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D. D ELIVERABLES

This section iterates all deliverables of the proposed project effort.

Deliverable Area Deliverable Description

1.A Application Requirements Services

Development of detailed functional requirements document for the Item Authoring and Bank application with the primary artifact being a Functional Requirements Document.

This document will be delivered as part of each software release, refined to include additional requirements and modifications to existing requirements associated with each release.

1.B Technical Systems Requirements Services

Development of detailed technical system requirements document for the Item Authoring and Bank application with the primary artifact

being a Technical Requirements Document.

This document will be delivered as part of each software release, refined to include additional requirements and modifications to existing requirements associated with each release.

2.A Application Design Services

Development of architecture and detailed system design document for the Item Authoring and Bank Application with the primary artifact being a detailed Architecture and Design document. The document will address all functional and technical requirements and will include the following components at a minimum:

• User Stories

• Domain models

• Flow diagrams

• Enterprise integration models

• Entity relationship models

• Class diagrams

• Logical and Physical Data models

This document will be delivered as part of each software release, refined to include additional functionality being provided with each release.

2.B Application Development Services

Service activities surrounding the system development for the Item Authoring and Bank Application. This activity includes all effort to construct the application, including preparing the hosting environment for production application use and preparing a demonstration site.

The primary deliverables of this activity are encompassed in Product Deliverable 4, Item Authoring and Item Pool Application Software.

2.C Quality Assurance and Testing Services

Development of a test plan and testing specifications for the Item Authoring and Bank application. The specific artifacts from this service activity are as follows:

1) Test Plan and Specifications document encompassing:

• Unit Testing

• System Testing

• User Acceptance Testing

• Performance Testing

• Operations Testing

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Deliverable Area Deliverable Description

2) Test results for testing that has been completed.

Both the test plan and test results will be delivered as part of each software release, refined to include additional testing components, test cases and test results for functionality being provided with each release.

2.D Data Portability-Item/Test, Stimuli, and Multimedia Import module

Data mapping requirements to support mass import process, software programs, verification procedures, and error reports. This deliverable will be provided as part of the Technical Requirements document. If necessary it can be published as a separate document.

2.E. Application Deployment Services

A Production environment prepared to support required system functionalities, including all necessary hardware and software. The Work Plan outlined in Section B of the proposal describes how this deliverable will be met.

2.F. Training Services Development of training materials for the Item Authoring and Bank application. The specific artifacts produced from this service activity are as follows:

1) Application Users Guide 2) Training Guides

3) Self Learning Tutorial

These artifacts will be delivered as part of each software release, refined to include additional functionality being provided with each release.

3.A Application Maintenance and Support Services

Detailed application maintenance and support for the period of time the application is in production. This include the following recurring activities:

1) Help Desk and production application support (Level 1, 2 & 3) 2) Production fixes for issues (“bugs”) identified with completed

features

3) Release of application enhancements after the initial software release

4) Monitoring and system maintenance of the application within the hosting environment

5) Document updates related to production fixes and additional features.

Services will be provided on a continuous basis starting August, 2012.

3.B Application Hosting Services

Hosting of the Item Authoring and Bank Application, to include the following services:

1) Hosting facility for hosting the application.

2) Managed services to ensure the application and associated infrastructure are maintained and fully operational.

3) Security capabilities to ensure the application is fully protected in the hosting environment.

4) Disaster recovery capabilities to ensure application availability.

5) Scalability capabilities to allow for easy application growth.

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Deliverable Area Deliverable Description

Services will be provided on a continuous basis starting approximately two months after contract award.

3.C Knowledge Transfer, Transition, and Turnover

Transition of the Item Authoring and Bank application to SBAC or its designee, to include the following services:

1) Construction of a technical systems manual

2) Transitioning application hardware and software to SBAC 3) Administrative training

4) Development of application transition checklist 5) Professional support after transition

Several artifacts will also be generated as part of this activity:

1) Transition Plan

2) Application Transition Checklist 3) Technical Systems Manual

These services will begin approximately one year prior to contract end with the Transition Plan and Technical Systems Manual being delivered as defined in the Work Plan.

4 Item Authoring and Item Pool Application Software

This is the primary product deliverable of the project, encompassing the following areas:

1) The Item Authoring and Bank Application running in a production hosted environment, meeting the defined project requirements, and released according to the release schedule defined in the project work plan.

2) The demonstration application that demonstrates system functionality.

3) All support applications needed to maintain and operate the primary application.

4) All technology infrastructure needed to support the application.

Components of this deliverable will be delivered as defined in the project work plan.

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