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Federal Student Aid Enterprise Information Technology Architecture (EITA) Operation and Maintenance Contract

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 .

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Federal Student Aid Enterprise Information Technology Architecture (EITA) Operation and Maintenance Contract

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  1. Federal Student AidEnterprise 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

  2. Key Middleware SupportServices • 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

  3. 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

  4. Key Schedule Events RFI#2 Market Research RFP Development As is Model To be Model Pre-proposal Conference Option 4 Exercise Final Proposals Due Current Contract End/ New Contract Begin Issue Draft RFP Contract(s) Award(s) Issue Final RFP Evaluations Negotiations Source Selection New Contractor Transition Industry Capability Presentations 12/12 1/13 2/13 3/13 4/13 5/13 6/13 7/13 8/13 9/13 10/13 11/13 12/13 1/14 2/14 3/14 Major Milestone as of 5/17/2013

  5. 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

  6. Questions?

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