Sources Sought Notice - AICS Support

Background
The solicitation is a Sources Sought Notice to identify potential vendors capable of providing Application, Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity (AICS) support. The contract is amended to extend the deadline response date.

Work Details
The work includes analysis of approved requirements, software design, engineering, development and testing, implementation, operations, and maintenance services for applications supporting EHSS's mission needs and objectives. It also involves ensuring integration and interoperability between EHSS mission systems and other departmental systems, compliance with enterprise architecture, technical and administrative support for implementing, operating and maintaining applications in the EITS Enterprise Cloud Environment and Headquarters, customer training, user documentation development, customer help services for EHSS developed and maintained applications, documentation including pre-development documentation to elaborate approved requirements and acceptance criteria, high-level application architecture; documentation during development to explain application architecture and design, user experience design and architecture, source code, validation and testing documents; post-development documentation to support the application's change, release and configuration management requirements.
It also includes identifying risks associated with the development, monitoring, maintaining, enhancing and managing all existing business applications, utilizing an iterative development methodology for all work. The support for multiple frameworks within an Internet/Intranet architecture is required along with web application development using a service-oriented architecture and web services.
Additionally, it involves developing, testing, deploying, and installing applications of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Mission-driven data analytics of both quantitative and qualitative data to support risk and regulatory reporting requirements across EHSS programs. The implementation of language, platform and cloud agnostic Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform with support for containers is also part of the work.
Furthermore, it includes support for integration of application security and compliance monitoring tools.