SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Cloud Acquisition Request for Information - RFI and Vendor Questions - Department's Draft Requirements
- Notice Date
- 12/16/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Education, Contracts & Acquisitions Management, Contracts (All ED Components), 550 12th Street, SW, 7th Floor, Washington, District of Columbia, 20202
- ZIP Code
- 20202
- Solicitation Number
- ED-OCIO-CLOUD-RFI
- Archive Date
- 1/30/2016
- Point of Contact
- Andrew Bunk, Phone: 202.245.6241, Christopher Rosier, Phone: 202-245-6502
- E-Mail Address
-
andrew.bunk@ed.gov, Chris.Rosier@ed.gov
(andrew.bunk@ed.gov, Chris.Rosier@ed.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Draft Requirements RFI Background and Vendor Questions The U.S. Department of Education's (the Department) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) is conducting market research on Cloud Service Providers (CSP) that can host web sites in support of the OCIO's cloud strategy, support the Department's Administrative Communications System (ACS) cloud hosting directive, and bring the Department into compliance with the Digital Government Strategy with the following outcomes: • Improved asset utilization and cost savings from a streamlined acquisition and implementation • Improved application development and management from a standard secure platform • Shifted focus from asset ownership to service management • Enabling access and migration to emerging technologies • Meeting diverse Department business needs for cloud computing service models such as Software as a Services (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) The Department's cloud-based web hosting plans seek to remedy low asset utilization, a fragmented demand for resources, duplicative systems, lack of website standardization, and environments which are difficult to manage and require long procurement lead times. The purpose of this document is to understand current best practices in Federal Cloud Hosting to support a potential future acquisition of a Cloud Service Provider (CSP). Cloud services sought by OCIO would host and serve some of the Department's public-facing websites and the current ED.gov infrastructures. The Department requires cloud services to be FedRAMP certified and able to be certified and accredited to Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements with a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 199 categorization of Moderate and comply with the security standards detailed in the FIPS 140-2. The Department is interested in vendors that can, or will in the next 12-24 months, support a FISMA High categorization and the security standards associated with this categorization. Please see the attached documents for the Information that the Department is requesting.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ED/OCFO/CPO/ED-OCIO-CLOUD-RFI/listing.html)
- Record
- SN03970879-W 20151218/151216234240-9c091228d958b15a242e2e4ca8ffde5f (fbodaily.com)
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