Related Notice RFQ1525229
We encourage all parties who are interested in participating in the Ascend BPA acquisition to response to the attached MRAS RFI link and also review the attached draft PWS and provide questions, comments and recommended answer/solution rationale on the attached Table 1 – Ascend BPA Draft PWS Questions/Comments/Recommended Answer/Solution and Rationale Spreadsheet by not later than 5:00 pm EST on 08/08/2022…
- Objectives
The objective of this BPA is to provide a streamlined method for government agencies to acquire and implement secure, integrated commercial cloud service solutions, including cloud focused labor services through the award of a BPA in accordance with FAR 8.4. These services will be epitomized by driving towards the delivery of quality services within rapid time frames, utilization of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Anything as a Services (XaaS) and related cloud Information Technology (IT) professional services to create an “open-source”-like experience. This will enable full data accessibility, ownership, and portability for the government and facilitates a government model for the reuse of common applications that would function across multiple agencies.
To achieve this goal, industry partners must be able to implement secure cloud service solutions utilizing zero trust architecture cybersecurity baselines that leverage Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) agile processes that achieve results through continuous capability enhancements, minimal downtime, prompt response to emerging needs, demonstrated reliability and availability, and optimized performance with minimized resource utilization.
- Scope
The scope of the BPA is further broken down into the following independent primary pools with respective independent sub-pools as identified by the Government. Future capability offerings and/or emerging technologies within the defined scope of the overall Pool structure requirements will be assessed for on-ramping under new sub-pool(s). BPA Task Orders (TOs) can be placed under one or all pools as necessary for the services required.
Pool 1: IaaS and PaaS
Consists of awardees that provide commercial cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (IaaS, PaaS) solutions.
- Sub-Pool 1-1: Unclassified Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a 56 Service (PaaS) Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs)
- Sub-Pool 1-2: Classified Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service 59 (PaaS) Cloud Service Offerings (CSOs)
- Sub-Pool 1-X: Additional sub-pools will be defined based upon government requirements.
Pool 2: SaaS (TBD, will be added at a later date and time via the onboarding process)
Will consist of awardees that provide Government identified Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.
- Sub-Pool 2-X: Additional sub-pools will be defined based upon government requirements.
Pool 3: Cloud IT Professional Services – (TBD, will be added at a later date and time via the onboarding process)
Will consist of awardees that provide cloud professional services that support the adoption of migration to, governance of, or management of commercial cloud computing solutions.
- Sub-Pool 3-X: Additional sub-pools will be defined based upon government 79 requirements.
