United States - DevOps Services Contract

Description

Added: May 06, 2019 3:38 pm

DESC: MARKET SURVEY AND BIDDERS LIST DEVELOPMENT - SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE FOR OUTSOURCING FOR DEVOPS ENGINEERING, OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT SERVICES.

The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified industry sources of vendors to provide application infrastructure engineering, operations, and support (DevOps) services for the United States Senate (Senate) in Washington, DC. Engineering includes, but is not limited to deploying and maintaining a container-based PaaS, middleware services such as databases, and CI/CD pipelines (toolchains). Operations and support include, but are not limited to application infrastructure maintenance, provisioning, and support.

All requirements listed below are mandatory unless otherwise noted. This Sources Sought Notice (SSN) is not a request for proposal and in no way obligates the Senate in an award of a contract. This sources sought synopsis contains the currently available information. This information is subject to change at any time. Requirements are stated in terms of minimum capabilities and characteristics required by the Senate.
REQUIREMENTS
The general scope of the requirements is as follows: engineering, operations, and support services for the Senate's production application infrastructure that is composed of an on-premises container-based PaaS (Red OpenShift), middleware database services (PostgreSQL and MongoDB), and various CI/CD pipelines (OpenShift projects). Work will be performed at Senate locations, primarily in Washington, DC.
The Contractor must be able to staff, manage and perform the following:
(1) Provide production engineering services for the Senate's on-premises container-based PaaS (Red Hat OpenShift) environment. OpenShift engineering services include: Configuring, testing, documenting, and implementing OpenShift updates and upgrades. Building new clusters and adding resources (scaling) to existing. Monitoring and auditing existing OpenShift projects and resources and submitting regular reports for capacity planning. Developing and implementing monitoring, logging, maintenance, and visibility strategies and solutions for projects running in the clusters. Implementing, refining and maintaining default templates, including quotas, requests, and limits. Tracking and maintaining certificates and other time-based licensing needs. Testing disaster recovery plans and supporting drills. Providing tier-2 support.
(2) Provide engineering services for production database middleware services. Database engineering services include: Configuring, testing, documenting, and implementing updates, upgrades, and new functionality for the PostgreSQL and MongoDB services. Monitoring and auditing existing database services resources and security configurations, and submitting regular reports. Developing and implementing monitoring, logging, maintenance, and visibility strategies and solutions. Testing disaster recovery plans and supporting drills. Providing tier-2 support.
(3) Provide operations services. Operations services include: Maintaining application infrastructure inventory for the OpenShift environment. Provisioning application infrastructure. Performing routine updates and maintenance activities for clusters and middleware services. Working with OpenShift engineers and application developers to implement and maintain projects. Documenting operational changes.
(4) Provide support services. Support services include: Providing tier-1 support for OpenShift platform, database middleware services, and projects running in OpenShift. Providing tier-1 support for Senate internal and external websites and web-based applications.
OFFEROR RESPONSES:
The SAA invites all qualified sources to respond to the sources sought notice. All responses to this sources sought notice shall specifically address the four (4) requirements listed above by stating your qualifications to perform each of the requirements. Your response to each requirement must include paragraph numbering identifiable to requirements listed above.
In addition, submissions must include:
a) past performance experience/information for a minimum of three (3) contracts of similar scale, that have been performed during the past three (3) years that involve use of capabilities and products relevant to those necessary for the Senate's requirements, including contract number, customer name and address, and brief synopsis of work performed relevant to requirements 1 - 4 above,
b) organizational information including (i) company name and address; (ii) Dun and Bradstreet number; and (iii) point of contact name with telephone and e-mail address.
The information contained in this notice will be the only information provided by the Senate or the SAA during the Sources Sought process. All qualified sources should respond to this Market Survey - Sources Sought Notice by submitting an information package in accordance with the instructions provided. Vendors responding to this Notice and deemed qualified by the SAA may be requested to submit a proposal in response to a solicitation. Only firms deemed qualified will be permitted to submit proposals. If suitable responses are received from qualified sources, the SAA anticipates release of a solicitation during the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2019. Neither the SAA nor the Senate will be responsible for any costs for the preparation of responses to this request.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Responses to this Market Survey-Sources Sought Notice are due to the SAA Procurement point of contact no later than May 28, 2019, at 12:00 Noon and shall be submitted electronically via email only to the attention of Nicole Barnes at acquisitions@saa.senate.gov The subject line of the email message shall be "SSN 2019-S-046 DevOps Services Contract" No other method of transmittal will be accepted by the SAA. The response shall not exceed twenty-five (25) pages. Unnecessarily elaborate submissions are discouraged and pages over the page limitation may be discarded. Access by the SAA to information in any files attached to the response is the responsibility of the submitting party. Neither the SAA nor the Senate is responsible for any failure to access vendor's information.
THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. THIS NOTICE CONSTITUTES THE ENTIRE SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND IS THE ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE SAA OR SENATE. ANY REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE HONORED.

Opportunity closing date

28 May 2019

Value of contract

to be confirmed