November Newsletter: Upcoming Contracts
Upcoming Contracts
We are tracking two major contracts expected to drop next year; the Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland (FLASH 2.0) solicitation and the HRSA Evaluation Studies IDIQ contract. Get more details on these two opportunities and Red Team’s take below.
Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland (FLASH 2.0)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a requirement for highly-qualified Agile teams skilled in deploying IT capabilities quickly and securely while also yielding a system with a better user-experience.
Agency: DHS
Expected Release Date: April 2018 (Deltek Estimate)
Value: $1.54 Billion
Competition Type: Small Business Set-Aside
Summary of Requirements: The awardee shall provide DHS components with agile design and development teams. The following list provides examples of support within the scope:
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- User Story Collaboration
- User Centered Design
- Code Development
- Automated Testing
- Usability testing
- Integration Support
- Data Migration
- Deployment Activities
- DevOps
- Configuration Management/Change Control
- User Training
- Metrics Reporting
Red Team’s Take: As with the rest of industry, we eagerly await FLASH 2.0 to see how DHS plans to approach the evaluation process after a lengthy and expensive issuance of FLASH in 2016 that resulted in 35 protests and was ultimately canceled in May of 2017. We anticipate that DHS will incorporate lessons learned from FLASH, while still pushing for an innovate procurement approach.
HRSA Evaluation Studies IDIQ
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) may have a continuing requirement for HRSA Evaluation Studies.
Agency: HHS
Expected Release Date: May 2018 (Deltek Estimate)
Value: $150 Million
Competition Type: Small Business Set-Aside; Full and Open / Unrestricted
Summary of Requirements: The types of activities relating to the RFP fall into one of three domains.
Domain 1 Activities May Include:
- Assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of HRSA-supported programs-operations, outcomes, and performance
- Analysis of contextual/policy issues which may impact the effectiveness of HRSA-supported activities
Domain 2 Activities May Include:
- Determining and strengthening capacity for health and public health-related evaluation both within HRSA and among its programs/grantees
- Providing technical assistance and training to build evaluation capacity among HRSA programs and HRSA staff to enhance both the ability of programs to conduct evaluation and the ability/capacity of HRSA to conduct evaluations on its programs
Domain 3 Activities May Include:
- Assessing and developing evaluation-related IT data systems both within HRSA and among its programs/grantees
- Developing professionally-validated data linking algorithms to support program evaluation
- Information technology capacity development to support evaluation-related activities among small and medium sized public health organizations serving HRSA program/grant clients and/or program/grant areas
Red Team’s Take: There is no time like the present to begin capture efforts for this HRSA IDIQ. If you bring capabilities in any of the three domains now is the time to develop a call plan, assess the competition, consider teaming, and consider your proposal strategy.
