VA requires Contractor support to design, develop, and maintain various aspects of the VA Application Programming Interface (API) Development and Operations, including but not limited to platform design, API development and maintenance, developer documentation, and product management best practices to work with teams internal and external to VA, using modern software development methods and tools.
The Contractor shall provide VA with Agile development of APIs and support for the VA API Gateway. This includes project management, product management, requirements refinement, human centered design, iterative development, user research and usability testing, automated testing support, performance metrics definition and reporting, automated monitoring and performance reporting, and continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) for the development and enhancement of APIs and the API Gateway.
Through the Government’s prioritization of the backlog, the Contractor shall prioritize execution of all aspects of the API Gateway. The Contractor shall also work to ensure that all APIs are deployed or migrated into a VA designated cloud. The Government will provide the Contractor with access to the VAEC to include the credits required for all VAEC cloud development, testing, and production environment requirements. The VAEC includes a secure dedicated Wide Area Network connection between VA and the VAEC Cloud Service Provider (CSP). The Contractor shall not be responsible for buying cloud credits for this contract.
Responses are due by August 3, 2018.
