Veterans Affairs starts to craft financial system recompete
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Ross Wilkers
The Veterans Affairs Department is seeking a contractor that can help develop and configure new deployments on an incremental basis.
The Veterans Affairs Department has taken step one in its work to set up a new contract for support of its financial and acquisition management systems amid VA’s ongoing migration of them to a cloud-based setup.
A sources sought notice issued Monday outlines VA’s new iteration of its Financial Management Business Transformation effort, where the department is looking to hire a contractor that can help develop and configure new deployments in a series of waves.
VA’s thinking is to take a more incremental deployment approach, where organizations receive the new capabilities at different times and phases.
Each deployment wave will require distinct project management support, hosting environment and managed services support, implementation support and transition support.
The department is moving to the Momentum cloud solution, which is made by CGI Federal and designated as VA’s Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System. Momentum is also hosted in the VA Azure cloud environment.
VA also is seeking help with standardizing and automating business processes, strengthening internal controls, mitigating audit deficiencies and ensuring the system gives users timely and accurate information.
Responses to the RFI are due no later than July 8.
Deloitte is the incumbent contractor, having won the work in 2013 as a delivery order to help VA in its transition to the IFAMS setup. VA has obligated $163 million in work against the order to-date ahead of its October 2029 sunset date, according to GovTribe data.