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Procurement documents for the Department of State TalentMAP system, which will replace the existing Foreign Service Bidding application to match bidders to available posts and positions.

Agile BPA Task Order for Department of State TalentMAP System

TalentMAP is anticipated to replace the Foreign Service Bidding (FSBid) application and serve as a unified source of information (currently stored outside of FSBID) regarding available Foreign Service positions and post data for Foreign Service employees. FSBid is the current system of record for internal bidding and assignment processes for Foreign Service employees. TalentMAP’s primary goal is to bring about a more secure, reliable and dedicated system to support the Bureau of Human Resources’ Career Development and Assignments Office (HR/CDA) business processes. HR/CDA supports the mission of the DOS by transparently and equitably assigning employees with the right skills to the right positions at the right time. The three Career Development Divisions of HR/CDA (EL, ML, and SL) are staffed by Career Development Officers (CDOs) who represent their clients in the assignments process. They provide counseling and advice on issues related to assignments from bidding to arrival at post, tenure, promotions, developmental training, tour of duty (including extensions and curtailments), skill code change, and leave without pay. HR/CDA also includes the Assignments Division (HR/CDA/AD), which supports the assignments process, the Professional Development Unit (HR/CDA/PDU), which manages details and long term training assignments, and the Office of Continuity Counseling (HR/CDA/CC), which supports mentoring and counseling programs, among other functions.

Instructions

The documents in this repository were originally posted to eBuy under RFQ#1169875. The documents in eBuy should always be considered the documents of record.

Please submit any questions by February 15th, 2017 at 12:00pm. Please note at this time that TTS and the Contracting Officer will only be responding to questions submitted by Agile BPA vendors. Comments from other parties will still be considered but we cannot commit to responding to them.

The deadline for offers closed on March 6th, at 12:00pm, Eastern Time.

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bpa-dos-talentmap's Issues

Does the existing Bidding Tool have an API developed to query for post related data

Question/Comment on the State Talent Map

Name and affiliation

Blake Newman, Agileana (Agile BPA holder)

Section of RFQ documents

PWS 4.0 Task 1

Question/Comment

Does the existing Bidding Tool have an API developed to query for post related data?

FIPS 140-2 certification process

Question/Comment on the State Talent Map

Name and affiliation

Blake Newman, Agileana (Agile BPA holder)

Section of RFQ documents

PWS 5.0

Question/Comment

States that contractor shall structure a database based on an XML or JSON schema, which must comply with FIPS 140-2. Does the developed system need to go through the entire FIPS 140-2 certification process to be compliant?

Projected Vacancies algorithms

Question/Comment on the State Talent Map

Name and affiliation

Blake Newman, Agileana (Agile BPA holder)

Section of RFQ documents

PWS 4.0 Task 1

Question/Comment

Projected Vacancies (e.g., factors that influence when a position could be available)....do these algorithms already exists or does the vendor need to create them?

Deployment environment

Question/Comment on the State Talent Map

Name and affiliation

Blake Newman, Agileana (Agile BPA holder)

Section of RFQ documents

PWS 5.0

Question/Comment

Operational requirements, it is mentioned that "Cloud Deployments" are a required skill set. However the govt stated that Windows Server 2012 R2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6.x are the anticipated deployment environments. Can the government confirm if the code will be deployed to an on prem DoS environment, or if a deployment environment such as AWS can be used

Data formats to be ingested

Question/Comment on the State Talent Map

Name and affiliation

Blake Newman, Agileana (Agile BPA holder)

Section of RFQ documents

PWS 4.0 Task 1

Question/Comment

Contractor shall develop a system that can ingest data from multiple DOS data sources to properly integrate, display, and manage information related to DOS employees, Diplomatic Posts, and Foreign Service Positions. ... Can you please describe the data formats that need to be ingested and frequency?