Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) cloud services

The Government is looking for Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) cloud services offerings that meet the minimum specifications listed below.

The Minimum Specifications are:

• Intelligent Business Process Management Suite capabilities
• Purpose of the tool is to easily build Process and Workflows. MUST have great capabilities surrounding Process Management, Service Orchestration, etc.
• Continuous upgrades included – designed business process model doesn’t change, but Tech/UX is modernized automatically by platform upgrade
• Business Process Model based. Business Process Automation focused.
• Visual Model and Process design capabilities AND backed by a written code model (Layouts, flows, declarative syntax)
• Runtime web must work on NMCI gold-disk browser
• Development must work on NMCI/Legacy/DREN networks/browser(s) – 0 footprint capability
• No-admin developer capability
• There MUST be exceptional integrated DevOps/DevSecOps support that is compatible with our existing infrastructure. This should be out-of-the-box integrations, included, or extremely simple to set up (plug-in, included secure marketplace, etc)
• Integrated Automated Unit Testing
• Automated deployment of platform capable
• Automated deployment of app capable
• Integrated CI/CD pipeline
• Integrated security compliance checking, quality checking, code review/PR
• IL5 Cloud instance
• On-prem capable
• Containerization capable (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Enterprise scalable – out of the box
• High availability features – out of the box
• Platform independent
• Cloud Agnostic
• Database agnostic
• Comprehensive and available Security Certifications/Audits/Documentation (required for ATO and RMF reciprocity)
• Simple Product Catalog Licensing structure (complex catalogs are too difficult for developers/managers to piecemeal and track usage. We are looking for simple licensing. All (most) products included, Unlimited usage, etc)
• Stability – product needs to already be used other places in government, have a history, and going to be able to be around for the next 20 years
• Enterprise-ready low-code/no-code platform
• Out of the box CRM
• Out of the box Customer Engagement Center
• Out of the box Case Management suite – fully customizable
• Multiexperience Development Platform – single app enables Web, tablet, mobile – Progressive Web App, SPAs (Single Page Apps)/Microapps – APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) automatically generated based on service/data/workflow, event/messaging. Chatbots (model/process-driven – NOT AI-driven)
• The Developer Experience must be exceptional with integrated ALM, Version Control. Need a good focus on the “citizen developer” as we intend business users to design apps.
• High efficiency of developers vs. custom code
• Online on-demand, and virtual classroom led training must be available.
• Model-drivel - Create data entities and DB, APIs, Services, UI/UX auto generated based on relationships
• Platform must have very strong presence, # of customers, and support immediately available in USA (Ability for us to get support, train, find knowledgeable staff, continue to train new staff, etc)
• Customer Experience must be very good (we don’t have the luxury of working in a platform that is not immediately usable and the vendor is willing to work with us to make it a success)
• Must have strong Federal/DoD Government experience existing in the market (for the platform to be successful quickly, it must be proven in government and the vendor must know what they are doing)
• Out-of-the box or free/included Marketplace or government shared assets for Contract Management, Tech Data, Financial Visualizations, etc.

If you have an aPaaS offering that meets the minimum specifications listed above, please submit a no more than three- page Word document that addresses the suggested offering’s ability to meet the minimum specifications. Submission shall be sent via email to amy.rich@navy.mil no later than 5:00 pm ET on September 01, 2020.