Homeland Security Today: In a government cloud market abuzz with concern about large, long awards to single-service providers and a perception that Amazon is dominating, the FBI is exploring a move to the cloud for its expiring $30 billion, eight-year enterprise information technology contract.
The Information Technology Supplies and Support Services (ITSSS) contract is a blanket purchase agreement on the General Services Administration’s government-wide IT multiple-award Schedule 70. It was let in 2010 to 46 companies in relative secrecy, according to a Dec. 21 report on Nextgov. On Nov. 9, the FBI issued notice that the deal will expire in October 2018.
Now, the FBI has asked industry to answer questions designed to help it determine whether moving the work under the ITSSS to the cloud is feasible. “The program objectives are to acquire platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) offerings,” according to the request for information issued Feb. 16. Responses are due March 2.
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