Attach001-FMS-ACES RFI - Questions.pdf

1. Preferred Solution

a) Describe your preferred solution (e.g., COTS, GOTS, ERP, new build, hybrid, low code / no code, etc.) to meet the requirements

(see Attach006-FMS-ACES RFI - Requirements Master List.xlsx) and your rationale for selecting this solution. Address the following for your preferred solution:

b) Software bill of materials

c) Licensing requirements for hosting, software, and end users

d) Ability to support the creation, management, addition, and implementation of business rules

e) Data model(s)

f) Level of customization of components or custom code required

g) Degree of complexity.

h) Ability to support vertical and/or horizontal scalability and autoscaling.

i) Ease of maintenance and upgrade of libraries

j) Intellectual property rights constraints and data rights

Response should not exceed 4 pages.

3. Cloud Hosting and Cybersecurity

a) Describe the cloud hosting services required to support your preferred solution.

b) Describe how your preferred solution meets and maintains

FedRAMP Certification for an IL4 environment.

c) Describe how your preferred solution achieves and maintains a

Continuous Authority to Operate (cATO).

d) Describe how your preferred solution incorporates automated testing, performance standards, and reduces security vulnerabilities.

e) Describe how your preferred solution leverages cloud capabilities while remaining cloud agnostic, optimizes performance, and reduces total cost of ownership.

Response should not exceed 2 pages.

2. Approach, Data, and Innovation

a) Describe your Agile approach for delivering your preferred solution and how you will implement DevSecOps in your process.

b) Describe the CI/CD pipeline tools and the environments required to implement your preferred solution.

c) Describe how your preferred solution supports automation of processes and workflow data entry and validation.

d) Describe how your preferred solution ensures data protection, continued data access, and storage availability.

e) Describe how your preferred solution supports the migration (ETL) of “active” data into the new solution, and “inactive” data to a data store that is viewable, searchable, and printed in a specified format.

f) Describe how your preferred solution supports innovation in the future.

g) Describe how your preferred solution supports the addition of enhancements.

Response should not exceed 3 pages.

4. Requirements Clarity and Viability

a) Provide your assessment of the requirements by completing the provided Requirements template (see Attach003-FMS-ACES RFI

- Requirements Feedback Template.xlsx). Includes:

1. Identifying any requirements that are deemed ambiguous and not achievable, providing rationale, and recommending a means to disposition (e.g., delete, restate).

2. Identifying any requirements that are deemed to restrict/constrain the solution.

b) State whether or not you can develop an operational solution from these requirements. Provide rationale as to why or why not and note if there are any gaps.

c) Describe any technical dependencies, constraints, and limitations to deliver a solution that meets the defined requirements.

Response should not exceed 1 page.

Note: When answering the focus areas below, please address from the perspective of your preferred solution and/or process(es) vice past performance / demonstrated experience.

Foreign Military Sales – Army Case Execution System (FMS-ACES)

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7. Sustainment Approach

a) Describe the sustainment model that best supports your preferred solution, to include vendor responsibilities, Government responsibilities, and joint responsibilities for each activity within the model (e.g., system maintenance, help desk, recurring testing, recurring training, cybersecurity).

b) Describe the online/embedded help model that best supports your preferred solution.

Response should not exceed 2 pages.

6. Cost, Schedule, and Performance

a) Provide a rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimate by completing the provided Cost ROM template (see Attach004-

FMS-ACES RFI - Cost ROM Template.xlsx).

b) Provide your schedule for developing and deploying a solution that meets the requirements by completing the provided

Schedule template (see Attach005-FMS-ACES RFI - Schedule

Template.xlsx).

c) Describe your cost methodology used to derive your ROM provided in response to a) above.

d) Provide a list of metrics / measures for a Service Level

Agreement to ensure continued and stable performance / operations.

e) Describe what you deem to be major cost, schedule, and performance drivers, to include supporting rationale.

f) Describe what you deem to be major cost, schedule, and performance risks, to include supporting rationale.

Response should not exceed 2 pages.

8. Contract Considerations

a) Describe the contract type(s) deemed most appropriate to deliver an FMS-ACES solution, to include supporting rationale.

b) Describe the contract type(s) that would present any concerns or introduce any factors that would influence your willingness to compete, to include rationale for each concern.

c) Describe any recommended fee structure to be considered to provide the contractor the most incentive to meet all requirements within cost and schedule, to include supporting rationale.

d) Describe evaluation criteria for the Government to consider as discriminators based on this RFI, to include rationale for each.

Response should not exceed 2 pages.

5. User Experience Approach

a) Describe how your preferred solution supports a graphically rich user interface that supports FMS business processes and terminology and provides Common Operating Picture dashboards.

b) Describe how your preferred solution supports user interaction with data queries, extraction, and export.

c) Describe how your preferred solution supports a Roles and

Permission Hierarchy that provides role-based access control to workflows and data.

Response should not exceed 2 pages.

Note: When answering the focus areas below, please address from the perspective of your preferred solution and/or process(es) vice past performance / demonstrated experience.

Foreign Military Sales – Army Case Execution System (FMS-ACES)

Attachment 001 – FMS-ACES RFI Questions