NOAA unveils first blueprint for mobile device management contract
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Ross Wilkers
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants a cloud-hosted offering to manage its inventory of devices that run off the Apple, Microsoft and Google operating systems.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started to explore the landscape for ideas to inform its creation of a new potential five-year task order focused on mobile device management.
NOAA estimates it needs approximately 3,500 core licenses to aid its management of multiple operating system platforms and devices across the enterprise. The agency’s environment includes devices that run OS platforms provided by Apple, Google and Microsoft.
NOAA is structuring the order as firm-fixed-price with one initial base year and up to four individual option years, the agency said in a sources sought notice issued Monday.
The request for information describes NOAA’s interest in a cloud-hosted solution, which would be a commercially-provided software-as-a-service offering.
In addition to the core licenses, NOAA also wants information on how it could purchase 3,500 licenses for mobile threat management functions.
Some of NOAA’s minimum technical requirements for the solution include single-sign on, capability to integrate with Google Workspace Enterprise and ForgeRock OpenAM/OpenDJ, zero-day support, over-the-air enrollment, and the ability to run and export reports.
NOAA is also requiring certain self-service functions such as password resets, device management controls and remote device wipes without staff intervention.
The solution must be FedRAMP-authorized and have an authority-to-operate under the Federal Information Security Management Act.
Responses to the RFI should not exceed five pages, excluding the cover page and table of comments. The window to respond closes at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Oct. 5.