# RFI: Federal Student Aid (FSA) Technology Modernization Initiative Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/07212025fsatmi - Solicitation number: 07212025_FSATMI - Notice type: Special notice - Status: Closed. Deadline was September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT - Department: Department of Education - Contracting office: FSA Acquisitions Office (910031) - Product or service code: DF01 Support services for IT Management to include Enterprise Architecture (EA), Financial Management, and Strategic Planning. EA includes services supporting business, information, application and technical architecture to drive standardization, integration and efficiency among business technology solutions. Financial Management includes services involved in the planning, budgeting, spend management and chargeback of IT expenditures and the costing of IT products and services. IT Management and Strategic Planning include senior professional and administrative support services facilitating centralized IT strategy and planning. - Place of performance: Washington, District of Columbia - County: District of Columbia (FIPS 11001). https://abierto.us/counties/district-of-columbia-dc-11001 - City: Washington. https://abierto.us/cities/washington-dc-1150000 - First posted: July 21, 2025 - Last posted: September 5, 2025 - SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/852a482a30014bdd9ceeabe88120c229/view ## Description UPDATES 09/05/2025 - Amendment #3 - Amendment 3 makes the following update to the RFI: 1. Round Two Questions and Answers - The consolidated list of vendor questions and FSA answers posted to SAM.gov in the RFI's Attachment section as: Amendment 3 - FSA RFI Responses - Round Two - 090525. This concludes the question-and-answer period. FSA looks forward to receiving vendor RFI responses no later than September 22, 2025 by 8:00a.m. ET. 08/25/2025 - Amendment #2 - Amendment 2 makes the following updates to the RFI: August 27, 2025 @ 12:00 pm ET - Round 2 of Questions and Answers - Vendors can submit additional questions and FSA will post the consolidated list of questions with answers. Individual answers will not be provided directly to the vendor. September 5, 2025 - Round 2 Questions and Anwers - The consolidated list of vendor questions and FSA answers will be posted to SAM.gov. September 22, 2025 @ 8:00 am ET - The Request for Information (RFI) repsonses are due. Please adhere to the submission guidelines listed in the RFI. Responses received after the deadline may not be reviewed. Socioeconomic status and government contract vehicle information should be included in the response. Please see the following Amendment 2 - FSA's Technology Modernization Industry Day Link which is posted under the RFI's Link section. Please see the following Amendment 2 attachments which have been uploaded under the RFI's Amendment section: Amendment 2- FSA's Technology Modernization Industry Day Thank You Notice Amendment 2 - Industry Day Presentation Amendment 2 - Revised Context Diagrams Amendment 2 - FSA Canonical Model_101624 Amendment 2 - Industry Day Recording Transcript 08/15/2025 - Amendment #1 to this RFI included: 1. The upload of FSA's responses to vendor's questions under the Attachment section as Amendment 1 - FSA RFI Responses - Round One - 081525 2. The upload of the Invitation to the FSA Technology Modernization Initiaitive Virtual Industry Day to be held on Friday, August 22, 2025 at 10:00AM - 12:30PM ET, under the Attachments section as Amendment 1 - FSA Tech Mod Initiative Industry Day Invite - 082225 (also includes form registration link). 3. The FSA Technology Modernization Initiative Virtual Industry Day Registration Form Link has been added under the RFI's Link section. The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to gain a better understanding of--and potentially leverage current and emerging industry capabilities to modernize FSAs technology while enabling the successful implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. More specifically, FSA aims to gather insights from industry on solutions to achieve a modern, integrated, and secure FSA systems ecosystem that addresses the shortcomings of our current state of technology. To this end, FSA is seeking innovative approaches to: - Modernize or replace FSAs legacy systems; - Integrate siloed data across multiple systems; - Consolidate or coordinate disparate vendor solutions; and - Improve services to students and borrowers. Additionally, FSA seeks input on whether a greenfield rebuild (i.e. developing a new system landscape from scratch); incremental improvements to existing systems; or a hybrid of both approaches will effectively meet the evolving demands and needs of students, parents, borrowers, and our partners. It is important to note that lessons learned from past efforts and audit findings including the need for comprehensive planning, realistic cost/schedule estimates, robust testing, and strong oversight should inform FSAs appoaches. Hence FSA encourages Respondents to reference these findings and propose solutions that address the documented weaknesses in FSAs current technology environment. Please see the following attachments: **FSA Modernization RFI Attachment 1:** **Context Diagrams Attachment 2:** FSA Modernization RFI Questions and Answers ## Publications - July 21, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice 44ce854d4d654395bc82ce3a3b135fbb. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/44ce854d4d654395bc82ce3a3b135fbb/view - July 21, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice 74efaac74b2d49c5a461dabfc91d68fe. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/74efaac74b2d49c5a461dabfc91d68fe/view - July 21, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice 8c9730eb8d6849ed9d444d09bcbce785. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/8c9730eb8d6849ed9d444d09bcbce785/view - July 21, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice c7c33399404845f9bbf13281d37b4081. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/c7c33399404845f9bbf13281d37b4081/view - July 21, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice fa2c6d31019442d3bb4c45dba267dccd. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/fa2c6d31019442d3bb4c45dba267dccd/view - August 15, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice 2acf892a7d2e4aa7b2d151464b4888dc. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/2acf892a7d2e4aa7b2d151464b4888dc/view - August 25, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice 74fb7383530c4e3086954e12594ba782. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/74fb7383530c4e3086954e12594ba782/view - August 25, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice addee78a9c81427e8769c376d1017a3f. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/addee78a9c81427e8769c376d1017a3f/view - September 5, 2025: Special notice, due September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Notice 852a482a30014bdd9ceeabe88120c229. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/852a482a30014bdd9ceeabe88120c229/view ## Points of contact - Federal Student Aid Technology Office, FSATechModernization@ed.gov --- Source: SAM.gov Contract Opportunities bulk extract. Confirm deadlines on SAM.gov before responding. Cite https://abierto.us/opportunities/07212025fsatmi.