Notice ID: 36C10B22Q0002
Requirement:
“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has maintained a continuous award of Enterprise Agreements for Microsoft products since 1998. The various Microsoft licenses and subscriptions are required to provide VA employees with a broad range of IT capabilities necessary to meet agency mission needs for over 600,000 users. The current Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) provides the VA with 1) software assurance, 2) core support services, 3) operational support, 4) additional licenses and is slated to be renegotiated in 2022. Before renewal of this multiyear agreement, VA performed a re-baselining of requirements as well as analysis of alternatives to determine the best path forward to maximize enterprise level functionalities and cost efficiencies across the VA.”
“VA seeks to identify competitive products and strategies that could be implemented as alternatives to the current Microsoft technologies identified herein. This effort does not indicate VA will move to an alternate technology but only that VA is investigating viability, costs, and impacts associated with specific alternate technologies. To be clear, VA is not seeking proposals but only identification of alternate products, impacts, and market trends.”
“VA desires identification of enterprise proven alternate products that have been demonstrated to operate at a similar level of size, scope, and complexity of the current VA environment…”
