Mountain Brook City School District Mbcsd #IT-26-148

USAC enterprise data platform replacement, migration, and operations

USAC is seeking a cloud-native enterprise data platform and implementation services to replace its on-premises Vertica-based data warehouse. - Buyer: Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), a not-for-profit corporation operating under Federal Communications Commission (FCC) oversight; no sub-agency or contracting office is identified. - Incumbent and named platforms: Vertica is the existing data warehouse to be replaced. Collibra content and R/Python workloads are identified for migration. No replacement OEM, product, or part number is prescribed. - Products and pricing: Annual platform licensing and compute for Production, Pre-Production, Test/QA, and Development; U.S.-based hosting and disaster recovery/failover; platform support and maintenance; and storage. Storage is priced annually per 10 TB for Production active analytics, Pre-Production, and archive, and per 5 TB for Test/QA and Development. Quantities and part numbers are not specified. - Services: Platform design, discovery and proof of concept, implementation, data and workload migration, reports/BI/analytics migration and build, testing and automation, parallel operation and phased cutover, program and contract management, documentation, hypercare, operations and maintenance, training, knowledge transfer, and transition-out. - Notable requirements: The platform must be cloud-native and authorized at FedRAMP Moderate or higher, with U.S.-based data hosting, security and privacy controls, governance and lineage, integrated geospatial capability, and analytics/AI enablement. The scope calls for at least 90 days of parallel operation before each cutover and at least 60 days of hypercare after each production cutover. The materials describe 10-year active-data retention, while the bid sheet prices a six-year active analytical layer plus a platform-managed archive beyond six years; bidders should clarify this retention difference. The contractor is accountable for complete discovery, design, integration, security, and correction of in-scope missed requirements or defects at no additional cost. - Term and pricing structure: A one-year base period plus two one-year options. Recurring platform and operations pricing is annual; implementation, migration, and cutover are firm-fixed-price, while hypercare and ongoing operations are time-and-materials with an annual ceiling. Contract start is tied to the awarded contract’s effective date.

Description

Universal Service Administrative Company is seeking a modern, cloud-native enterprise data platform authorized at FedRAMP Moderate or higher, together with services to design, validate, implement, operate, and transition it. The platform will serve as USAC’s enterprise analytical foundation and replace its existing on-premises Vertica-based Enterprise Data Warehouse. The scope includes platform licensing, hosting, storage, implementation, migration and cutover, hypercare, operations and maintenance, and transition-out. Proposals are due November 23, 2026; the RFP also lists October 20, 2026, as the question due date and October 26, 2026, as the Q&A response due date.

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