IRS EA 4365 Cloud Architecture and Design RFI Questions.pdf

IRS-EA-4365 Questions

1. Describe briefly the capabilities of your company and the nature of services provided.

Include a description of your staff composition and management structure.

2. Detail how your company will bring industry best practices, lessons learned, and innovative solutions to address IRS’s cloud architecture and design support needs.

3. Identify any relevant GSA, NASA SEWP, and/or other GWAC contracts for which your company holds.

4. State whether the NAICS & PSC Codes identified in this announcement are appropriate for the requirement. If not, recommend more appropriate NAICS & PSC.

5. Describe your organization's experience in collaborating with development, engineering, and architecture group across multiple stakeholders to aid in the integration of technology solutions related to common enterprise services, platforms, and application domains.

6. Describe your organization’s experience with the design and implementation of common enterprise services, API infrastructure, and event driven architecture architectural frameworks.

7. Tell us about your organization's experience with developing technical solutions for government compliance requirements. How did you identify common patterns and incorporate them in the cloud architecture and design?

8. Are there any emerging trends or technologies in cloud architecture that the IRS should be aware of, and how can we incorporate them into our procurement strategies?

9. Demonstrate your company’s familiarity with and ability to adhere to IRS security, data privacy, and disclosure requirements, including applicable Federal standards, such as

FISMA.

10. Please provide any recommendations that the IRS might consider overcoming any pain points in business processes, either for your company or as a general recommendation to accomplish IRS enterprise cloud architecture goals and / or become more aligned with commercial business processes (consider streamlining, terms and conditions, asset management, software license compliance enforcement, onerous process elimination, etc.).

11. Describe the breadth and depth of your organization’s expertise with using Software AG's Alfabet and ARIS products as well as applying leading architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and standards (e.g., ArchiMate) to deliver architecture artifacts at other public sector agencies or private sector customers of similar scope and size as IRS.

12. Explain how your company helped other public sector agencies or private sector customers of similar scope and size as IRS to create, maintain, use, and customize application architecture patterns to accelerate delivery of architecture and design artifacts?

13. Explain how your company advised public sector agencies or private sector customers of similar scope and size as IRS to apply method(s) and framework(s) as well as technical and functional criteria to select the most cost-effective location(s) for hosting application components in off-premises and/or on-premises environments?

14. Explain how your company helped other public sector agencies or private sector customers of similar scope and size as IRS to optimize reuse of existing on-premises and/or off-premises tools, platforms, and/or cloud service offerings in a hybrid multi-cloud environment to achieve the organization’s business and IT goals/objectives?

15. Explain how your company helped other public sector agencies of similar scope and size as IRS to architect and design solutions for implementing Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 security capability requirements and zero trust architecture guidelines?

16. Explain how your company helped other public sector agencies or private sector customers on previous projects similar in scope and complexity to architect and design centralized performance monitoring, dashboarding, and automated event/incident remediation workflow capabilities to achieve the organization’s service level, recovery time, and recovery point objectives?

17. Explain how your company helped other public sector agencies and/or private sector customers on previous projects similar in scope and complexity to process demands, automate demand management workflows across various platforms, monitor/track demands, and report progress to stakeholders on a continuous basis?

18. From an industry standpoint, what are the most significant challenges for Cloud Architecture services, and how can they be addressed?

19. Please provide any additional insight or recommendations which will add value to our market research objectives related to strategy for Cloud Design, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Migration, and Cloud Security.

20. Provide comments, or recommendation regarding the draft PWS. *Please be sure to reference the PWS page number and section title, corresponding to the PWS that relates to your question and or comment.