DHS posts draft SOW for Architecture, Development, and Platform Technical Services (ADaPTS) 2.0 BPA

Updated December 4,2024

Notice ID: SSN_DHS_ADaPTS

This notice is to advise vendors that DHS OPO intends to issue a solicitation for a multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) under the General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Special Item Numbers (SIN) 54151S – IT Professional Services to obtain highly specialized technical contractor support services to assist the OCIO in executing and accomplishing its mission objectives.

The objective of this procurement is to obtain highly specialized technical contractor support services to assist the OCIO in executing and accomplishing its mission objectives. The key mission objectives are listed below:

• Implement and manage Cloud based commodity computing services
• Perform end-to-end technical requirements management for enterprise IT services
• Maintain and track application service level agreements and performance measurements
• Support Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) / Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) application integration and interoperability for customer developed components
• Perform application and service compliance and performance monitoring …

** Industry Day – This notice is intended to also to inform industry of an upcoming virtual industry engagement event and provide the notional schedule for the ADaPTs 2.0. Additional registration details will be provided in the near future. **

The following high-level notational schedule for the ADaPTs 2.0 is for Industry review and planning purposes. Please note, dates are subject to change.

• Comments Due from Industry on Draft Documents: December 10, 2024, NLT 10:00 AM ET
• Industry Engagement Event: December 16, 2024
• Final Solicitation Release: January 8, 2025
• Quotation Phase I Due Date: January 22, 2025
• Quotation Phase II Due Date: February 2025
• Quotation Phase III Due Date: April 2025
• Anticipated Award: June 2025

Read more here.

Updated June 18, 2024

DHS has provided an updated timeline, sharing that the next generation of this high-profile ADaPTS BPA, which will seek to obtain highly specialized technical and program management support services to assist OCIO in executing and accomplishing its mission objectives, will be released as early as October 1, 2024. The exact acquisition strategy is still being developed and you can expect to see many companies working hard to influence how, when, and where the RFP is released.

• Program and Project Management
• Agile Software Development Processes
• Security/Development/Operations (SecDevOps) Processes
• Engagement and facilitation of key stakeholders
• Business Analysis and Requirement management
• Application, service and cloud architecture support
• Application and Service Design, Development, Implementation and Migration
• Unit, System, User Acceptance, Section 508, and Automated Testing
• User Interface / User Experience Design
• Business Intelligence, dashboard and analytics support
• Business process re-engineering and change management
• Integration with databases and applications.
• Analytics and reporting
• Release management
• Training support
• Data Standardization, Quality, and Analytic Support Services
• Platform Support and Disaster Recovery (DR)
• User guides and system documentation
• Acquisition Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Support
• Systems Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) Support
• Operational Analysis (OA) and other Post-Deployment Support
• Manage Cloud based commodity computing services and Shared Services
• Knowledge management, communications, and graphics support
• Audit, Tasker, and Executive Clearance Support
• Security Support Services
• Security Engineering Services
• Zero Trust Strategy Development and Implementation
• Configuration Management Support
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Support
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing (NLP) Support
• Support for other new and evolving technologies
• Accessibility Subject Matter Expert Support
• Electronic Content Accessibility Support
• Accessibility Compliance Support
• Technical Editor Support

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