Request for Information (RFI) Defense Automatic Addressing System (DAAS) Modernized Message and Transaction Processing

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is seeking industry expertise to modernize its Defense Automatic Addressing System (DAAS), a critical logistics transaction processing platform that currently handles 9 billion annual transactions for 300,000 business partners worldwide. The RFI targets software vendors and system integrators to develop a comprehensive modernization strategy with an API-first approach, focusing on streamlining message and transaction processing capabilities. Key requirements include implementing a modernized processing platform with containerization strategies, event/service orchestration, and a unified ETL platform that can operate in a FedRAMP IL5 cloud environment. The solution must process approximately 1.1 billion monthly transactions across multiple file formats and communication protocols, while ensuring robust security compliance including ICAM integration. Vendors must submit detailed 25-page responses by January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM ET, with questions due by January 2, 2025, and must email responses to Nyeshia McAllister and Kevin Buckman at the specified DLA contact emails.

The procurement has no specific set-aside designation and is open to both software vendors and system integrators. While no immediate contract award is planned from this RFI, the government may invite selected vendors to demonstrate their solutions for a multi-year, multi-phase modernization effort. The current system uses Oracle and AWS S3 for data storage, and the new solution must support high-availability architecture with warm or hot continuity of operations (COOP) capabilities across multi-availability zones and/or multi-region cloud environments. Although specific budget ranges were not explicitly detailed, the RFI requests vendors provide rough order of magnitude (ROM) pricing estimates and comprehensive pricing models that account for containerized solutions and COOP considerations. The project aims to consolidate existing DAAS components (DDATA, DGATE, EBUS) and potentially transform the current transaction processing infrastructure, which currently handles an even split between individual and bundled transactions ranging from a few to tens of thousands of transactions per batch.