Vendor Questions (Sets 4-7).xlsx
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| Vendor # | Question # | Question | Reply |
| 4 | 1 | RFI, technical objective # 8 states: “Proves current EDW mission support can be quickly migrated at an acceptable cost within one year.“ What is the nature of the ”current EDW mission support“ being referenced? | Providing (# of reports) reports from data repositories to mission users. |
| 4 | 2 | RFI, technical objective #11 states: “Can be operated and scaled at a cost that is indicative of being superior to that of the current EDW approach and cost model”. What is the current EDW cost model? | At this time we are not looking for proposals but the elements of costs to support the EVV concept. And to better understand dimensions of costs which should be investigated in an RFP should one be released. |
| 4 | 3 | Is USACE looking for vendors responding to this RFI to address the modernization of the 5 “strategic systems” referenced in RFI main instructions, Background #2: CEFMS, P2, RMS, Army REMIS, and RFMIS? Or is that a separate programmatic effort? | It is a seperate programatic effort however, the EVV will be integrating with those initiatives. |
| 4 | 4 | RFI deliverables requires vendors to address the “Gross estimation of the time required to implement the articulated concept” and “the type and magnitude of resources required to construct and operate the EVV as described or inclusive of the changes proposed by the vendor.” Are these to be addressed in reference to the 30 day proof of concept, or the full displacement of EDW in FY21? | Both. USACE is looking for the vendors understanding on the timing feasability outlined in the RFI. |
| 4 | 5 | RFI Attachment 1: RFI Attachment 1 references ‘business case and budget development for FY21 budget submission’. Does the Government have a budget range in mind for FY21 budget submission? | Purpose of the RFI is to better understand the complexity and cost of implementing the EVV capability. Results of the RFI will be taken into consideration in the establishment of the budget. |
| 5 | 1 | Do EVV stakeholders have a preference for either existing tools migrations to cloud as opposed to using cloud native services? A quicker approach for “Lift and Shift” would migrate current on-premise BI, business dictionary, data catalog tools into the cloud, but this may not integrate well or quick enough with cloud EDW, and could carry over current technical debt into the cloud. Many cloud projects fail to deliver value due to such poorly planned migrations. On the other hand, a full migration using cloud native services for the capabilities mentioned above will have better integration with respect to the data pipeline, performance and security but at a higher migration costs for existing reports and data pipeline. USmax suggests the later approach of using cloud native services for longer term operational excellence, performance, reliability, security and cost optimization. Using a cloud native services approach, we would recommend a phased implementation to minimize disruptions, and that would keep both the existing EDW and cloud EDW running in parallel, utill full migration is achieved. Our question is intended to understand EVV stakeholder preference in this respect. | No decision at this time - all options will be considered. Such a decision will be based on proposed alternative tools. |
| 5 | 2 | What types of unstructured data need to be supported? Different types of data may need different cloud service to process them. For example, some unstructured data can be converted into semi-structured or fully structured data and can use technologies within EDW to process them. Some unstructured data will need Big Data cloud services beyond the EDW capability to be used in parallel with EDW. Our question is intended to better understand the scope and outcomes of unstructured data processing. | USACE is interested in all supported unstructured data types. Please provide information of what is believed to be possible and what would be recommended. |
| 6 | 1 | In reference to Vendor 2, Question 2: Please confirm the capability statement is in response to the original RFI’s list of objectives per the RFI’s Deliverables section, technical approach? | The question is not clear -- please provide clarification. |
| 6 | 2 | In reference to Vendor 2, Question 2: The original RFI includes a section on avoidance of non-personal services mentioning to refrain from discussing "skills levels and hours, salaries, cost and funding data”. Please confirm we should only provide a gross estimation of the time required to implement the articulated concept with magnitude of resources to construct and operate EVV per the RFI Deliverables section rather than a ROM Cost Estimate. | Yes -- just a gross order of magnitude estimation is requested. |
| 7 | 1 | How much data? How big is the data? (Production/Development/COOP) | Data from the big 5 and the EDW (Sherry) |
| 7 | 2 | So long as the software is still Oracle 12c, IBM Netezza, Business Objects, Apache Tomcat does it matter the platform? | All options will be considered. |
| 7 | 3 | What is the expected IOPS per system? (number of read and write operations per second) | No determination at this time -- open to vendor recommendations. |
| 7 | 4 | RPO (Recovery Point Objective) - How much data can you afford to lose during outages, testing and replication? | Our objective is none. |
| 7 | 5 | RTO (Recovery Time Objective) - How much time can you afford to lose during outages, testing and replication? | Request vendor recommendations on reasonable objective. |
| 7 | 6 | Number of transactions per environment? | Not prepared to answer at this time. |
| 7 | 7 | How often does the data change/update? | Objective of the EVV is near real-time updates. |
| 7 | 8 | As you stated the solution is expected to access multiple clouds, which cloud solutions must we connect to? | Minimum connectors required (Azure, Amazon (AWS), Oracle, Google) |
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