SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- RFI: Connected Care Infrastructure as a Service
- Notice Date
- 2/2/2022 10:25:39 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION CENTER NJ (36C10B) EATONTOWN NJ 07724 USA
- ZIP Code
- 07724
- Solicitation Number
- 36C10B22Q0149
- Response Due
- 2/10/2022 9:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 04/11/2022
- Point of Contact
- Luis Lozada-Santiago, Contract Specialist, Phone: 848-377-5245
- E-Mail Address
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luis.lozada-santiago@va.gov
(luis.lozada-santiago@va.gov)
- Awardee
- null
- Description
- Contract Opportunity Sources Sought Notice * * * * * * * PRODUCT SERVICE CODE SUBJECT CONTRACTING OFFICE'S ZIP-CODE SOLICITATION NUMBER RESPONSE DATE/TIME/ZONE ARCHIVE DAYS AFTER THE RESPONSE DATE RECOVERY ACT FUNDS SET-ASIDE NAICS CODE CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS POINT OF CONTACT (POC Information Automatically Filled from User Profile Unless Entered) DESCRIPTION See Attachment AGENCY'S URL URL DESCRIPTION AGENCY CONTACT'S EMAIL ADDRESS EMAIL DESCRIPTION ADDRESS POSTAL CODE COUNTRY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION PLACE OF PERFORMANCE * = Required Field Contract Opportunity Sources Sought Notice DA10 RFI: Connected Care Infrastructure as a Service (VA CC IaaS) 07724 36C10B22Q0149 02-11-2022 12:00PM EASTERN TIME, NEW YORK, USA 60 N 541512 Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center 23 Christopher Way Eatontown NJ 07724 Contract Specialist: luis.lozada-santiago@va.gov 848-377-4245 Contracting Officer: juan.quinones@va.gov 848-377-5173 Department of Veterans Affairs Connected Care Infrastructure as a Service (VA CC IaaS) Request for Information Sources Sought Notice Page 3 of 3 Sources Sought Notice *= Required Field Sources Sought Notice Page 1 of 3 Introduction This is a Request for Information (RFI) only issued for the purpose of conducting market research. Accordingly, this RFI constitutes neither a Request for Proposal (RFP) nor a guarantee that one will be issued by the Government in the future; furthermore, it does not commit the Government to contract for any services described herein. Do not submit a Proposal. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is not, at this time, seeking proposals or quotes, and therefore, will not accept, review, or evaluate unsolicited proposals or quotes received in response hereto. This notice is not to be construed as a commitment on the part of the Government to award a contract, nor does the Government intend to pay for any information submitted as a result of this request. The Government does not reimburse respondents for any costs associated with submission of the information being requested or, reimburse expenses incurred for responses to this RFI. The information provided may be used by VA in developing its acquisition strategy and Performance Work Statement (PWS). Any information submitted by respondents to this RFI is strictly voluntary; however, any information received shall become the property of the Government and will not be returned to the respondent. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. This is a request for information and does not obligate the Government in any way, nor does it commit the Government to any specific course of action. Building upon the success of the Mobile Application Cloud Migration (MACM) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), VA s Office of Information and Technology (OIT) seeks to operate, and perform adaptive, perfective, corrective, and preventive maintenance upon, the Connected Care Infrastructure as a Service (CC IAAS), (formerly known as MACM) using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, techniques, and concepts. The VA CC IAAS provides compute spaces for: responsive websites, middleware (services supporting websites and mobile applications), commercial off-the-shelf products, and databases. VA is seeking responses to the questions in Section B. below from interested parties for the VA VA CC IaaS. Please provide responses to the questions below as well as any additional comments, feedback, information, or questions related to the VA CC IaaS. The Government is seeking as much information as possible and a complete response from industry to this RFI during this market research activity which may assist the Government in developing its acquisition strategy and finalizing any PWS. Questions Please submit the below requested information by 12:00PM EST on February 11, 2022 via email to Luis Lozada-Santiago, Contract Specialist, at luis.lozada-santiago@va.gov. VA reserves the right to not respond to any, all, or select responses or materials submitted. All VA current requirements identified herein are subject to change at any time. If you experience any problems or have any questions concerning this announcement, please contact Luis Lozada-Santiago at luis.lozada-santiago@va.gov, 848-377-5245 or Juan Quinones at juan.quinones@va.gov, 848-377-5173. VA appreciates your time and anticipated response. General Company Information Include the following identification information Company Name CAGE/DUNS Number under which the company is registered in SAM.gov Company Address Point of contact name Telephone number Email address VA anticipates that this effort would fall within North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 541512, Computer Systems Design Services, which has a size standard of $30.0M. Are you a small or large business under NAICS 541512 ($30.0M)? If you believe there is a more appropriate NAICS code, please provide that to the Government with your rationale. List any federal contracts in which you are a prime contract holder. With respect to the VA CC IaaS requirement, would you be the prime contractor? As the Prime Contractor, what tasks under the questions in Section B. below would your company perform? Are you able to comply with FAR 52.219-6 and 52.219-14 in execution of this effort? If you are a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business are you able to comply with VAAR 852.219-10, VA Notice of Total Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Set-Aside; 13 CFR 125.6; and VAAR 852.219-77. VA Notice of Limitations on Subcontracting Certificate of Compliance for Services and Construction in execution of this effort? How specifically do you plan on meeting the limitations on subcontracting as set forth in VAAR 852.219-10? Capability Statement Submit a capability statement including responses to the questions below. The capability statement shall be limited to 12 pages. Has your company successfully stood-up an IaaS using AWS for a federal customer? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. How many? When? References? Describe the tech stack, architecture, and capacity. Describe the number of Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) used to implement the IaaS and the purpose of each. Has your company successfully operated and maintained (using adaptive, perfective, preventive, and corrective maintenance) an IaaS using AWS for a federal customer? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. For how long? How many? When? References? Describe your staffing and company by number and labor category. Describe your operational approach. Do you use Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? If so, describe how you applied SRE principles, techniques, and methods to your operations. Has your company successfully implemented, operated, and maintained an active-active AWS multi-region instantiation to include geolocation routing with a federal customer? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. If Yes: For how long? How many? When? References? Describe an example of how your company implemented, operated, and maintained the instantiation (include a description of the architecture). Describe the number of VPCs used to implement the IaaS and the purpose of each. If No: Did your company implement, operate, and maintain a hot / warm instantiation? If it did, then state for how long, how many, and when. Include references. Also, describe an example of how your company implemented, operated, and maintained the instantiation (include a description of the architecture). Describe the number of VPCs used to implement the IaaS and the purpose of each Has your company successfully implemented Site Reliability Engineering as part of a DevOps / DevSecOps product engineering team approach? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. Describe how you implemented SRE and how SRE engineers engaged with software developers. References? How many implementations? When? How long? Has your company delivered architectural services related to IaaS implementation, maintenance, and operations for the following areas of interest? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. Areas of interest: Application Infrastructure Network Security Cloud System For how long? How many? When? References? Describe a successful example of services rendered. Has your company successfully migrated containerized and orchestrated applications and services from on-premises or centralized (non-cloud) data centers to a government cloud? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. How many? When? References? Describe, as an example, a successful migration effort for a previous customer. Has your company successfully implemented, operated, and maintained an IaaS within a multi-cloud environment? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. For how long? How many? When? References? Describe an example of how your company implemented, operated, and maintained the instantiation (include a description of the architecture). Describe the number of VPCs used to implement the IaaS and the purpose of each in each environment. Has your company successfully planned, implemented, operated, and maintained IaaS that hosts cloud based interactive video applications? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. For how long? How many? When? References? Describe an example of how your company implemented, operated, and maintained the instantiation. Examples describing telehealth applications are preferred. Has your company successfully hosted commercial off the shelf (COTS) applications within a government cloud-based IaaS? Yes / no? If yes, then answer the following questions. For how long? How many? When? References? Describe an example of how your company hosted COTS within the IaaS instantiation. Describe how many VPCs were used and for what purposes.
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