2024.03.04 Combined Q & A.xlsx
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- TRANSCOM CLOUD OPTIMAL DEVSECOPS ECOSYSTEM (TCODE) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) Federal contract opportunity
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- TRANSCOM24D003TCODE
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This document is a set of questions and answers related to a Request for Information (RFI) for the TRANSCOM CLOUD OPTIMAL DEVSECOPS ECOSYSTEM (TCODE) contract opportunity. The key details are:
The RFI is for market research to help determine the acquisition strategy for a DevSecOps platform-as-a-service contract to be hosted in the AWS GovCloud and leveraging the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Platform initiative. The platform will support a minimum of 14 tenant applications with 10,000 to 100,000 users total. The current implementation utilizes CloudOne, Iron Bank, and Platform One services. The contract will likely require a Secret-level security clearance and involve close collaboration between the contractor and tenant application teams for migration, refactoring, and deployment. Respondents are encouraged to ask clarifying questions during one-on-one sessions, as the Q&A document does not address all technical details related to the Performance Work Statement. This RFI is for market research purposes, and eligibility for the subsequent solicitation is not contingent on responding to the RFI.
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Other files for this federal contract opportunity
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| 20240301_TCODE RFI AMD 02.pdf | ||
| 2024.02.23_ TCODE PWS AMD 02.pdf | ||
| 20240215_TCODE PWS Draft-Track Change Add to Section 1.3 Scope.pdf | ||
| 20240215_TCODE RFI FINAL to increase the page number-.pdf | ||
| 20240123_TCODE PWS Draft.docx | DOCX document | |
| 20240212_TCODE RFI FINAL.pdf |
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Sheet1
| TRANSCOM24D003 TCODE RFI Q&A | ||
| # | Questions | Answers |
| 1 | What is the anticipated contract type? | The Government is in the Market Research Phase and an acquisition strategy has not been determined. |
| 2 | In reference to RFI 3.5, B.x.6, what are "the following areas" referenced in this question? | Language revised. |
| 3 | Per RFI 3, given the requirement to provide detailed responses (but staying within 10 pages), we request the page limit be increased to 20 pages to accommodate a detailed response for all the information requested as part of this RFI (to include addressing 3.4 and 3.5). | The questions were revised and the page limit was increased to 15. |
| 4 | Will you accept any vendor software products as part of the response? Or are we limited to solutions only with the listed technical infrastructure baseline (IronBank, Cloud One, Platform One)? | Ironbank, CloudOne, Platform One are not software products. We seek to maximize the utilization of those 3 services when satisfying TCODE’s capability set. However, we are not constrained to ONLY using software products and software services from those 3 sources. |
| 6 | What is the highest level of security required to execute this contract, secret? | Secret |
| 7 | Will the team who executes this contract have a close working relationship with the application tenant teams and be able to work in a partnership to migrate, refactor and deploy apps? (i.e., architects, developers) | Yes, please see Task Area 7: Tenant Application Migration Planning, Collaboration, and Onboarding and Task Area 8: Tenant Application Migration as a Service (OPTIONAL) |
| 8 | Where in the development lifecycle are the tenant applications? How big are they? How many are there? What Technologies are they leveraging? ( Languages) | The TCODE platform is expected to host a minimum of 14 tenant applications. The total number of unique end users across all tenant applications ranges between 10k and 100K. The Contractor shall support pipelines, onboarding, and sustainment for the tenants. The Contractor shall strategize tenant application onboarding and align onboarding with the team’s capacity and program’s roadmap. Java is the most popular language. |
| 9 | What is the level of adoption and maturity of the current platform and hosted applications? Number of tenant teams and users (in dev/stagging/production)? | There are 3 tenant teams in dev/staging. None in production. We anticipate to have 3 in production by the end of FY24 and ~9 more applications in dev/staging. |
| 10 | What are the current SLO/SLA? | See PWS 2.3.6.1 Service Desk Support |
| 11 | Are there ATOs in place for the current components of the platform? | Yes |
| 12 | Will be integrated into teams that already include government employees and contractors or will we be a stand alone entity, reporting to a government POC, as it pertains to this effort? | The Contractor bears primary responsibility for the tasks specified within the PWS. The Government will, at its discretion, supplement the Contractor team with Government personnel. |
| 13 | In response to this RFI, are you interested in approaches that meet the intent of the requirements through modern software delivery and team management practices, or do all responses need to be to the letter of the requirements and approaches and technologies as listed? | Please provide a response as specified in the RFI. |
| 15 | Has TCODE implemented Big Bang within the Cloud One environment or are they leveraging the Platform One Party Bus? Which core & add-on packages are included in the TCODE implementation? | Please see Task Area 3. |
| 16 | Do the application landing zones (Test & Production) that support the TCODE DevSecOps pipelines currently reside in Cloud One or another cloud environment. | CloudOne. |
| 37 | Will the entities that respond to the RFI be the only vendors considered eligible to receive and respond to the RFP? | No. The RFI is for Market Research purposes and will help drive the Government’s acquisition strategy. However, eligibility for a subsequent solicitation is not contingent upon a response to an RFI. |
| 38 | How does one schedule a one-on-one? | Please refer to the SAM.GOV posting which includes the RFI attachment and refer to section 1.4 RFI One-on One Information |
| 41 | Also, is there anything available so that those providing a ROM can gauge the quantitative nature of the requirement for the ROM; such as, how many customers, how many software factories, how many onboardings per month, how many tickets, size of the current environment in Ec2 Instances, how many K8s clusters, pipelines, AWS services used, what K8s technology is being used, fully managed EKS control plane, or something else, etc? | See revised PWS. |
| Note:technical questions related to the PWS, technical data, supplemental information and suggestions to improve a subsequent solicitation may not be addressed in this response. These answers are limited to supporting a response to capability for Market Research phase. Repondents are encouraged to ask clarifying questions in one-on-one sessions. |
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