RFP D12PS00041 - Revised Pg 9 - Amendment 3.pdf

RFP D12PS00041

REVISED with Amendment 0003 02/22/2012

3. Scope

The scope of the resulting contract will include all Cloud Computing and support services required to transition, deploy, operate, maintain, safeguard and manage an enterprise‐wide e‐ mail and collaboration environment as previously defined. Offerors shall provide a comprehensive management approach for managing software licenses for the development/production environments, end‐user licenses, and fielded application configurations.

The cloud computing environment must consist of a government community cloud (including United States federal, state, local and tribal entities), or private cloud. For legal jurisdiction implications regarding ensuring the adequate safeguarding of Government sensitive information, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), service provider information systems that access and store government data at rest must be located within the sole jurisdiction of the United States Federal Government (i.e., within the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, and/or the Virgin Islands). Also see paragraph F.2 “Place of Performance.”

Regardless of teaming arrangements, the Offeror and its subcontractors shall comply with all required laws, rules, regulations, and standards, and these laws, rules, regulations, and standards shall apply equally to all parties involved in any aspect of managing, hosting, delivering, maintaining and/or supporting the Cloud Services.

3.1 Period of Performance

The base period of performance is for one year from contract award with six, one‐year options.

4. Objectives

Interior seeks an integrated suite of cloud‐based email and collaboration services that increases employee productivity, fosters greater collaboration, and improves the Agency’s service to the American people.

4.1 Business Objectives

Replace the current email and collaboration environment with cloud‐based email and collaboration services that are integrated as seamlessly as possible via a single sign‐on and that improve business performance by providing DOI users with expanded and new capabilities reflecting current industry offerings including, but not limited to, the following:

Email, including calendar, task management, mobile device and webmail support

Support for journaling to the Agency’s chosen third party provider

Personal email archiving