Federal Student Aid
Enterprise Information Technology Architecture
(EITA) Operation and Maintenance Contract
A Small Business Opportunity
Montgomery Country Chamber of Commerce
Small Business Conference
Presented by: Dr. Wayne Fleming | 5/17/2013
Key Middleware Support Services
• EITI Common IT Support Services: Provides cross-cutting
information technology support services, including:
– Standard middleware products and technologies that enable FSA
application teams to share computing resources, shorten development
time, reduce complexity, and reduce cost and time to market
– Support of core infrastructure and architecture activities, including
technical leadership of COTS product upgrades, and architecture
support for OS and database patches, 90 day password changes,
infrastructure capacity planning, security scans, non-production and
production incidents, and daily maintenance activities
– Product experts to support the troubleshooting of complex application
or architecture issues, lead product upgrade and migrations, and assist
application teams in architecture review and application design
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Four Key Service Areas
• Integrated Technical Architecture (ITA)
– A common, enterprise-wide technical architecture that provides standard
products and technologies such as web servers, application servers, search
engines, data/information management, and content management tools
• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
– Service virtualization & orchestration that includes communication between
systems, transformation, routing, and supports shared services
• Access and Identity Management System (AIMS)
– A framework for access control, provisioning, delegated administration, and
simplified sign-on. Includes identity and access management tools, enterprise
policy repositories, enterprise user repositories, privacy policy and more
• Enterprise Business Collaboration (EBC)
– Employee Enterprise Business Collaboration (EEBC) and Partner Enterprise
Business Collaboration (PEBC) products, environments, & application support
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Key Schedule Events
RFI#2
Market Research
As is Model
RFP
To be Model Development
Option 4
Exercise
Pre-proposal
Conference
Issue
Draft RFP
Issue
Final RFP
Industry Capability
Presentations
12/12 1/13 2/13 3/13 4/13 5/13 6/13 7/13
Major Milestone as of 5/17/2013
4
8/13
Final
Proposals
Current
Contract(s)
Due
Contract
End/
Evaluations Award(s)
New Contract Begin
Negotiations
Source Selection
New Contractor
Transition
9/13 10/13 11/13 12/13 1/14 2/14
3/14
How to Best Position Your Firm
• Participate in the remaining pre-solicitation event:
– Pre-solicitation Conference (7/24/2013)
• Honestly assess your capabilities (your sweet spot)
– Don’t try to cover areas where you are less than outstanding in
• Find a good dancing partner/partners that compliment
– Only allow best in class on the team in supported areas
• Understand the requirement(s)
– Do your homework on FSA EITA needs (written/not written in the solicitation)
– Reach out and get to know the FSA EITA culture/environment/pain points
• Nail-down Sections L&M proposal and evaluation criteria
– Requires 100% adherence!!!
• UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF CAPTURE MANAGEMENT
– Strategic reviews
– Priced to win
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Questions?
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