Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Data Center and Cloud Optimization (DCCO) Support Services   2

Dear Industry Partners,

On behalf of the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (OCPO) and the Office of the Chief Information Officer, please be advised that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sincerely appreciates the significant responses and recommendations received from Industry on our Request for Information (RFI), dated February 19, 2019, which sought industry feedback and comments on Information Technology (IT) Compute and Storage Modernization, Cloud Migration, and Data Center Optimization services. The Department has carefully reviewed all responses and we will be incorporating many of the comments and recommendations into our requirement.

As a result of the Industry response to our RFI, the OCPO, on behalf of the OCIO, provides this announcement of the planned release of a solicitation to obtain Data Center and Cloud Optimization (DCCO) Support Services under the auspices of the EAGLE Next Generation (Next Gen) Program. This acquisition has three focus areas. First, the acquisition is designed to continue and optimize the services currently being purchased in a government owned-contractor operated data center located in Stennis, MS, called Data Center 1 (DC1). In addition to these data center services in DC1, this acquisition will allow for the purchase of professional services to assist with migrating infrastructure and applications from existing DHS data centers to Cloud Service Providers (CSP) or colocation sites. Finally, this acquisition will allow for the purchase and lifecycle management of both cloud and colocation services.

This notice is intended to be the first of many avenues of industry engagement aimed at optimizing collaboration between the Department and Industry for this important IT initiative. For your planning purposes, the following notional Industry Engagement and Procurement timeline is provided:

• Draft Scope: February 7, 2020
• Industry Day: March 2020
• Draft Requirements Document & Evaluation Factors: April 2020
• Comments due from Industry: April 2020
• Draft RFP Release: May 2020

We thank you for your interest in this planned procurement, and we look forward to your valuable feedback on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Data Center and Cloud Optimization (DCCO) requirement.