Procurement #: RFP 1723-669

Solicitation Type: RFP

Purpose: This competitive solicitation for a fixed fee deliverables-based contract is issued in order to assist the Economic Services Administration (ESA), Information Technology Solutions (ITS) Division of the Washington State DSHS in seeking qualified contractor(s) to re-host all the ACES Complex of mainframe applications residing on the IBM mainframe to an open systems platform that can deliver a resilient, reliable, high-throughput and high-performance computing system.

Contact Name: Sarah Pendleton

Contact Email: sarah.pendleton@dshs.wa.gov

Contact Phone: (360) 664-6050

Issue Date: May 14, 2018

Bidder Questions Due: June 4, 2018 by 3:00 PM Pacific Standard Time

Answers Released: June 11, 2018

Proposal Due Date: ​​July 20, 2018 by 3:00 PM Pacific Standard Time

Selected highlights from the solicitation are below. Visit the website for more details: https://www.dshs.wa.gov/fsa/procurements/eligibility-service-and-aces-re...

Purpose
This competitive solicitation for a fixed fee deliverables-based contract is issued in order to assist the Economic Services Administration (ESA), Information Technology Solutions (ITS) Division of the Washington State DSHS in seeking qualified contractor(s) to re-host all the ACES Complex of mainframe applications residing on the IBM mainframe to an open systems platform that can deliver a resilient, reliable, high-throughput and high-performance computing system.

The goal of this effort is to successfully implement a re-hosting solution that will provide a low-risk and cost-efficient way to improve overall maintenance and operations. The proposed solution must minimize the amount of change and functional impact to the legacy applications, while maintaining the public assistance programs and eligibility determination they provide. DSHS must be able to continue to leverage its existing coding languages and skill sets. The re-hosted system should not alter the end-user experience.

The successful re-hosting solution must seamlessly replace or migrate all existing ACES functionality, security, and interfaces. The proposed solution will:

• Minimize the amount of change that must occur when migrating systems to an open systems platform.
• Must support Customer Information Control System (CICS) and Information Management System (IMS) Application Program Interfaces (APIs) so that transactional programs do not have to be re-engineered; such as job control language (JCL) batch jobs and basic mainframe file types and Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM).
• Meet CMS security standards and MARS-E 2.0

DSHS requires that all the interfaces that currently reside on the mainframe will be migrated to the re-hosted platform and will continue to work as designed.

DSHS requires that the migrated application will continue to interact with the real-time Social Security Administration (SSA) interface inquiry function called State Online Query (SOLQ) which resides on an SSA mainframe. Bidder knowledge of state and federal public assistance programs is helpful but not required for the scope of this project. A key project objective is to keep the existing code base and migrate that code to an open-systems compatible environment.