DH10--RFI: Connected Care Infrastructure as a Service

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) hosted in the VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) , 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 utilizes the VAEC to provide 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 ongoing sustainment of the VA VA CC IaaS which will be hosted within the VAEC using government furnished cloud capacity.  Please provide responses to the questions below as well as any additional comments, feedback, information, or questions related to this request.  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.

See attached document: RFI_36C10B22Q0149.

See attached document: QA - CC IAAS.