On November 4, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Mainframe Line of Business (MLOB) announced that it is seeking information from industry to assist with the development and planning of a potential new requirement. Companies that wish to respond to this RFI should send responses via email no later than 12:00 p.m. Central on November 10.
In support of DISA’s ongoing effort to create a new Blockchain as a service offering for its mission partners, DISA is conducting market research to ensure better understanding of the capabilities available in the market place relevant to a Blockchain as a service offering which could be deployed on Z systems.
The scope of this RFI is to determine industry products available that provide a solution stack to enable DISA to provide a scalable permissioned Blockchain as a service offering which can be run on a mainframe environment. Blockchain as a service capabilities must work in correlation to the technical characteristics.
DISA representatives may choose to meet with potential offerors and hold one-on-one discussions. Such discussions would only be intended to obtain further clarification of potential capability to meet the requirements, including any development and certification risks.
Full information is available here.
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