Elastic ERU Software and Professional Services

Overview

Software, Web & Mobile Development

Columbia, South Carolina, United StatesPosted 13 days agoDeadline: May 21st, 2026

Fit Score

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SUMMARY

Seeking vendors to supply Elastic Enterprise software subscriptions and deliver comprehensive professional services for security architecture, integration, and monitoring over a three-year term.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

Must be an authorized reseller of Elastic software at the time of bid submission
Must be authorized to sell Elastic Enterprise (Enterprise Advanced) subscriptions
Must be authorized to resell Elastic Solution Architect professional services
Must provide a VPAT
Must provide a HECVAT
Must provide a SOC2 audit report or comparable third-party information technology security assessment
Must comply with USC Digital Accessibility Policy (WCAG Level A and AA version 2.1)
Must possess a USC User ID to submit an offer online
Must provide documentation of authorized reseller status

BUDGET

Estimate

$150,000 – $500,000

CONTRACT DURATION

60 months

TIMELINE

Questions must be received by May 7th, 2026.

Offers must be submitted by May 21st, 2026.

Award will be posted on May 28th, 2026.

Contract start date is estimated for June 9th, 2026.

QUESTION DEADLINE

May 7th, 2026

Issuing Agency

University Of South Carolina

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DESCRIPTION

An agency in South Carolina is seeking bids for the provision of Elastic Enterprise software subscriptions and associated professional services. The required Elastic Enterprise software must support capabilities such as distributed search and analytics, hot/warm/cold data tiering, Index Lifecycle Management (ILM), security telemetry ingestion and analysis, Elastic Common Schema (ECS) support, threat detection utilizing KQL, ESQL, and EQL, security investigations and case management, role-based access control, TLS encryption in transit, and SAML/OIDC identity integration.

Professional services under this contract include designing a production-ready Elastic Security architecture, configuring deployment tiers and ILM policies, engineering data ingestion pipelines for up to ten security data sources, validating ingestion throughput (up to 500 GB per day), ECS normalization, setting up TLS encryption and RBAC, integrating with university SSO via SAML or OIDC, deploying and tuning at least fifty detection rules, migrating current security monitoring use cases, and conducting performance benchmarking and validation. The contract will be in effect for a period of three years. Questions regarding this RFP must be submitted by May 7, 2026.

Source attribution

This Settle analysis is based on the issuing organization’s public RFP listing.