VISN 5 Nutanix refresh/upgrade

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 (VISN 5) is seeking to procure replacement hardware for its Nutanix Hyper Converged Infrastructure Hosting System to support critical medical applications across six Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (Baltimore, Beckley, Clarksburg, Huntington, Martinsburg, and Washington DC). The procurement encompasses brand-name or equivalent Nutanix nodes, specifically NX-8150 G10 units for backup infrastructure and NX-3460 G10 units for server infrastructure, along with installation services, training, and minimum 7-year post-installation support. The government requires all hardware to be compatible with Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor v7.x, include redundant network connections with minimum 25 GB/s interfaces, and be delivered with necessary cabling and integration services to ensure full functionality upon deployment. Award will be made through the NASA SEWP contracting vehicle to the technically feasible bid with the lowest cost. The Pre-solicitation Notice was posted on April 1, 2026, with a request for information deadline of April 17, 2026, allowing vendors to submit market research data and product information via an Excel worksheet.

This procurement involves no set-aside designations and seeks replacement of aging infrastructure that approaches end-of-life as early as March 2027. The solicitation requires a total of 9 Nutanix NX-8150 G10 backup nodes (3 units each for Baltimore, Martinsburg, and Washington DC) and 8 server infrastructure nodes across multiple models (6 NX-3460S G10 units, 1 NX-3260S G10 unit, and 1 NX-3160S G10 unit) distributed across all seven locations. Hardware specifications vary by location, with backup infrastructure requiring 24 cores, 96 GiB memory, and 3 TiB storage per node, while server infrastructure ranges from 8 to 18 cores and 96 GiB to 10,240 GiB memory depending on facility requirements. All equipment must include federal-grade support packages with trusted platform modules and NVMe storage options. While specific budget information is not disclosed in the pre-solicitation materials, the procurement encompasses 30 total job bids across hardware and support services, with contract performance timeline extending through the 7-year support period following installation.