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The purpose of this RFI was to gather additional information to help VA determine the most suitable acquisition strategy to maintain and evolve its existing VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) which is current... The purpose of this RFI was to gather additional information to help VA determine the most suitable acquisition strategy to maintain and evolve its existing VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) which is currently built upon the cloud services of Microsoft Azure Government (MAG) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud. This included contemplating the complete replacement of one or both of VA s existing Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and/or expanding the VAEC to include additional FedRAMP High certified CSPs. Currently, VAEC requires access through the purchase of cloud credits to only FedRAMP High Government Community Cloud (GCC) service providers with VA Authority to Operate for the full suite of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models. Further, VA anticipates any expansion effort involving the integration of additional CSPs within the VAEC will be executed through separate brand name acquisitions. VA has architected and operates its enterprise cloud, and any additional CSP would need to be architected in accordance with VA technical requirements. These facts do not restrict competition for other SaaS and PaaS cloud offerings which are outside the scope of the VAEC. Based on the above, the Request for Quotation will be posted to National Aeronautics and Space Administration Solutions for Enterprisewide Procurement Governmentwide Acquisition Contract for limited competition among resellers for the required brand name AWS cloud service capabilities and professional services.