November 16, 2009

Synopsis (PR 9784): FDsys Search Development and Enhancement

 The U.S. Government Printing Office, (GPO), is the Federal Government's primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing, and preserving published U.S. Government information in all its forms. Since its inception, under the authority of Title 44 of the U.S. Code, GPO has provided all three branches of the federal government with a set of centralized services that enables them to efficiently and cost effectively produce both printed and electronic documents. GPO has offered these publications for sale to the public and made them widely available for no fee public access through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP has served the purpose of providing permanent public access to government publications.

This requirement supports GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) program. FDsys is a COTS-based enterprise content management system, with integration customizations to fully meet its requirements. The major COTS products that have been selected for FDsys include EMC's Documentum and an Enterprise Search tool from FAST Search and Transfer (FAST ESP) which are the foundational piece of the content repository. In addition, there are other tools and technologies that are being used to support FDsys. This includes, but is not limited to the use of JAVA for development, Caliber RM for requirements management, the use of Oracle Databases, the use of Mercury for testing, the use of RoboHelp for training, and a host of other COTS tools.

GPO intends to award a contract in support of FDsys for the ongoing design, development and enhancement of the search experience, specific to Microsoft/FAST (FAST ESP's) enterprise search tool, for GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys). The procurement is aimed at providing for continuity for overall search experience in order to support ongoing FDsys development.

The proposed contract is expected to be a one (1) year base plus three (3) one year options.