DA01--Infrastructure Automation Technical Debt Reduction (IATDR) (VA-26-00026979)

The Department of Veterans Affairs Technology Acquisition Center intends to solicit a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside for Infrastructure Automation Technical Debt Reduction (IATDR) via NASA SEWP, with a target contract award before September 30, 2026. The RFI (solicitation 36C10B26Q0501) closed June 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET; this is a pre-solicitation notice for market research and acquisition planning only.

The VA seeks to establish an on-premises enterprise automation control plane standardizing and governing infrastructure automation across its hybrid environment spanning on-premises data centers, private cloud infrastructure, and VA Enterprise Cloud. The platform must support minimum 200 human users and unlimited non-human identities with high availability. The control plane will orchestrate automation across legacy virtualization platforms and container platforms while integrating with Microsoft Entra ID, HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, CyberArk, GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow, Splunk, and Dynatrace. Security classification is T4; the platform must achieve VA Technical Reference Model approval, meet VA Critical Security Controls, and obtain a VA ATO before production use.

The base period is 12 months from award with four optional 12-month extension periods not to exceed 60 months total. The VA will onboard minimum ten infrastructure teams per year with a planning ceiling of fifty teams across the full performance period. The contract will be firm-fixed-price with all software licensing and maintenance included. Performance occurs at VA on-premises data centers, private cloud infrastructure, and VA Enterprise Cloud environments. The NAICS code is 541519 (Other Computer Related Services); PSC is DA01. If AI systems are proposed, vendors must self-certify compliance with OMB Memorandum M-26-04 Unbiased AI Principles and provide transparency documentation.