RFI - Sources Sought_GNMA Consolidated Cloud Services.pdf

Department of Housing and Urban Development Government National Mortgage Association

Ginnie Mae

Sources Sought Notice

December 10, 2025

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Sources Sought Notice

Ginnie Mae Consolidated Cloud Services

Sources Sought Synopsis The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is issuing this source sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for a contractor to provide cloud services, cloud financial operations, expansion of cloud services on a consumption basis, and other Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) provided enterprise support services supporting modernization, compliance and current business operations. This will include working with OEM cloud providers, current vendors, contractors and service provider organizations. Areas of support include providing cloud services, cost analysis for cloud solutions (Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Data as a Service (DaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) etc.), expansion of existing cloud services, enterprise support services from the OEM cloud provider allowing and delivering greater value, availability and support to customers and partners. The Contractor must be able to provide cloud services from multiple OEM providers, Federal Schedules and open market.

Market research will include validation that the potential providers meet cloud certification requirements to include Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier, Microsoft Solutions Partner and Google Premier Partner.

The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 518210 for Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. The applicable Product Services Codes (PSC) assigned are DB10 – IT and Telecom, Compute As A Service; DC10 - IT and Telecom - Data Center As A Service; DG10 - IT and Telecom - Network As A Service; DH10 - IT and Telecom - Platform As A Service; and DK10 - IT and Telecom - Storage As A Service.

This requirement seeks only Contractors holding the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) IT Cloud SIN 518210C, however, the contractor may utilize other SINs in order to propose a complete solution.

There is no solicitation at this time. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred.

If your organization has the capability and capacity to perform the services described in the notice, you are requested to provide the information and responses identified below. Capability Statements will not be accepted or evaluated for this Sources Sought Notice. Only responses that directly address the requested information will be considered. Vendors that respond to this Sources Sought Notice will be included on the distribution list and will receive the solicitation once released.

The following information must be included in your response for consideration:

1. Provide organization name, address, email address, website address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization.

2. Identify all relevant partnerships your organization holds with AWS, Microsoft, and Google.

Specify the partnership tier or level for each (e.g., AWS Advanced/ Premier Partner, Microsoft Solutions Partner designations, Google Cloud Partner levels).

3. Indicate whether your company holds the GSA MAS Information Technology – Cloud SIN 518210C. Include contract number(s), if applicable.

4. Describe your organization’s experience implementing, managing, and supporting FINOPS practices. Include specific tools, methodologies, or frameworks used, as well as any certifications held by your team.

5. Identify the cloud platforms in which you specialize and specify which services or platforms you resell, manage, or support.

6. Provide your standard methodology for transitioning or migrating customer master payer accounts.

7. State how long your firm has been providing these specific services. Provide case studies, project summaries, or client references, preferably from organizations of similar size, industry, or mission needs.

8. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

9. Provide comments, recommendations, or questions regarding the draft PWS, if applicable.

The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to 1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; and 3) implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of personnel and risk mitigation.

Based on the responses to this Sources Sought Notice/market research, this requirement may be further set aside for any of the socio-economic programs, or set-aside for small business competition, or procured through full and open competition, or procured through GSA.

Interested potential offerors must clearly specify the following: their Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), business size applicable to NAICS, socioeconomic business category, GSA contract number (if applicable), and any other applicable GWAC number. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

Additional information on the required services is listed below and in Attachment A – Performance Work Statement (PWS). Please be advised that the attached PWS is a DRAFT of the anticipated required services to be provided and performed.

Background:

Modernization of Ginnie Mae’s proprietary systems and securitization platform includes the continuation and timely implementation or enhancement of major business applications, and other MBS services related to delivering new securitization products and application infrastructure. These major IT initiatives are critical, highly specialized, and necessary to support Ginnie Mae’s role in supporting the housing market and economic recovery.

Ginnie Mae has completed its multi-year migration of its legacy applications into a cloud native/centric environment and continues to modernize the legacy platforms. The core foundation of the Ginnie Mae software development, operational infrastructure and business systems exist in the Amazon Web Services (AWS), Government Cloud Environments (GovCloud) East and West regions. Ginnie Mae has built and is currently operating 9 major Business Systems and 1 General Support System (GSS) that support over 100 mission critical applications, subsystems, web services systems, tools, Proof of Concept, and software development initiatives that are primarily hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud environments and integrated across multiple cloud vendors that are designed to leverage orchestrated provisioning capabilities offered by the Cloud providers. As reference Ginnie Mae also leverages services from Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Appian Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

The AWS cloud services are currently provided through Ginnie Mae’s IT Infrastructure Dedicated Cloud Services contract that provides the operational and security labor and cloud services through one contract. This contract does not allow for cloud services consumption on a pay as you go basis, which would enable Ginnie Mae the ability of only paying for actual services consumed. This is an industry best practice because it promotes cost efficiency and supports technological innovation that is required to meet the requirements of the organization.

Additionally, the current contract model does not align with the recommended best practices for the procurement of cloud services and the separation from cloud related IT professional services (labor) associated with operating and maintaining the cloud environment.

General Description of Work:

The contractor will provide cloud services for Ginnie Mae wide cloud environment that accomplish the following:

o Transition of the existing cloud services accounts into one payer account owned by Ginnie Mae.

o Under one payer account owned by Ginnie Mae, a multi-tenant cloud environment will exist in AWS East-West Commercial and/or Government Cloud. Ginnie Mae expects to authorize business systems at the ‘moderate’ and/or ‘low’ FISMA security categorization level to be housed in cloud environments with a mix of low, moderate and/or high controls.

o Under the same payer account owned by Ginnie Mae, a multi-tenant cloud environment will exist in AWS Government Cloud environments, and associated (or linked) to the commercial account.

o Ginnie Mae expects to implement and integrate cloud services with other major Cloud Service Providers to include (but not limited to) Microsoft, Google, and other major cloud service offerings.

o Ginnie Mae requires the ability to manage and optimize cloud service costs while ensuring that the agency maintains cloud service mobility, agility, and performance.

o Achieve cost transparency by understanding cloud service costs by business function and associated business system/application.

o Promote cloud service budgeting and forecasting by tracking spending and forcasting future cloud service usage and associated costs.

Contemplated Performance Metrics:

See Attachment A - Performance Work Statement

Contemplated Report Requirements:

See Attachment A - Performance Work Statement

Contemplated Dollar Value of the Project:

N/A

Contemplated Place of Performance:

See Attachment A - Performance Work Statement

Submission Instructions: Interested firms that consider themselves qualified and capable of performing the above-listed services are requested to provide a response to this Sources Sought Notice by December 31, 2025 @ 2:00 PM EST. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice shall be emailed to:

SUBJECT LINE: Source Sought - Ginnie Mae Consolidated Cloud Services

POC: Maria Guercio, Contract Specialist at Maria.C.Guercio@hud.gov and Cheri Redding, Contracting Officer at Cheri.L.Redding@hud.gov.