DoD, GSA consider new contract vehicle for commercial cloud
September 4, 2015
Grazed from FederalNewsRadio. Author: Jared Serbu.
The General Services Administration and the Defense Department are working together on a possible new contract vehicle to help federal agencies buy commercial cloud computing services.
Nothing’s final yet, but the talks, between GSA’s Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS) and the Defense Information Systems Agency could result in a multiple award contract solely for cloud, perhaps similar to GSA’s Networx contract, which lets agencies buy telecommunications services with pre-existing service level agreements…
“The idea, very simply is this: is cloud sufficiently defined as a market? And is it sufficiently different that, like Networx, it needs a contract that’s focused on the types of terms and conditions, the bidding and everything else you need to make it work right?” Mark Day, GSA’s deputy assistant commissioner for ITS said Wednesday at AFCEA’s annual joint warfighter IT day. “We and DISA are increasingly focusing on how we assess that.”…
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