IT Sourcing Event Template

The purpose of this RFP is to solicit offers and select multiple Vendors that can provide enterprise Generative AI (GenAI) platforms, secure Model API access ("Model API") to the Vendors' Frontier Models, and related services, including implementation, integration, adoption, AI literacy, and role-based upskilling, for use by authorized users and authorized State applications. The State is soliciting offers only from Vendors that own the Frontier Models offered through the proposed GenAI Platform and Model APIs.

The North Carolina Department of Information Technology (NCDIT or Department) oversees IT services for the State of North Carolina and is the primary IT service provider for state government agencies. It also provides services for local governments and educational institutions.

The State intends to procure multiple integrated GenAI offerings consisting of platforms, Model API access, and related services that support responsible adoption, workforce readiness, and inform future procurement decisions.

Describe the proposed GenAI Offering(s), including the user-facing platform, administrative capabilities, secure Model API access, available implementation and integration services, AI literacy and role-based upskilling services, main features, common public-sector use cases, and how the offering can improve State Government agency operations.

**Required** specification areas include:

• Security specifications for Vendor Offerings, including GovRAMP or FedRAMP status
• Architecture diagrams, solution roadmap, identity and access management, and integration approach with the State's Microsoft 365 environment
• Disaster recovery and business continuity, application management, and accessibility
• Data Sovereignty: Vendor must certify that all data is physically stored and physically processed within data centers located in the United States (US) or other locations expressly permitted by State policy and does not leave these physical locations.
• Frontier Model, core generative AI and multimodal functionality, and enterprise productivity, knowledge, and integration functionality
• Agentic, automation, developer, and domain-specific functionality
• User access, identity and administration

**Offer opening date:** 11/30/2026 @ 2:00PM Eastern Time

Offer valid for one hundred twenty (120) days from date of offer opening unless otherwise stated.

The term shall be three (3) year(s). The State retains the option to extend the Agreement with two (2) optional one (1) year renewals at its sole discretion.

This solicitation will establish an indefinite quantity contract between the Vendor and the State. This shall be a Mandatory Statewide Term Contract for the use of State Agencies as defined in N.C.G.S. 143B-1320. This contract shall be and operate as a multiple Vendor contract.

Offers from third-party Vendors providing services built on top of Frontier Models will be deemed non-responsive and rejected. Offers from Resellers, also known as Distribution Partners, also will be deemed non-responsive and rejected.

Protest deadline: 15 days after award.