Notice ID: 36C10B21Q0126
“The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Office of Enterprise Integration (OEI) co-sponsored development and implementation of the VHA COVID-19 Common Operating Platform (COP) in partnership with the Office of Information and Technology (OIT).”
“VA currently has the Palantir Foundry SaaS solution, which underpins its current COP capability. VA seeks a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that provides the COP operational decision support capability. The VA requires the SaaS solution to be authorized at the FedRAMP Moderate level and meet FISMA requirements at time of proposal submission and fully configurable, deployed and ready for VA use within 14 days of award which will allow the solution to subsequently ingest data, metadata, transformations, and allow user configurations. VA OIT will provide technical SMEs to support obtaining an authority to operate (ATO) and connecting the SaaS platform to the VA’s environment. The vendor shall enter into a Service Level Agreement, provide the Architectural Diagram and Artifacts representing the SaaS product security controls.”
“The SaaS solution shall provide the following functionality:
- An intuitive user interface developed using human centered design approach.
- Supports the integration of the SaaS solution outlined in the salient characteristics in section 1.1 of the draft Product Description (PD) to ensure interoperability with VA platforms and programs that reside within Azure or AWS and Microsoft Active Directory Identity and Access Management Services.
- Support up to 3500 users.
- Ability to scale to support integration with hundreds of VA applications and databases.
- Ability to work across several hundreds of VHA and OEI operational decision makers and the thousands of data engineers, managers, analysts, and scientists supporting them across full spectrum of decision support requirements.
- Ability to support management and curation of our data assets in a coordinated and collaborative fashion, to develop an authoritative integration and democratized (with security and other data policy) access as needed to support mission and business requirements.
- Abilities to provide a pathway to upskill, engage, leverage, onboard, empower, and enhance collaboration and engagement with the existing distributed and decentralized data and analytics workforce. VA human capital driving use and management of data as a strategic asset in our proud tradition of innovation, operational improvement, and health informatics leadership.
- Fine grained, persistent, inherited data access and discovery controls; full support for FISMA and VA data protection polices, including integration with VA Single Sign On, full audit, data immutability, and provenance, and support for role and attribute based access controls. Security controls should persist seamlessly across all service capabilities and further support handling statistical aggregates and masking data.”
“The COTS SaaS solution shall include software licenses, cloud hosting (if appropriate), implementation (including installation, integration, configuration, testing, and deployment) as well as other professional services (as necessary), and training of VA users.”
“The platform implementation – including user, data protection, interoperability, security and technical configurations shall support a full operational decision-making capability that satisfies business and operational use case requirements. VA’s current solution enables analysis of data as it relates to effective and efficient delivery of VA products and services and assessments of risks and issues that have a current or potential nexus to VA’s COVID-19 planning, preparedness and response. These capabilities form the basis of the SaaS requirements and must be scaled in a phased, sequential process based on customer demands, enabling the integration of enterprise data for use by VHA and OEI decision-makers…”
