The Indian Health Service (IHS) is seeking information from potential sources to support the establishment of a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). The CCoE will utilize a FedRAMP High-authorized cloud platform to centralize, secure, and automate cloud operations, supporting mission-critical health IT objectives. The requirements include cloud hosting, provisioning, and management services, as well as compliance with various federal standards and regulations, such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53 Rev 5, and the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model. The scope of work includes designing and deploying a secure cloud landing zone, automating compliance and operational workflows, and providing training and knowledge transfer to IHS personnel.
• The cloud platform must provide a minimum of 170 compliant services and support multi-region deployment with U.S.-only operations.
• The solution must meet specific criteria, including FedRAMP authorization, physical infrastructure located within the continental United States, and personnel with access to tribal health data being U.S. persons subject to federal oversight and background investigation requirements.
• The contractor must provide a comprehensive solution that includes cloud landing zone design and deployment, secure enclave provisioning, automation and orchestration, data engineering and ETL, large language model enablement, compliance dashboards and risk analytics, zero trust architecture implementation, security operations and monitoring, and secure data vault and metadata governance.
• The contractor must also provide role-specific support tools and training to IHS personnel, as well as ensure compliance with federal standards and regulations.