GSA sets industry day to discuss acquisition system support

The General Services Administration has scheduled a virtual industry day to explain its plan for acquiring operations and maintenance support for the agency’s acquisition and ordering systems.

GSA will hold the event on Jan. 29 via Google Meets between 10 a.m. and 12:30 Eastern time. Up to three individuals per company or team may attend and the deadline for registration is 2 p.m. on Jan. 14, GSA said in a Wednesday notice to preview the presentation.

Companies may submit up to three questions in advance by 2 p.m. on Jan. 19.

The agency is seeking to hire a contractor that can help incorporate new functions for monitoring, alerting and reporting on key processes of the systems to ensure they are working properly. Elasticity is also a priority for GSA, as is removing performance bottlenecks that get in the way of scalability.

The scope of the effort is vast as it will cover systems used for contract lifecycle management, sales data and fee payments reports, electronic catalogs, market research, supply and order management, and digital experience efforts.

GSA is characterizing this procurement as a task order, but no specifics were given on the vehicle nor other mechanism the agency plans to award the work through.

Work will break out across these four primary task areas:

• Project management
• Transition management services
• Application operations, site reliability and the DevSecOps software practice
• Identity and access management services