Sources Sought
VA Enterprise-level Product Solutions
Department of Veterans Affairs · Sol. 36C10B27Q0025
Due in 8 days
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The VA's Technology Acquisition Center is running market research (an RFI, not a bid) on replacing or matching its Microsoft-based enterprise software for more than 540,000 users. It covers productivity, security, CRM, ERP, low-code, source code hosting, project management, support services and cloud. Vendors can answer for one, several or all capability areas by October 16, 2026.
Watch out for
- Information request only, not a bid. Responding does not lead to a contract, is unpaid, and the VA may or may not issue a later RFP or RFQ.
This is a Request for Information (RFI) only issued for conducting market research.
- Enterprise scale far beyond most small businesses. The VA wants products already proven for 500,000+ users, so only vendors or resellers of large platforms are realistic respondents.
Evidence of successful deployment at VA-like scale (500,000+ users, thousands of solutions)
- No payment for response costs. The VA will not pay for the time and cost of preparing a detailed bill of materials and quote.
The Government does not reimburse respondents for any
- Deadline time zone wording differs. The RFI text says 12 PM EST while the SAM.gov field is in Eastern daylight time (-04:00), so confirm the exact cutoff with the contract specialist.
Responses are due no later than Friday October 16, 2026, at 12 PM EST
Read from the notice and 2 attachments.
- 36C10B27Q0025_1.docx
- Request for Information- VA Enterprise-level Product Solutions.docx
Full brief
What they want
- Pricing and product information for any enterprise solution that meets the VA's requirements table, from any vendor or platform
- A bill of materials with part numbers, quantities and per-part pricing, plus a high-level cost breakdown
- Section 508 accessibility compliance details for each product
- Proof of similar large deployments (largest user count in production)
- Licensing models, tiered discounts and how AI features are priced
- Onboarding, training, exit and migration cost and timeline information
- SLA and actual uptime details for cloud services
- Feedback on whether any requirements are too restrictive or cause vendor lock-in
- Place of performance
- Not stated in the notice. The RFI says professional services would be within the continental U.S. (CONUS), with remote delivery acceptable but on-site work possible.
- Offers due
- Friday October 16, 2026, 12 PM Eastern (the SAM.gov deadline field reads 2026-10-16T12:00:00-04:00)
- How to submit
- Email to both kalil.oneal@va.gov and matthew.newell@va.gov
- Page limits
- No longer than 10 pages per capability area
What to include when you submit
- Answer each question in the RFI, following the Table 1 requirements matrix
- Include company name, address, point of contact, phone, fax, email and CAGE number
- Mark the response "Proprietary Information" if it is business sensitive
- You may respond to one, several or all of the capability areas
- Product brochures and part numbers may be included
You must have
- No existing FedRAMP certification is needed to respond to this RFI, but any later award would need the VA's Authorization to Operate (ATO) before going into production
this RFI does not require respondents’ alternatives to hold existing FedRAMP certification to be considered
- Solutions must operate in a U.S.-only data residency environment with screened U.S. personnel and meet NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and VA Directive 6500
Solution shall operate in a segregated, US-only data residency environment with access restricted to screened US personnel
- Products should be proven at a scale similar to the VA's (hundreds of thousands of users)
have been demonstrated to operate at a similar level of size, scope, and complexity to VA’s current environment
- No small business set-aside is listed (set-aside: none)
Current contractor
The VA's current environment is built on Microsoft: the RFI says the capability areas are currently supported under its Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, though it says the research is vendor-neutral.
Not in the notice text
- Whether a follow-on RFP or RFQ will be issued, and when
- Contract type, contract length and estimated value
- Contract vehicle, if any
- Place of performance (notice field is blank)
- How any later award would be evaluated
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 16, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 5, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Solicitation
- 36C10B27Q0025
- Agency
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Office
- Technology Acquisition Center NJ (36C10B)
- NAICS
- 513210
- Product/service code
- DA10
- Business type
- IT, software & telecom
- Contracting contact
- Kalil O'Nealkalil.oneal@va.gov848-377-5261
Full notice text from SAM.gov
See Attached RFI Documentation
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