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We\u2019ve done a lot of conversations, we\u2019ve done a lot of work with the agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ely explained that GSA now has officers designated to work with specific agencies on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/acquisition\/gsa\/2015\/03\/03\/networx-contract-vehicle-gets-three-year-extension\/\" target=_blank> transition from Networx to EIS<\/a>, which is required to take place by 2020. The agency also hosted a \u201cmeet your EIS vendor\u201d day in May 2018 to help agencies learn more about their options under the new contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA part of this is transition, but what we\u2019re really trying to focus on \u2014 and we\u2019ve made tremendous progress, as I mentioned, since last July \u2014 is the actual transformation and modernization,\u201d said Ely. \u201cWe\u2019ve built in a lot of opportunity for modernization and transformation even, because we know the business we\u2019re talking about today is going to look very differently 15 years from now, 10 years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/smr\/acquisition-smr\/2015\/07\/02\/gsa-entices-disa-as-eis-partner\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/isr-alfred-rivera-disa-q-a01jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">GSA entices DISA as EIS partner<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">DISA is also preparing to release SETI, an enterprise engineering contract.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave Young, senior vice president for strategic government at CenturyLink, said that agencies should be thinking of the transition as something more than a journey to modernization and instead see it as a lifestyle change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that prior contracts had the good luck of syncing up with advances in technology, so that as a new technology came on the market, the contract for the old technology expired. But the pace of technological innovation is speeding up and, rather than create shorter contracts, GSA extended the EIS contract to 15 years with added flexibility for modernization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cReally what we have to do is get in a new culture, a new rhythm around how we embrace technology, how we use technology, and it\u2019s not through contract change anymore. That\u2019s how we viewed modernization in the past, through contract change. So we\u2019ve got to break that mold and move more toward understanding technology and how technology is adapting,\u201d said Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we built into EIS was that changes that technology and modernization would demand can be made at the task-order level and not the contract level,\u201d agreed Ely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, last time the government went through a telecom contract transition, extensions on the deadline for those transitions \u201cleft a lot of money on the table,\u201d according to Ely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we have said, and we\u2019re sticking to it, is that if we adjust your transition and an agency, for whatever reason, can\u2019t even do partial transformation, the transition, no modernization and extension are off the table,\u201d said Ely. &#8220;We\u2019re very aware that that is an issue and we are looking at how we can have that conversation with 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