Last year, the General Services Administration's innovation team, 18F, built a set of pre-competed contracts for agile development vendors to give agencies help on quick-turnaround projects. Now, GSA's cloud security authorizer, FedRAMP, is getting in on the game with a draft request for quotes off the agile blanket purchase agreement (BPA).

Draft RFQ: FedRAMP Dashboard BPA Order

The chosen vendors will build a public-facing beta site consisting of a dashboard showing the progress of pending FedRAMP authorizations and individual agency compliance with the certification program.

"The government believes that building a publicly available, web-based dashboard that provides greater visibility and up-to-date status for vendors going through the FedRAMP certification process will yield a variety of positive outcomes," according to the draft RFQ posted on GitHub, "Including increased transparency and monitoring, improved decision-making and prioritization abilities [and] reduced effort in compliance activities, among others."

The RFQ notes the dashboard will be most useful for the agencies, the FedRAMP team, the Office of Management and Budget and "to a lesser extent the CSPs themselves."

As this is an agile development project, the work will be done in sprints, providing minimally viable products that can be tweaked and updated as required. Overall, FedRAMP expects to have a beta site ready for public viewing within 60 days of the post-award conference with the winning vendor, which will take place within 10 days of the award.

"The partnership with 18F to use the Agile BPA we think is the best way to get a solution on FedRAMP.gov as quickly as possible," said FedRAMP Director Matt Goodrich. "Using an agile and iterative approach that will focus on what our customers want to see and how it will be most useful for them."

The vendor chosen to perform the work on the dashboard will build a static site using data and script provided by FedRAMP.

FedRAMP and 18F are still reviewing the draft RFQ but expect to issue the final request during the last week in March.

About Aaron Boyd

Aaron Boyd is an awarding-winning journalist currently serving as editor of Federal Times — a Washington, D.C. institution covering federal workforce and contracting for more than 50 years — and Fifth Domain — a news and information hub focused on cybersecurity and cyberwar from a civilian, military and international perspective.

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