The Department of the Treasury released its cloud acquisition roadmap Sept. 15, a plan that includes an enterprisewide cloud it is looking to award in fiscal year 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The department wrote that it needs an enterprise cloud in part because components across Treasury are moving forward with their own cloud solution, an approach it wrote wasn\u2019t cost-effective. Treasury wrote that its \u201cdesire\u201d is to \u201cminimize the number of cloud acquisitions across Treasury by sizing them for the enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis scattered approach, while offering varying degrees of agility for individual customers, ignores opportunities for cost reduction through service deduplication and consolidated procurement actions,\u201d Treasury wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It estimated the value of the its full and open competition contract to be at least $1 billion, with repricing in year three for years five through eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The goal of the contract is to \u201cdevelop an enterprise acquisition that provides the full suite of products, services and professional labor support for cloud solutions across multiple [cloud service providers].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The department wrote that it wants its enterprise cloud to include the full suite of AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle cloud services, in addition to the ability to add a new CSP to the platform. A hybrid, multicloud environment will allow the different Treasury components to have \u201cmaximum flexibility in meeting their requirements.\u201d Treasury also wrote that it has seen a 30 percent increase in cloud use throughout the department year-over-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The contract, dubbed T-Cloud, won\u2019t be awarded for a few years. Treasury\u2019s request for information will be released in fiscal 2020, followed by the statement of objectives and request for comment in fiscal 2021. Treasury is currently doing market research and drafting the RFI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Treasury\u2019s shared-service approach to the contract was influenced by the drawn-out timeline of cloud solution procurements. With the technology quickly evolving in such a rapidly changing space, long delays can minimize any technological benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe acquisition cycle time for IT and cloud infrastructure services are lengthy processes and occasionally negate many of the just-in-time benefits associated with cloud services,\u201d Treasury wrote. \u201cAs such, Treasury will pursue a shared-service cloud infrastructure model in order to capture Treasury-wide efficiencies in access, contracting and security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also plans to procure several \u201cbridge contracts\u201d for cloud services. The document states that these contracts will be three to four years long and will be recompetes of Microsoft and Amazon reseller contracts. The contracts are meant to \u201censure continuity of operations\u201d over the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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