VA has issued an RFI for Information Technology Workforce Development (ITWD) Virtual Campus Operations and Support Services.
ITWD maintains responsibility for the design, development and delivery of IT-specific training in support of the VA Office of Information and Technology (OIT) workforce. This includes approximately 8,000 OIT Government employees and an additional 8,000 contractors.
To enable virtual delivery of courses, ITWD has a significant software and hardware infrastructure. This includes a Virtual Campus Web Applications that supports two green screen studios with control rooms in Falling Waters, West Virginia and two green screen studios with control rooms in Washington DC. The Virtual Campus Web Application is hosted and maintained in the cloud.
The Contractor shall provide an Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) cloud hosting solution, including associated licenses, operational and technical support, and minor changes to the VA owned, web-services-based, Virtual Campus software infrastructure. The Contractor shall update technical documentation, conduct testing, and provide training to VA staff. The Contractor shall provide technical and maintenance support of four existing production chroma-key (green screen) studios with control rooms (two studios with control rooms at Falling Waters and two studios with control rooms at Washington DC). The Contractor shall support the delivery of training instruction, meetings and conferences, and provide production staffing support for both studio locations. The Contractor shall manage the Virtual Campus infrastructure to support up to four (4) simultaneous broadcasts.
Responses are due by May 25, 2018.
