NCUA Information Technology and Support Services (ITSS)
NCUA Information Technology and Support Services (ITSS)
Contract Number: NCUA19D00002
Eligible Agencies: National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
Agency Sponsor: National Credit Union Administration
Point of Contact: info@aretecinc.com
Contract Detail: Aretec provides the NCUA with the full range of services and products for delivering the agency’s application software implementation and post-implementation requirements. Aretec has a strategic partnership with NCUA to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency’s application portfolio, and optimize the strategies, methods, and tools leveraged for implementing, maintaining, and operating applications.
The strategic partnership focuses on:
• Ensuring a mission and customer focus in delivering secure services and solutions;
• Providing proactive solutions and innovation;
• Delivering accurate and predictable services and products while emphasizing quality assurance to minimize defects and rework;
• Promoting continuous improvement;
• Establishing, measuring, and reporting performance targets; and
• Maximizing cost control.
SEC Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)
Contract Number: SECHQ116A0013
Eligible Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Agency Sponsor: Securities and Exchange Commission
Point of Contact: info@aretecinc.com
Contract Detail: The SEC’s regulatory mission is more important today than ever, with a greater emphasis on stronger enforcement of securities laws, transparency, and stringent oversight of registered entities. The driving forces include regulatory reform and associated rule-making, high public expectations, increased congressional oversight, an explosion of trading data volumes, and increased complexity in regulated markets. This SEC BPA’s main objective is to introduce and improve SEC examiner tools with:
1) Enhanced data science and analytical capacities to better scrutinize data
2) Enhanced application performance to improve usability and throughput
3) Enhanced reporting functionality and performance
4) Enhanced data-sharing capabilities across the examiner community
5) Application mobility improvements
SEC QRADS – Channel 1
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Quantitative Research and Analytical Data Support (QRADS) – Channel 1
Channel 1: External Research Support and Technical Expertise
Contract Number: 50310218D0085
Eligible Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Agency Sponsor: Securities and Exchange Commission
Point of Contact: info@aretecinc.com
Contract Detail: The Quantitative Research and Analytical Data Support (QRADS) is a Multiple Award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. It provides the Securities and Exchange Commission with External Research Support and Technical Expertise, Analytical Tool Development, Database Development and Maintenance, Analytical Reports and Data Analysis and Analytical Methods and Support as described in Section C, Statement of Work. The Contractor(s) shall provide in accordance with issued Task Orders (TOs), all management, supervision, labor, facilities, and materials necessary to perform the services on an IDIQ basis.
Aretec provides highly skilled technical expertise to assist SEC researchers in developing text analytics capabilities, and any related support, such as: developing and writing project-specific programs to process data sets using modern analytical methods, statistical modeling techniques, machine learning and statistical processes; analyzing and interpreting statistical data; computing supporting med parsing logic, corpus assembly and maintenance, software creation to run text analysis packages, and report production and maintenance. Aretec performs text analytic tasks, which may include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Running topic models for concept identification, or implementing toptrics; producing and maintaining models, non-OIT middleware, or other analytical products SEC expects to develop and enhance text analytic and other analytic capabilities to provide improved ability to use information in both structured and unstructured text formats. The Contractor(s) will provide services to assist with pre-processing anic model variants;
• Using standard Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to perform named-entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging, etc.;
• Using unsupervised machine learning algorithms to discover hidden relationships amongst documents in a corpus; and
• Developing methodologies/metrics to help assess how documents change over time, and to understand how distinct corpora relate to one another
SEC QRADS – Channel 2
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Quantitative Research and Analytical Data Support (QRADS) – Channel 2
Channel 2: Analytical Tool Development
Contract Number: 50310218D0045 (Ele-Tec JV)
Eligible Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Agency Sponsor: Securities and Exchange Commission
Point of Contact: info@aretecinc.com
Contract Detail: The Quantitative Research and Analytical Data Support (QRADS) is a Multiple Award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. It provides the Securities and Exchange Commission with External Research Support and Technical Expertise, Analytical Tool Development, Database Development and Maintenance, Analytical Reports and Data Analysis and Analytical Methods and Support as described in Section C, Statement of Work. The Contractor(s) shall provide in accordance with issued Task Orders (TOs), all management, supervision, labor, facilities, and materials necessary to perform the services on an IDIQ basis.
Ele-Tec provides highly skilled technical expertise to assist SEC researchers in developing text analytics capabilities, and any related support, such as: developing and writing project-specific programs to process data sets using modern analytical methods, statistical modeling techniques, machine learning and statistical processes; analyzing and interpreting statistical data; computing supporting metrics; producing and maintaining models, non-OIT middleware, or other analytical products SEC expects to develop and enhance text analytic and other analytic capabilities to provide improved ability to use information in both structured and unstructured text formats. The Contractor(s) will provide services to assist with pre-processing and parsing logic, corpus assembly and maintenance, software creation to run text analysis packages, and report production and maintenance. Ele-Tec performs text analytic tasks, which may include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Running topic models for concept identification, or implementing topic model variants;
• Using standard Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to perform named-entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging, etc.;
• Using unsupervised machine learning algorithms to discover hidden relationships amongst documents in a corpus; and
• Developing methodologies/metrics to help assess how documents change over time, and to understand how distinct corpora relate to one another
SEC One IT IDIQ
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Information Technology (OIT) – One IT IDIQ
Contract Number: 50310220D0012
Eligible Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Period of Performance (POP): 10/22/2020 to 10/21/2028
Agency Sponsor: Securities and Exchange Commission
Point of Contact: SECOneIT@aretecinc.com
Contract Detail: The SEC’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) supports the Commission and staff in all aspects of information technology. OIT has overall management responsibility for all of the Commission’s IT programs.
The SEC One IT IDIQ with a ceiling value of $2.5 billion, in additional to contractor primes like Aretec, Inc. offers the agency maximum flexibility in acquiring any IT services-based solution for any conceivable IT services-based requirement, driving government savings through efficiencies and improved reporting data with greater integrity, while maintaining a “One IT” philosophy.
With information technology pervading all aspects of its business, the SEC depends on firms like Aretec for problem resolution and support services to meet its business needs. The SEC expects its partners under contract to deliver optimal daily performance of the SEC IT operations and take day-to-day responsibility for the SEC IT operations, achieving the minimum performance objectives on a daily basis, and taking a proactive approach with the SEC in improving the operations and efficiencies of the SEC IT environment. Below are the service channels the SEC’s One IT IDIQ will cover in support of all their IT objectives:
Service Channels:
- Application Management and Development (PLATFORM)
- Business Solutions Delivery (NON-PLATFORM)
- IT Infrastructure and Operations Management
- Information Security
- Data Management
- IT Governance
- Technology Business Management
