Opportunity: Notice of Intent to Award - TRM Rules Manager

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has a requirement for a firm-fixed price Purchase Order (PO) to Total Resource Management (TRM) Inc., an Information Technology (IT) company providing IT software, IT hardware, and IT services. The PO is for the USGS Office of Administration, Facilities Management Branch, requirement for TRM RulesManager SE¿ for Maximo 5x & up ¿Enterprise¿ software subscription. Period of Performance is as follows: 04/01/2017 ¿ 08/31/2020 The USGS is aware of no other source that can provide the above. Therefore, it intends to make an award to TRM Inc. unless it is contacted by any who believes they have obtained similar technical expertise and can provide the same service. Vendors are invited to contact the Contract Specialist, Chris Kuhn, via email at ckuhn@usgs.gov no later than 12:00 PM EDT, Tuesday, March 28, 2017 with an affirmative answer. Brand Name Justification States the Following Part: Maximo is the US Department of the Interior (DOI) standard maintenance management software solution and has been in use at USGS for the past 14 years. RulesManager is a custom add on product to Maximo used to extend Maximo¿s base functionality to better meet USGS/DOI business requirements. RulesManager has been used with Maximo from the beginning of the USGS deployment and the two products are very tightly integrated. RulesManager provides functionality necessary to implement the automated interface between DOI¿s Financial Business Management System (FBMS) and Maximo, develop and monitor the projects in the bureau deferred maintenance Five Year Plan, and meet other unique bureau business requirements. The functionality provided by RulesManager could not be replicated in total by another product without significant reinvestment and disruption to current system operations. The estimated cost to replace RulesManager functionality is approximately $195,000. Replacement costs are far in excess of any savings hoped to be achieved through competition of this effort. If this support contract is not processed USGS would not be entitled to vendor software technical support, security patches, and upgrades. If RulesManager were to fail the USGS could not readily produce the Bureau Five Year Deferred Maintenance and Capital Improvement Plan or interface with FBMS in addition to other business related functionality that would be lost.