NCA is building an interactive online memorialization solution designed to honor the service and sacrifice of our Nation’s Veterans. This digital memorial space, tentatively named the VLM, will allow visitors to honor, cherish, share, and pay their respects to Veterans interred at VA national cemeteries. The VLM platform aims to preserve the legacy of those Veterans by commemorating and sharing their stories. Through this RFI, VA is exploring various courses of actions to develop the VLM platform and is seeking to acquire cloud space and infrastructure support for VLM. To meet presidential milestones for the VLM platform, the proposed solution must be in production by Memorial Day, May 27,2019 meeting the following requirements:
- The capability shall allow all users through the vendor provided API to search for and view non- PII/non-sensitive/publicly available NGL data on Veteran record(s) and the corresponding memorial content (name of the decedent, rank, campaign/war, valor citations, branch of service(s), year of birth, year of death, burial location (site in cemetery, name of cemetery, and link to that cemetery’s page), address of cemetery, and phone number of the cemetery); only authenticated users may provide comments and respond to comments.
- The capability shall only include the ability to brand as VA and NCA.
- The vendor cannot use their access to Veteran data to inform the development of additional products not endorsed by VA and intended for monetary or commercial gain.
- The capability shall allow users to create user accounts with unique user names, where they can then contribute to the Veteran’s record page via tribute, dedications, pictures, historical notes, comments, badges, and other information, which will be made public and tracked in the user’s site activity history…
