Notice ID 36C10D22Q0020
- Background…
The Office of Business Integration (OBI) centralizes, consolidates, and integrates business architecture, investment needs and requirements in support of the VBA Lines of Business (LOBs) and Staff Offices (SOs). OBI coordinates with our Office of Information Technology (OIT) partners to manage systems and applications administering more than $123B in benefit payments, across the above-referenced seven (7) program areas.
VBA faces challenges in ensuring OIT systems are efficient, non-redundant, and support common integrated services to ensure data flows through the claims process efficiently. Business lines have historically approached systems development in a siloed manner leading to duplication of functionality, challenging modernizing, and reducing efficiencies. The VBA has several legacy systems which are prone to instability, limit enhancements, and are challenging to secure. The VBA systems currently do not support analytics to accommodate data mining, automation, and artificial intelligence. Future state systems planning should incorporate low operating costs, stability, and technological advances.
VBA’s responsibility of over $123B in payments is complex and will require risk mitigation recommendations for all transitions for each project, system, and application.
- Vision
To accomplish these objectives, VBA requires strategic, programmatic, and tactical business support for the lifecycle of its information technology (IT) investments. VBA requires support for the full planning and business execution of IT priorities throughout the IT lifecycle from investment business cases through requirements management to maximize returns on investment. By supporting development of key performance indicators, key results, benefit and impact statements to meet business goals. VBA also requires business architecture to support the functional model, business processes, and data flows. This effort shall include development of the business and enterprise architecture models to include the data flows and the mapping to systems/components that are used in the current and future business processes. The VBA requires the development of business requirements, determination of shared services that can be leveraged across multiple VBA business lines, including the data definitions and strategies to support all reporting and business objectives and outcomes.
The scope of this contract is to support achievement of these objectives. The Contractor will be responsible to develop the required deliverables (investment planning, architecture, requirements, and other related products) to meet these objectives. The Contractor shall be a dedicated partner that will span the full delivery lifecycle from strategy through execution with the tools, resources, and experience.
The Contractor shall include, but not limited to:
- Provide services to define and map efficient and stable business architecture
- Provide recommendations and support to plan and define requirements in support of VBA’s long-range plan and IT multi-year plan
- Provide solution design, analytics, and strategy management identifying solutions and to gaps within the Legacy systems
- Provide support for IT Investment Management activities, including business epics, customer engagement, intake of new business needs, management of non-architectural tools that captures data related to annual planning and prioritization, and other current fiscal year execution activities.
- Coordinate with National Cemetery Administration (NCA) and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to identify integration with and to leverage system capabilities and to promote interoperability across the organizations.
- Shall provide deliverables according to the DODAF and FEAF
- Provide support for the 6 architecture domains as defined by the VAEA reference model
- Provide recommendations, management, and planning of each major OIT deployment
- Ensure that no deliverables (Requirements, Business Epics, etc.) contain personally identifiable information (PII)Provide off site conferencing location within 50 miles of 1800 G. Street, Washington D.C, to provide meeting space as required in the PWS…”
