related costs: salaries, wages, bonuses to include stock bonuses, incentive awards, employee stock options, stock appreciation rights, employee stock ownership plans, employee insurance, fringe benefits, contributions to pension, other post-retirement benefits, annuity, employee incentive compensation plans, incentive pay, shift differentials, overtime, vacation time, sick pay, holidays, and all other allowances based upon a comprehensive employee compensation plan. The use of uncompensated overtime is not encouraged. All hourly rates are based on a 40-hour work-week (ex. 1,920 hours per year or in accordance with the Contractor’s Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Disclosure Statement), if available.
(1) Government Site Rates: When performing at Government sites, the Contractor shall furnish fully-burdened labor rates. The Government will provide only office space, furniture, office equipment, and supplies as required to support the work. Office equipment would include the use of personal computers and office automation software, to the extent that the contractor personnel have been granted access to USPTO IT systems. For pricing purposes, offerors should assume Government provision of personal computers.
B.6 Travel CLIN 0005
Travel to USPTO will be required for on-site training and installation. We anticipate as many as 3 trips to the USPTO facilities for multiple vendor personnel to support the training, installation, and configuration activities.
B.7 Other Direct Costs (ODCs)
(a) ODCs consist of materials and related travel costs. The cost of general purpose items required for the conduct of the Contractor’s normal business operations will not be considered an allowable ODC in the performance of this contract. Local travel from the contractor’s site to the USPTO will be all inclusive in the proposed fully burdened labor rates.

(b) All ODCs associated with this contract shall be authorized by the Contracting Officer (CO). Other direct costs include all direct costs of a task order that are not attributable to the labor categories. ODCs shall be reimbursed on a time and material basis, unless otherwise negotiated prior to issuance of a contraction modification. Any travel cost associated with this contract, if applicable, shall be in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulations.


Section C - Description / Specifications/ Work Statement

C.1 Statement of Work/Specification
The contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, equipment, services and facilities (except as otherwise specified), in performance of the following Statement of Work/Specifications.
C.1.1 Background
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency under the Department of Commerce (DOC), located in Alexandria, Virginia. The mission of the USPTO is to administer the laws and regulations related to patents and trademarks in order to promote industrial and technical progress in the United States and strengthen the national economy. The USPTO carries out its mission by examining patent and trademark applications, issuing patents and registering trademarks, disseminating patent and trademark information to the public and by encouraging a domestic and international climate in which intellectual property can flourish.
The USPTO has multiple legal offices within the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) that provide administrative and intellectual property law support for the agency. These offices currently use a variety of automated systems and manual processes to manage legal cases and matters. The OGC organization needs a unified, legal case management solution for these organizations to use.
C.2 Purpose
1The purpose of this Statement of Work (SOW) is to acquire commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) legal case-management software for the USPTO. This software is required to allow OGC organizations to manage their legal cases and matters from inception to completion. This software will need to be a turn-key solution and not require modification from the vendor to implement. The vendor will provide installation assistance; administrator and end-user training; and additionally perform a data migration of cases from our current case management system.
C.3 Scope of Work
The contractor shall provide COTS software to fulfill USPTO’s current and future requirements for the management of USPTO legal cases. The software shall have the following capabilities:


Req. No.

Requirement

Required

Preferred

Notes

1

The software shall support 100 concurrent intranet users.

X

 




2

The software shall support five (5) different organizational units, keeping the documents and case data separate from each other.

X

 




3

The software shall be implemented as a browser-based application. (Internet Explorer 8 is the USPTO client browser)

X

 




4

The software shall not require the client workstation to run with local administrator rights (with the exception of an initial installation).

X

 




5

The software shall authenticate users with their existing Windows login credentials using Kerberos protocol.

X

 




6

The software shall manage the storage of electronic documents (files) as part of the case.

X

 




7

The system shall be able to store the following document types as part of a case: Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX), Microsoft Excel (XLS, XLSX), Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX), Microsoft Outlook Message (MSG), WordPerfect (WPD), Image (TIFF, BMP, JPG), Video (AVI, MOV).

X







8

The software shall use Storage Area Network, EMC Documentum, or Microsoft SharePoint for document storage.

X







9

The software shall allow the storage of documents up to 10GB in size.

X

 




10

The software shall allow the storage of up to 100 documents per case.

X







11

The software shall allow a user to do a full text search of case documents.

X

 




12

The software shall provide case-level security, so a case can be secured from all but select individuals.

X

 




13

The software shall determine access authorization via a set of predetermined user roles, based on appropriate security clearance, unique identifiers, and/or the business role of the user, and will allow only authorized users to access information.

X

 




14

The software shall provide a means to scan and OCR paper documents to be part of the case.

 

X




15

The software shall store client and contact information on cases.

X

 




16

The software shall provide a means to add custom data type fields, such as for a Patent Number, Union, Bases of Discrimination, etc.

X







17

The software shall allow for the assignment of a case to one or more users.

X

 




18

The software shall provide a means of scheduling or calendaring case due dates and important events defined by the user.

X

 




19

The software shall provide a tickler or reminder mechanism of upcoming events and important dates.

X

 




20

The software shall allow users to create and save user-defined reports.

X

 




21

The software shall allow users to save report output to a file (PDF, Excel, CSV).

X

 




22

The software shall allow for up to 30 pre-defined case types per organizational unit.

X

 




23

The software shall allow for up to 20 custom case activities (events) to be defined per case type.

X

 




24

The software shall allow for the user to save documents to the case file directly from the user desktop.

 

X




25

The software shall allow for the user to save open Microsoft Word documents directly into the case file.

 X







26

The software shall allow for the user to save emails to the case file directly from the Microsoft Outlook client.

X







27

The software shall have the ability to define document types, such as Brief, Administrative Order, Designation of Attorney, Appeal, Decision, Discovery, Settlement, etc.

X

 




28

The software shall allow for the storing of meta-data for documents, such as Document Owner, Creation Date, Document Name, etc.




X




29

The software shall allow a user to store and track time and expenses associated with a case.

X

 




30

The software shall allow a case to be transferred to another organizational unit within the system.

 X







31

The software shall provide a means to relate separate cases to each other.

X

 




32

The software shall provide context-sensitive online help within the application.

X

 




33

The software shall provide the capability to track user actions in the system, such as access, creation, receipt, modification, transfer, and disposal of information, and will provide the capability to generate reports on these actions.

X

 




34

The software shall provide the ability to archive cases.

 

X




35

The software shall provide an administrative role that will allow multiple users to administer the system.

X

 




36

The software shall be compatible with the USPTO Operating Environment as described in Section C.8

X







37

Section 508 Compliance

X




Must provide proof of conformance through the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template or other information that their products conforms.

For any requirements that are only partially satisfied, or are satisfied in a different way than requested, please explain the deviation clearly and in enough detail to understand the deviation. If the contractor has additional functionality they would like USPTO to consider, please include this information.


C.4 Services
The contractor shall provide the following services:
C.4.1 Administrator Training
The contractor will need to provide administrator training to the existing, in-house personnel at USPTO that will maintain the system. The contractor shall provide training on-site. This training shall be limited to not more than 5 days. This training should provide the knowledge, skills, and materials for the attendees to configure and administer the COTS product for the organization. The training should accommodate up to 10 users attending this training. All training materials will be furnished by the contractor. The contractor shall provide a copy of all training materials with rights for reuse by the USPTO.

C.4.2 End-User Training
The contractor shall provide on-site end-user training to as many as 100 users. The training may be broken into multiple sessions for each organization to accommodate training session size and user schedules. The training shall be limited to not more than 3 days for each user session. All the end-user training should be accomplished within a 2-week on-site period within 60 days of the production deployment. All training materials will be furnished by the contractor. The contractor shall provide a copy of all training materials with rights for reuse by the USPTO.

C.4.3 Installation and Configuration Support
The contractor shall provide phone and on-site assistance to install and configure the software. The USPTO will provide the prerequisite hardware, software, and resources to support the installation and configurations. The product will need to be configured for each of the 5 business units that will be using the system. The USPTO will implement and maintain a test environment as well as a production environment. We expect to need assistance with installing and configuring the test environment and that USPTO will be able to duplicate the installation and configuration into the production environment. We prefer a COTS product that can be readily installed, configured, and maintained completely by in-house personnel. Some of the personnel maintaining and administering the system may be business users with limited IT expertise.

C.4.4 Data Migration Services
The USPTO currently uses Amicus Attorney 5.1.1 with a FairCom database. There are two business units that use this application. The first business unit currently has about 200 active and 500 historical cases with documents that need migrating to the new product. The second business unit has approximately 2500 total cases that need to be migrated. The Amicus.db file is currently about 900MB. The USPTO does not have in-house expertise with the FairCom database to assist with the data migration, although we would be able to provide assistance with the data content. The USPTO would require documentation to show mapping of tables and fields from source to target as part of this effort. The vendor proposal should describe the technical approach to complete this work.
C.5 Problem Notification
The contractor shall notify the USPTO's COTR immediately of all problems that impact or potentially impact the contract, deliverable(s), or project schedule. Such notifications shall be made verbally during normal work hours or at the beginning of the next USPTO workday. For each problem encountered, verbal notification shall be followed by a written report to the Contracting Officer and COTR within 24 hours after the identification of the problem.
C.6 Government-Furnished Support
The Government will provide the contractor with the facilities, physical access, system credentials, and technical support for the installation, configuration, and training.
C.7 Licensing and Maintenance
The USPTO will need 100 user licenses (seats) that can be allocated to any user of the system. The software shall allow up to 100 active users of the system to operate at any given time. The user licenses will be a one-time cost (CLIN 0001). Maintenance fees for licenses shall run concurrent to the option periods and shall be annual beginning after the base period. The licenses for the test environment (to include user licenses) will be at no cost. Software patches, bug fixes, minor upgrades, major upgrades, and new versions will be provided at no cost. The contractor shall provide phone support during normal business hours as part of the annual maintenance.

In cases where a problem cannot be resolved with phone support within 72 hours of an identified problem, the contractor may be asked to come on-site to assist with the resolution.


C.8 USPTO Operating Environment
The USPTO user desktop PCs are at a minimum Intel-based Pentium 4 CPUs at 3.4 GHz with 1GB of RAM. These workstations operate on a 10 Mbps Local Area Network on a centralized Windows network domain. The users have either single or dual 21” LCDs for display. We are currently running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3, however, we are beginning to migrate to Windows 7 Enterprise. The USPTO currently uses Microsoft Office 2003 Professional with the Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack, but we have started to migrate to Microsoft Office 2007 Professional and Microsoft Office 2010 Professional. We additionally use Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional, Internet Explorer 8, and various other applications on baseline workstations. The workstations are configured to meet Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards.
Many of the users regularly telework with laptops and will need to be able to readily view and navigate the application from a 15.4” laptop screen. The teleworkers connect to the PTO Local Area Network through a secure VPN, so there are no additional connectivity requirements.
The USPTO servers must be capable of running both as virtualized clients and on native hardware. Operating Systems supported are Windows 2008 Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. These servers are baselined with current CIS Benchmarks recommendations. Databases supported are Oracle 11g running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition running on Windows 2008 Server. Web Application Servers supported WebSphere 6.1.x running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Apache Web Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The USPTO uses Documentum 6.0 SP1 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Mail and calendar services are provided by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. All network and data encryption implemented must be FIPS 140-2 compliant.
Software application must be Section 508 Accessible and should support Privacy Act and Electronic Records Management requirements for federal information systems found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

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