Customer Experience DevOps and Agile Releases (CEDAR)

Provide the VA with a streamlined enterprise-wide method to obtain such agile product design and delivery services, with the following goals:
1. Establish a streamlined and common contracting vehicle that will provide VA access to contractors specializing in agile design and delivery services including user-centered design, user research, product management, agile software development, API development, automated testing, cloud infrastructure design and management, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and DevOps.
2. Allow for agile delivery services to be delivered in a rapid-cycle fashion, in accordance with industry best practices.
3. Support the execution of multiple VA digital modernization efforts by providing VA a simplified method to add specific and specialized commercial capabilities to those efforts as needed.
4. Ensure VA can rapidly adopt technology and design-industry best practices such as those described in the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Digital Services Playbook and the TechFAR Handbook.