Notice ID: 36C10B24Q0105
Description:
The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Software Product Management (SPM) is to provide Product Line Management, oversight and overall leadership to software development projects, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) implementations. In meeting these goals, OIT strives to provide high quality, effective, and efficient Information Technology (IT) services to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of-care as well as throughout all the points of the Veterans’ journey in an effective, timely, and compassionate manner. VA depends on Information Management/Information Technology systems to meet mission goals.
The Contractor shall provide shippable product, operations support, and security compliance for the CC Sub-Product Lines under the CCPL. A shippable product is defined as one that has been deployed to a production-like environment, validated through testing, monitored for resiliency, and determined to be operable and available for customers. This support includes all development, testing, integration, architecture (with concurrence from enterprise and product line architecture), refactoring as needed, deployment activities, and all operations and maintenance support activities to include predictive, preventative, corrective, and evolutionary through a cycle of Continuous Integration. To do this, the Contractor shall utilize DevSecOps principles and SAFe practices in partnership with VA. The Contractor shall provide cross-functional, Agile teams of varying size to build and maintain a platform with capabilities to streamline systems, improve scalability, increase availability and reliability of services, and more accurately measure investments in terms of business value while enabling more efficient delivery. The Agile team(s) shall work to strengthen the CCPL by meeting and continuing to exceed Product Line Management maturity guidelines and DevSecOps and SAFe methodologies. These guidelines are evolving and subject to change as maturity develops within VA.
