Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is conducting market research to identify qualified sources capable of providing infrastructure modernization and expansion services for the VISN 21 Biomedical Information Technology (BioMed IT) environment. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to obtain industry feedback regarding the availability of commercial products, services, implementation approaches, and acquisition strategies capable of supporting the Government's requirements. The key aspects of the project include:
• Upgrading and expanding existing server, virtualization, networking, and storage infrastructure
• Providing additional compute capacity, enhanced performance, improved redundancy, and lifecycle modernization of existing equipment
• Establishing a new virtual machine (VM) infrastructure environment at the VA Pacific Islands Health Care System (Hawaii)
• Providing professional services necessary to support planning, design validation, installation, configuration, migration, testing, optimization, documentation, knowledge transfer, and implementation support activities
The Government expects all proposed solutions to integrate with the existing VISN 21 architecture and support ongoing healthcare operations with minimal disruption to patient care systems and clinical services.