GSA Awards Email as a Service BPA: The long awaited Email as a Service BPA was awarded by GSA to 17 vendors this week. The potential total value of projects under the GSA program is $2.5 billion, over two years with 5 option years. Included in the BPA are email, office automation, records management, and migration and integration services. Of the 17 vendors awarded contracts under the BPA 16 can be effectively classified as systems integrators who work through their teaming partners to provide cloud services to government agencies and four are small businesses. Absent from the BPA are highly visible cloud providers such as Google and Microsoft who will be available to agencies via the partnership mechanism. Read more here.
DISA RFI on Cloud Brokerage: In addition to the currently pending RFI on cloud brokerage released by GSA with responses due September 7th, DISA, who has taken on the role as the DoD Cloud Broker, is also seeking industry input on available business models and/or deployment solutions to facilitate the Agency’s ability to perform cloud broker functions to achieve Information Technology (IT) efficiencies, reliability, interoperability, and improvement in secure end-to-end performance through the acquisition and management of cloud services. Responses to this RFI are due September 17th. See more information here.
nCircle Releases Federal Info Security Survey: nCircle today announced results of the nCircle 2012 Federal Information Security Initiatives Trend Study. The company surveyed over 100 respondents in the federal IT security community, including senior management, IT operations, security professionals, and risk and audit managers from government agencies and contractor organizations. See the press release and survey highlights here.
Michael Hettinger is VP for the Public Sector Innovation Group (PSIG) at SIIA. Follow his PSIG tweets at @SIIAPSIG.