Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking industry feedback for a Cloud Brokerage Service to consolidate, optimize, and govern multi-cloud operations across the VA Enterprise Cloud environment. The service should provide end-to-end lifecycle management, including cloud credit procurement, financial management, automated provisioning, and security and compliance monitoring. The contractor will be responsible for managing cloud resources, providing granular chargeback and showback capabilities, and ensuring continuous Authority to Operate (ATO) compliance. Key objectives include reducing cloud credit procurement cycle time, achieving high chargeback accuracy, automating provisioning, and maintaining continuous ATO compliance. The period of performance is expected to be six years and six months, with a base year and five option years.
• Cloud Brokerage Platform Operations: The contractor shall deploy, configure, and maintain the Cloud Brokerage Platform in a FedRAMP High-authorized environment.
• Credit Procurement and Financial Management: The contractor shall procure, allocate, and track cloud credits and financial commitments across all managed CSPs on behalf of the VA.
• Provisioning Automation: The contractor shall automate provisioning of approved cloud resources using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates and methodologies.
• Security and Compliance: The contractor shall integrate security and compliance monitoring with VA Security Operations Center (SOC) capabilities, Enterprise Security Architecture, and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) programs.