VA has issued a sources sought to meet its requirement to obtain Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) services for the FMBT program including today’s best practices being used commercially and in government to further enable VA’s efforts to transform its current financial environment into a better, more efficient and effective one.
The Contractor shall perform IV&V services. Verification & Validation (V&V) is an extension of program management and system engineering that employs a rigorous methodology to identify objective data and conclusions to provide feedback about quality, performance, and schedule to stakeholders. V&V is performed in parallel with all life cycle stages, not at conclusion. In the context of this plan the term “life cycle” is used in reference to the evolution of a system, product, service, project or other human-made entity from conception through retirement (IEEE Std. 12207:2008).
The contractor is expected to work with the government team on coordination and scheduling of IV&V tasks and work to complete agreed upon IV&V tasks contained in the latest approved FMBT IV&V Integrated Master Schedule. The government team is Systems Quality Assurance…
Responses are due by July 9, 2018.




