Enterprise Data Ecosystem

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is seeking information from qualified respondents regarding its desire to evolve and materially mature its Enterprise Data Ecosystem. The Enterprise Data Ecosystem is a foundational component of our organization’s planned transition to a unified enterprise electronic health record platform (an active effort) and the modernization of its clinical, operational, financial, and research analytics environments, foundational support to our cancer care and research missions.

Roswell Park does not assume that a single vendor will provide all required components of our future ecosystem. Respondents should propose an architecture that combines their respective products and services with partner technologies where appropriate, making ownership and accountability explicit while avoiding unnecessary dependencies on a single proprietary layer.

Purpose of the RFI

The purpose of this RFI is to assist Roswell Park in:

• Refining its future-state enterprise data architecture.
• Understanding available technology platforms and implementation approaches.
• Identifying potential strategic partners.
• Understanding how proposed solutions would integrate with a future unified EHR platform.
• Understanding the roles of data virtualization, data ingestion, cloud platforms, enterprise data warehouses, lake houses, semantic layers, analytics tools, research platforms, and AI technologies, and how they technically and functionally integrate and cooperate to form an Enterprise Data Ecosystem.
• Determining how existing investments should be preserved, incorporated, or decommissioned.
• Developing requirements and evaluation criteria for a potential future competitive procurement.
• Understanding estimated cost, internal and external, to implement and maintain the described ecosystem.

Respondents must clearly identify:

• Each proposed product and technology component.
• The vendor responsible for each component.
• Whether the capability is native, partner-provided, third-party, or custom-developed.
• The contractual and support relationship among participating vendors.
• The party responsible for end-to-end solution architecture.
• The party responsible for implementation and integration.
• The party responsible for ongoing operations and support.
• How issues spanning multiple products or vendors will be governed and resolved.

Requirements

• Data Virtualization and Logical Data Models
• Medallion Architecture
• Reusable Data Products
• Enterprise Data Warehouse and Analytics
• Power BI Integration
• Enterprise Data, Metric, and Research Metadata Catalog
• Reporting Modernization and Self-Service
• Data Governance and Security Controls
• Legacy Clinical Data Archive
• Legacy EHR Data Conversion and Migration
• Role-Based Workspaces
• Research Data Environment
• Computing and Data Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Interoperability and Integration
• Performance Monitoring
• Multi-Vendor Governance
• Licensing Model and Preliminary Costing Information
• Staffing Plan
• Additional Cost Submission Requirements

Submissions must be submitted via email to Rob Henschel @ rob.henschel@roswellpark.org by Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 2:00pm EST.

Roswell Park will accept questions from Respondents regarding this RFI from the date of issuance through Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Respondents must reference the RFI number and title in the subject line of their email. As part of Roswell Park’s response to questions, ALL questions, and the associated answers, will be shared collectively with all Respondents via issuance of a written Addendum to this RFI.

Roswell Park understands that final pricing cannot be established through an RFI, but requests that respondents provide estimated planning estimates for initial implementation cost range, annual recurring cost range, major assumptions, and cost drivers over a ten-year planning horizon.