Abacus Visual Playbook Builder and Automation Orchestrator

for Information Title: Abacus Visual Playbook Builder and Automation Orchestrator VA-26-00041469 Introduction This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and shall not be considered an Invitation for Bid, Request for Task Execution Plan, Request for Quotation or a Request for Proposal. Additionally, there is no obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services described in this RFI. Your response to this RFI will be treated only as information for the Government to consider. You will not be entitled to payment for direct or indirect costs that you incur in responding to this RFI. This request does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated or received for this effort. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this RFI. The North American Industry System (NAICS) for this requirement is 541512 with a size standard of $34.0 million. 2. Submittal Information: All responsible sources may submit a response in accordance with the below information. There is a page limitation for this RFI of 15 pages. The Government will not review any other information or

attachments included, that are in excess of the (15) page limit. NO MARKETING MATERIALS ARE ALLOWED AS PART OF THIS RFI. Generic capability statements will not be accepted or reviewed. Your response must address capabilities specific to the services required in the attached PWS and must include the following: Interested Vendors shall at a minimum, provide the following information in the initial paragraph of the submission: Name of Company Address

Point of Contact Phone Number Fax Number Email address Company Business Size and Status For VOSB and SDVOSBs, proof of SBA certification. SDVOSB/VOSB vendors that have not been certified by SBA should not respond to this notice. NAICS code(s) Socioeconomic data Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) Number Existing Contractual Vehicles (GWAC, FSS, or MAC) Provide a summary of your capability to meet the

requirements contained within the attached Draft Statement of

Objectives for the following areas: Describe your organization s experience and capabilities as they relate to the following. Include specific project references, case studies, or contract examples where available: Contractor developed web application and delivery for federal agencies, with emphasis on VA Medical Device Virtual Local Area Network (Vlan) healthcare environments with emphasis on Visn 23 Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) usability. Systems integration involving Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, and enterprise infrastructure components under a single Prime contractor accountability model. Coordination of multi-vendor professional services engagements (e.g., Red Hat Professional Services, HCI vendor professional services) as subcontractors or directed partners. Address how you would manage the infrastructure dependency chain where application deployment cannot begin until platform installation is complete, and how you would handle accountability when integration issues span vendor boundaries. Development and deployment of containerized applications in air-gapped (dark-site) environments, including release bundle assembly, offline container registry management, and air-gapped CI/CD pipelines. Building user interfaces for non-technical user populations who lack scripting, command-line, or automation

background. Experience with Ansible module or collection development, particularly for Windows targets using WinRM. Provide a narrative describing your proposed technical approach to the following areas. The Government is particularly interested in responses that demonstrate understanding of the system s novel integration challenges rather than generic capability statements. Dark-Site Delivery and Sustainment Strategy. Describe your approach to delivering and maintaining containerized applications in an air-gapped environment. Address how release bundles will be assembled, how container images will be mirrored to internal registries, how offline vulnerability databases will be maintained for CI/CD scanning, how Ansible collection updates will be distributed through Private Automation Hub, and how future updates (including UBI base image security patches) will be packaged and delivered. Identify the specific tooling you would use. (This contract is scoped just for VISN 23 Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) and does not need to accommodate enterprise-wide compatibility for VHA.) Technology Stack and Container Strategy. Identify the development frameworks, languages, and runtimes you would propose for each contractor developed component (Abacus Application frontend and backend, Asset Ingress Service, abacus.retrieve Ansible collection, playbook generation logic). Explain how your selections align with Red Hat UBI