The purpose of the FDA’s CTP IT System Lifecycle Development and Management Support Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) is to issue individual orders to meet the FDA CTP IT system business objectives, constraints, applicable scope and task areas and acquire the full range of technical and management services necessary to develop, maintain, and enhance existing and to-be-determined CTP systems in support of all programs administered by CTP.
Through this BPA, the Government seeks to achieve the following objectives:
- Maintenance of CTP systems in a continued state of readiness that ensures access, reliability, availability, and usability to current and new users through continued support and enhancement to the CTP IT applications
- Positioning of the FDA to meet changes in user needs for systems and data management, deployment strategies, and requirements of the stakeholders of CTP IT applications
- Verification of quality and code reusability through repeatable, managed processes equivalent to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)® Maturity Level 2 or 3
- Development of new systems and major enhancements using…
The scope of this contract is to acquire the full range of technical and management services necessary to develop, maintain and enhance existing and to-be-determined CTP systems in support of all programs administered by CTP.
Contractors under this BPA will provide development services support to the Information and Technology Staff (ITS) within the Center for Tobacco Products’ (CTP) Office of Management (OM). Software and services developed under CTP’s IT Systems Lifecycle Development and Management Support BPA shall assist CTP in the support of the regulatory and public health goals and objectives of CTP.
The Contractor shall work within established FDA guidelines and standards. All applicable software activities performed under this contract shall be in accordance with FDA’s Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) policies, processes, and templates, which include both waterfall and agile methodologies. An explanation of the FDA’s implementation of the EPLC can be found in Attachment 4 – EPLC Agile Methodology Overview for Contractors…
