Request for Information (RFI) for Virtual Hosting Solutions

The Government of Canada (GC) is seeking to modernize and optimize the GC’s hosting solutions across a range of environments, including on-premises data centers, private cloud infrastructures, and public cloud platforms. This Request for Information (RFI) aims to gather comprehensive insight from industry on all viable approaches, services, and delivery models that support scalable, flexible, secure, and resilient hosting of virtualized workloads.

The Government of Canada is seeking industry input on the current and emerging landscape of virtualization technologies, with a view of informing future procurement strategies. While the primary focus is on virtualization technology, the RFI also considers related hosting and management options where these complement or integrate with virtualization technology. The objective is to establish procurement vehicles that provide flexible access to virtualization solutions and supporting services, to meet the Government’s diverse operational and security requirements.

Through this initiative, the GC seeks to reduce risk, increase agility, and ensure long-term sustainability of its IT infrastructure by enabling departments to access multiple hosting solutions that best fit their evolving business and technical requirements.

• SSC Request for Information (RFI) for Virtual Hosting Solutions- Amendment 000