Task Area 2 - Integrated Solutions Management

The requirements of this task area include management and technical support for research, analysis recommendation, and documentation of integration issues and approaches.  The issues and approaches considered under this area evolve from a variety of sources such as external audits, technical reports, Federal standards, operational policies and doctrines, technical guidelines and best practices. The contractor shall assist the government in performing the following activities for services required under this task area:

Integration Management Support  Provide support to the Government’s integration program.  This includes conducting management reviews to identify integration issues and problems such as requirements definition, architecture and policy compliance and engineering guideline compliance.

Cross-Functional Integration Support  Identify cross-functional applications and technical issues from selected symbiotic functional areas and document the opportunities for resolving issues.  Recommend opportunities for resolving issues in requirements, data, applications and infrastructure elements.  Also, plan, analyze and report programmatic impacts on the issues such as costs, risk analysis, return on investment, schedule dependencies, and recommend functional and technical solutions.

Analysis and Review  Examine functional, management, and technical requirements and/or issues to provide effective solutions for integration efforts that include:

• Requirements Analysis
  
• Compliance with Legal and Regulatory Guidance
  
• Interoperability
  
• Architectures
  
• Common Infrastructure Services
  
• Open Systems Environment
  
• Security
  
• Standards
  
• Data and Data Sharing
  
• Functional and Technical Integration
  
• Benchmarking/Baselining.

Information Dissemination  Provide information dissemination support relating to the technical requirements and functional areas supported by this contract.  Conduct activities such as professional development seminars, demonstrations, trade shows, conferences and briefings relating to enterprise-wide integration issues or programs.  Implement an integrated solutions management capability and identify integration issues and problems such as requirements definition, architecture and policy compliance and engineering guideline compliance; identification of cross-functional applications and technical issues; examination of functional, management and technical requirements and/or issues to provide effective solutions for integration efforts, and conduct of activities to facilitate enterprise-wide integration issues and operational employment.

User Assistance  Develop user assistance end-user facing services and activities, including analysis and review of compliance with legal and regulatory guidance, architectures, common infrastructure services, security and standards.