IBM Global Business Services in Bethesda, MD received a 5-year, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $20 million for the Special Operations Resource Business Information System (SORBIS), which will provide enterprise business system tools for the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). This is intended to improve the command’s planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and program information reporting. The ordering period will be completed in August 2014. The contract number is H92222-09-D-0048.
SORBIS will help USSOCOM prepare the annual budget it submits to the US Congress…
The SORBIS project is an effort to provide business system tools for USSOCOM to improve planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and program information reporting. The software and hardware are to be located on the command’s Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) and consist of a user interface for data entry and retrieval and automated generation of planning, programming, budgeting, and execution documents. It will also contain business intelligence reporting tools for creating standard, ad hoc, and dashboard reporting; databases; and data management tools.
The new system is intended to consolidate the USSOCOM resource management and acquisition information system process that currently use 3 separate automated systems. Each system operates to support a single functional area: financial execution; planning, programming and budgeting; and acquisition management/program information reporting. These systems are hosted on 3 different platforms and use 3 different information technologies and databases.