Notice ID: 36C10A21Q0017
This is a Request for Information (RFI) to conduct market research to determine the availability of vendors capable of providing the requirement for VHA Geographic Information System (GIS) Healthcare Enterprise Service and Support (VHA-GHESS). The Department of Veterans Affairs has a requirement for GHESS.
The required enterprise agreement (EA), referred to as VHA-GHESS, will supply GIS products (software, data, services, and support) for GIS applications and services for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), where the Chief Strategy Office will lead the procurement of the VHA-GHESS.
The requirement of this acquisition is to combine the work of the previous 10P offices supported by the 2015 – 2020 GHESS agreement with the work being done across VHA, while considering the key areas of growth and impact that directly align with VHA’s mission and strategic priorities. The VHA-GHESS will ensure best practices in system and services optimization, and consistency in spatial data and information products that will allow for improved coordination of services and reduced costs to VHA in both short and long term.
The required enterprise agreement (EA), referred to as VHA-GHESS, will supply GIS products (software, data, services, and support) for GIS applications and services for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), where the Chief Strategy Office will lead the procurement of the VHA-GHESS.
The contractor shall provide twelve (12) licenses for a data interoperability extension or tool (software). Data Interoperability will provide solutions for complex data integrations. Users can design data movement among hundreds of systems and apps using a visual programming interface and automate the no-code transformation of data across the boundaries of geography, format, storage technology, and connectivity within a familiar GIS geoprocessing environment.
3) The contractor shall provide three (3) concurrent use desktop licenses for software extensions or tools that can extract geographic information from unstructured data, including messages, reports, briefings, and even social media. The extension allows users to discover and map data from Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe PDF, XML, HTML, text files, and more…
