10 Companies Vie For Massive Department Of The Interior Cloud Project

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kathy Kim.

The U.S. Department of the Interior chose 10 IT companies, including IBM (NYSE:IBM), Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T (NYSE:T), to compete for a massive, $10 billion cloud computing project. The Department of the Interior said the cloud migration project will be split into 10 IDIQ (indefinite delivery indefinite quantity) contracts that are each worth up to $1 billion. The 10 competing vendors selected by the department are IBM, Verizon, AT&T, Aquilent, Autonomic Resources, CGI, Global Technology Resources, Lockheed Martin, Smartronix and Unisys.

IBM already has been awarded one of the 10 contracts, which is a 10-year cloud hosting service deal. "We’re thrilled because these don’t come along every day and it’s a recognition of our cloud, past performance and technical expertise," said Andy Maner, managing partner of IBM Global Services. "It’s a real advantage for us because we are one of the few that can position seven of the tracks to do transformational projects of a large infrastructure."…

The Department of the Interior was unavailable for comment. However, according to a department blog post, the individual contracts will be awarded through "task orders" for each project following one-off competitions between the 10 selected finalists. The DOI said the first project is for SAP (NYSE:SAP) application hosting. Additional services will include virtual machines, storage, database hosting, secure file transfers, Web hosting, and development and test environments…

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