Federal Student Aid Enterprise Information Technology Architecture (EITA) Operation and Maintenance Contract Presented by: Dr. Wayne Fleming | 5/17/2013 Montgomery Country Chamber of Commerce Small Business Conference A Small Business Opportunity

Key Middleware Support Services 2 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

Four Key Service Areas 3 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

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

How to Best Position Your Firm 5 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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