FDA starts to craft enterprise IT infrastructure services contract
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Ross Wilkers
The Food and Drug Administration is asking for industry input on acquisition strategies, pricing models, transition approaches and other key items.
The Food and Drug Administration has embarked on market research efforts to inform its work on creating a new enterprise IT infrastructure services contract that would also include lifecycle management in the scope of work.
FDA officials are contemplating whether the future contract would have a three-tiered pricing structure for task orders, depending on the nature of services being provided.
A sources sought notice posted Saturday describes that concept as consisting of firm-fixed-price orders for baseline operations, variable fixed-price for fluctuating workloads, and labor-based pricing for projects and initiatives deemed non-routine.
The request for information asks industry to provide input on acquisition strategies, pricing models, transition approaches and operational support for the contract.
Infrastructure planning, deployment, modernization, transition planning and decommissioning activities are additional key areas of interest for FDA officials in releasing the RFI.
The notice also references a colocation environment in Ashburn, Virginia that a future contractor could be asked to assume operational responsibility over.
Responses to the RFI are due by 4 p.m. Eastern time on July 3.