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The contractor will participate in meetings, teleconferences, email correspondence, and other online collaborative systems to guide the project team to a successful project conclusion. The contractor will provide advice based on his/her successful experience with similar projects; evaluate circumstances , critique team work products, and facilitate stakeholder meetings.
Period of Performance
May 1, 2008 through November 28, 2008.
Contractor Performance Requirements
- Monthly Itemized Resource Use Reports: The contractor will provide an itemized list of the work completed, the personnel involved in the work, and the number of hours and costs associated with each work component as appropriate.
- Staff Interactions: The contractor will meet/teleconference/correspond frequently with identified NMFS staff to discuss progress, problems, and review analysis.
- Written Work Product Critiques: The contractor will provide written critiques of project outlines, draft documents, and presentations. These will be informal notes intended for internal team use.
Specific Objectives/Tasks:
Task 1:
- Advising Advise the project team with respect to identifying, characterizing, and communicating with stakeholders. Lead the team though a process to identify stakeholders and characterize them with respect to their interest in the outcome and their sensitive issues. Advise on the development of a stakeholder communications plan. Facilitate teleconferences and/or meetings with stakeholders.
Task 2:
- Advising Advise the project team with respect to alternative approaches. Based on experience and knowledge of the eSignature arena, direct and facilitate team research and analysis. Connect team members with other practitioners in the eSignature field.
Task 3:
- Reviewing project outlines, drafts, and presentations, providing context for the proposed solution, including comparisons between the proposed solution and with prior art, and/or analysis with respect to industry norms or best practices
Task 4:
- Assistance developing and presenting Assist in drafting final documents and presentations. Present the solution to stakeholders and participate in question and answer sessions.
Contract Deliverables and Deadline for Each:
- June 18, 2008 – Stakeholder communication plan, identifying stakeholders, the nature of their interest, their sensitive issues, the stakeholder contact, and how to keep them informed and engaged.
- July 16, 2008 – Critique the analysis of alternative approaches to each of the constituent components
- Identity Assertion, Person Proofing and Registration
- User Interface and Flow and Signing Ceremony
- Binding Document to Identity, Document Integrity and Tamper Evident Packaging, and Audit Trails
- Application Programming Interface
- August 13, 2008 – Critique the Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis prepared per the procedural directive
- September 17, 2008 – Critique the Implementation Plan prepared per the procedural directive
- October 15, 2008 – Present preliminary results to stakeholders
- November 12, 2008 – Critique final project documents
Other Critical Factors
- Key personnel The contractor shall provide an analyst possessing direct experience leading an electronic signature design in an citizen-to-government context. The contractor must have a track record that clearly demonstrates the skills, knowledge and training to satisfactorily perform the services required under this contract.
- This is a non-personal service contract; personnel performing work under this contract are employees of the contractor and are not employees of the Government.
- Work Location: The work will occur at the contractor's facilities, with travel as necessary to coordinate work with other NMFS components.
- Hours of Operation: Normal operating hours are expected to be 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Local Time Monday through Friday, except for Federal holidays.
- Safety: The contractor will provide for the safety and protection of staff employed in support of this contract. The contractor will be required to complete any NOAA required safety training courses in compliance with NOAA policy.
- Insurance Coverage: The contractor is solely responsible for their own health, workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance as well as applicable social security, local, state, and federal taxes.
- Site Security: Personnel performing work under this contract will be required to pass NOAA security clearances for contractors.
- Computers/Software: The contractor is solely responsible for providing any necessary computers/software and office supplies.
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