Acquisition Resources
The following table provides links to information on individual Acquisition Vehicles, Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS), and Government Cloud Service Providers.
Acquisition Vehicles
Acquisition Vehicle
Blanket Purchase Agreement
Blanket Purchase Agreement
Government Cloud Service Providers
Government Cloud Service Provider
Acquisition Vehicles
Department of Interior (DOI), Foundation Cloud Hosting Services (FCHS)
General Services Administration (GSA), 8(a) STARS III
In addition to the general IT services scope, GSA 8(a) STARS III GWAC includes two focused scope sub-areas: Emerging Technologies (ET) and OCONUS Place of Performance.
General Services Administration (GSA), Alliant 2
Alliant 2 CAF CAP Memo
General Services Administration (GSA), Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS)
General Services Administration (GSA), Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), Special Item Number (SIN) 518210C- Cloud Computing and Cloud Related IT Professional Services
Using GSA, MAS, SIN 518210C authorized ordering activities can acquire commercial cloud computing services that meet the definition of "cloud" per the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-145 "The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing." This includes service models (i.e., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment models (i.e., private cloud, community cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud), and the 5 essential characteristics of cloud (i.e., on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, measured service).
Using GSA, MAS, SIN 518210C authorized ordering activities can acquire cloud related IT professional services that support the adoption and utilization of commercial cloud services in the areas of assessment, preparation, refactoring, migration, integration, application development, or governance.
General Services Administration (GSA), VETS 2
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SEWP Surcharge
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Chief Information Officer-Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS)
On-Premise Model: IT commodities and products are deployed on-site either within the Government site or a Contractor site. In this model, additional enabling professional services may include provisioning, deployment, installations, warranty and maintenance, engineering and assessment studies, and training.
Managed Services Model: IT commodities are deployed via managed services and the cloud (e.g., Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS)) where the IT commodity service is managed through a Service Level Agreement (SLA) and is based on a subscription model.
Cap on the NIH Contract Access Fee (NCAF) for CIO-CS
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3)
NIH, CIO-SP3 encompasses ten technical areas: IT services for biomedical research, health sciences, and healthcare; Chief Information Officer (CIO) support; imaging; outsourcing; IT Operations and Maintenance (O&M); integration services; critical infrastructure protection and Information Assurance (IA); digital government; Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); and software development.
Using NIH CIO-SP3 authorized ordering activities can acquire cloud services (e.g., Software as a Service, cloud computing) as part of an IT solution to meet technical area requirements.
Fee Reduction and Cap on the NIH Contract Access Fee (NCAF)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) Small Business
NIH, CIO-SP3 encompasses ten technical areas: IT services for biomedical research, health sciences, and healthcare; Chief Information Officer (CIO) support; imaging; outsourcing; IT Operations and Maintenance (O&M); integration services; critical infrastructure protection and Information Assurance (IA); digital government; Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); and software development.
Using NIH CIO-SP3 authorized ordering activities can acquire cloud services (e.g., Software as a Service, cloud computing) as part of an IT solution to meet technical area requirements.
Fee Reduction and Cap on the NIH Contract Access Fee (NCAF)
Blanket Purchase Agreements
General Services Administration (GSA), Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS)
Government Cloud Service Providers
Department of Defense (DoD), Cloud One
Department of Defense (DoD), Stratus Enterprise Cloud Services
General Services Administration (GSA), Cloud.gov
Other Services:
Enterprise Container Platform, Virtual Application Hosting
General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service Cloud Services (FCS)
Our COMET BPA vendor partners develop and modernize the FAS business systems in FCS, taking advantage of the guardrails, common tools, and shared services within the cloud ecosystem taking advantage of sound design patterns, standard practices, re-use frameworks, and a tried-and-true set of common capabilities. This ultimately improves the speed to market and the interoperability between the systems developed by our multiple vendor partners.
FCS provides value through its secure and flexible architecture, however, the most important aspect comes in the form of professional services - developing and maintaining the shared services and business systems as a cloud ecosystem.
General Services Administration (GSA), Pages
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Cloud Hosting Solutions (CHS)
Other Services:
Tableau, Sensor Processing, Off-Site Backup, High Performance Computing/High Throughput Computing (HPC/HTC), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Servers
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Digital Infrastructure Services Center (DISC)
Other Services:
Commercial Cloud Access Point (CAP), Container Platform, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Mainframe, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Social Networking Solutions, Virtual Application Hosting