The Department of General Services wants feedback from vendors about a draft bid that would procure "PaaS and IaaS Cloud Services" that have achieved FedRAMP's high security controls, from one or more providers through newly created, three-year statewide contracts.
The draft bid, released Dec. 30, is available on Cal eProcure, the state's procurement website. Comments should be sent to marc.anderson@dgs.ca.gov by Jan. 20.
It appears DGS will try to complete this solicitation, when released in final form, in about three months. The department's new "90-day" end-to-end procurement process, developed through a Lean Six Sigma methodology, frontloads research and requirements gathering outside of the procurement itself. DGS also intends to pre-publish bids, as it's doing in this case, to get feedback from vendors before going out to bid.
See the tentative timeline below:
Source: DGS