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ICH Combined Service Offering

GSA Firm Fixed Price - $500,000 per year

The ICH Architecture Immersion Program is a Gold Branded Program for organizations that want full assurance of their EA efforts ability to provide actionable results. It includes all the deliverables from the Combined Services Offering, plus organizational readiness, organizational change and regulatory compliance support (A11/130, GPRA and GISRA).

Deliverables:

• ICH Basic Membership
• ICH Charter Subscription
• Mentoring Program Deliverables
• Validation Program Deliverables
• Organizational Readiness Assessment and Preparation (formal report)
• Organizational Change Support (documented change management plan)
• Regulatory Compliance Support (A11/130,GPRA, GISRA)
• ICH Gold Plated Branding

Benefits:

The benefit of the combined services offerings are the sum total of the prior four line items at $60k discount. This is the best value for an organization who is looking to eliminate the risk associated with EA and IT Capital Planning. This program is not for everyone. The ICH reserves the right to assess an organizes commitment to this program before award is made due to the commitment of ICH resources to the success of this program.

• Improved adaptability of enterprise architectures through formal methods, mentoring, education, and shared best practices
• Aids in system interoperability by tying systems requirements to secure and interoperable solution sets (suites of products and services)
• Increases efficiency and efficacy of technology research and validation by providing a formalized architecture methodology and tools that support the systems engineering process
• Provides means of technology insertion by predicting the impact of new components on the baseline system. Most failures could be averted if the engineers where aware of the combinitorics
• Provides a technology neutral venue for standards/industry groups, ISVs, testing labs, integrators and domain practitioners can collaborate on the validation of domain architecture models, thereby integrating the natural IT Value Chain.