FEMA Disaster Assistance Information Services (DAIS) Support - SOAR

FEMA was tasked by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to follow and execute a Presidential Executive Order of August 29, 2006, titled Executive Order: Improving Assistance for Disaster Victims (Executive Order 13411). Consistent with that order, FEMA has developed DAIS that entails creating DisasterAssistance.gov, which serves as the front-end Internet portal for disaster survivors seeking government assistance. The Contractor shall provide DisasterAssistance.gov with content management and content filtering functionality to prescreen applicants for disaster-related assistance suitability and also deliver current disaster related forms of assistance content. The Contractor shall incorporate registration into existing components to streamline application and data exchange processes. Further, the Contractor shall also manage and maintain the content management aspects for new and current disaster-related forms of assistance and prescreening and regulation rules. The Contractor shall provide subject matter expertise and resources to support the migration of the DisasterAssistance.gov web front end to a cloud environment. The responsibilities of the Contractor relating to the DAIS include, among other requirement include the following:1. Continued expansion, engineering, and maintenance of DisasterAssistance.gov and development of new solutions to meet the needs of DAIS to include, but not limited to, rules engine, cloud computing, referral information, registration, and data exchange services relating to disaster assistance capabilities and non-federal agency disaster assistance FOAs, regardless of their method(s) of assistance delivery.2. Continued expansion, engineering, and maintenance of the DisasterAssistance.gov web portal to allow for cloud computing services through a FedRAMP accredited provider allowing for efficient and effective management of information pertaining to and registration for disaster assistance available from federal and non-federal sources.3. Continued expansion, engineering, and maintenance of DisasterAssistance.gov supported content management system and its components for DAIS.