Request for Information Description - OCDAO

US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Office of Information and Technology (OIT)

Integrated Office of the Chief Data and Analytics Officer (OCDAO) Support

Request for Information (RFI)

This is a Request for Information (RFI) only issued for conducting market research. Accordingly, this RFI constitutes neither a Request for Quote (RFQ), Request for Proposal (RFP), nor a guarantee that one will be issued by the Government in the future; furthermore, it does not commit the Government to contract for any services described herein. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is not, at this time, seeking proposals or quotes, and therefore, will not accept, review, or evaluate unsolicited proposals or quotes received in response hereto. This notice is not to be construed as a commitment on the part of the Government to award a contract, nor does the Government intend to pay for any information submitted because of this request. The Government does not reimburse respondents for any costs associated with submission of the information being requested or reimburse expenses incurred for responses to this RFI. The information provided may be used by VA in developing its acquisition strategy and Performance Work Statement (PWS) or Product Description (PD). Any information submitted by respondents to this RFI is strictly voluntary; however, any information received shall become the property of the Government and will not be returned to the respondent. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted, or competition sensitive information contained in their response. Product information, brochures, part numbers, and/or other description information may be included with the submission. VA is under no obligation to provide feedback to the RFI respondent, or to contact the RFI respondent for clarification of any information submitted as part of the response.

Requirement:
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology, requires program management, data governance, data architecture, business analytics, and mission support services for the OCDAO. Services include cross-contract integration and coordination; analytics, dashboard, and business intelligence support; data governance, stewardship, and Enterprise Data Catalog services; Business Architecture refresh and reference model management; and mission-enabling initiative delivery, road mapping, and training. Success will be measured by timely completion and acceptance of deliverables and by mission outcomes, such as trusted analytics informing decisions and VA data being discovered, governed, and reused rather than duplicated. The overarching goal is data that is trusted, discoverable, and non-duplicative, and that improves Veteran-facing outcomes and stewardship of taxpayer resources. VA OIT has released several RFIs and RFPs recently. The CDAO Implementation Support contract is intended to manage, standardize, align, and improve enterprise data; ensure mission outcomes, data quality, business architecture, and trustworthy analytics. MOSAIC Modernizes and delivers authoritative transactional and operational data across all access patterns; establishes nextgeneration integration and dataproduct architecture. VEDAS provides an environment for analytics, insightgeneration, and AIassisted solutions for the governed, highquality data produced through our OCDAO Implementation Support and that delivered through MOSAIC.