Notice ID: 36C10B22Q0336
“Forms and Publications (FP) Orders is a legacy mainframe application hosted at a VA datacenter. This application is used enterprise-wide by approximately 500 end users to requisition items for their locations, including: paper forms, publications, Veteran burial flags, and gun locks (in support of the VA’s Suicide Prevention program). FP Orders contains over one thousand orderable items. The Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics (OPAL) Service Distribution Center (SDC) uses the application to process and track the requisition requests and uses various system reports to conduct inventory management functions to ensure adequate stock is on hand to fulfill all requests.”
“Due to the age and complexity of the application, it is difficult to support and maintain. VA is interested in replacing this legacy mainframe application with a modern solution compliant with VA policy and capable of meeting the needs of end users and the OPAL order fulfillment organization.”
“System Requirements: The following system requirements are deemed mandatory unless otherwise noted:
Requisition Management:
The system shall:
- Provide end users the ability to browse, search, and select items to requisition.
- Allow requisitioners to modify requisitions before items are shipped.
- Provide notification to requisitioner when an order status changes.
- Provide notification to the requisitioner when an order has shipped.
- Provide detailed information about the shipment of inventory to the requisitioners, including shipping method, who is to receive shipment, and shipping tracking numbers.
- Provide end users ability to review all historical requisition data.
- Capture the requisitioner and recipient location data for each requisition.
Inventory Management: The system shall:
- Maintain a list of inventory items and manage receipt of inventory items:
- Provide a standardized receiving process to handle a shipment when it arrives. This process shall be capable of being individualized to each warehouse or product type.
- Track receipt of stock and returns into a warehouse facility.
- Track where products are stocked, which suppliers they come from, and the length of time they are stored…”
