VA RFI: IT Software Development Support Services

1.0       BACKGROUND

The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Financial Services Center (FSC) is to provide high-quality financial services, exceeding the expectations of our federal customers, inspiring their trust and empowering them to focus on their core missions. The VA FSC Financial Technology Service (FTS) mission is to provide high- quality Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, software engineering, Electronic Commerce, and system support services to the FSC in accordance with the FSC’s overall mission. In meeting these goals, VA FSC strives to provide high-quality financial services, exceeding the expectations of our federal customers, inspiring trust and empowering them to focus on their core missions.

The VA FSC is a Franchise Fund site authorized pursuant to the Government Management Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-356). The Act authorizes designated agencies to provide certain common administrative support services on a reimbursable basis both internally and to other Government agencies. In 2006, permanent status was conferred upon the VA Franchise Fund under the “Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act 2006,” Public Law 109-114. Consequently, the VA FSC receives no federally appropriated funding and is required to market VA FSC services to customers. VA FSC provides IT services in support of various initiatives throughout the FSC and VA.

The objective of this acquisition is to acquire IT Software Development Services to include software engineering and development, and developer and architect expertise to perform system development life cycle (SDLC) tasks in the development and support of applications and systems. Some of the applications developed to support the VA- FSC initiatives were developed utilizing Microsoft .NET, Pega PRPC, MS SQL Server, COBOL (mainframe-based), SNYCSORT (mainframe-based), Oracle, BPEL, and Java components. VA-FSC also provides Software Development Services in support of various initiatives throughout the FSC, Other Government Agencies (OGA) and VA. Attachment B contains a sample of projects supported by FSC development teams in 2019. The listing of projects is meant to be illustrative in nature and is not meant to define the scope that will be performed for this task order (TO).

The Government’s objectives are to:

  1. Reduce operational costs
  2. Enhance Government operations, particularly in development and support of applications
  3. Seek consistency with Development maximum extent practicable.
  4. Allow flexibility in meeting variable demands
  5. Improve Government operations, particularly accountability and performance reporting
  6. Provide procedural checks and feedback to improve compliance and management control on processes
  7. Keep abreast of required technologies, standards and methodologies and propose to the FSC how to stay current with new versions of technologies as well as legislative mandates and other items as they relate to this TO…

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