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June 11, 2018 By AMK

Pentagon’s 2nd multibillion cloud contract to be bid in coming months

Much of the oxygen in the federal contracting community has gone to the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract in recent months, but the Pentagon is very close to bidding out a second major cloud contract that may rival it in size.

Defense officials said last month that the Defense Enterprise Office Solution acquisition, valued at approximately $8 billion, could be bid out later this month, with an expected award issued by the second quarter of 2019. The contract will have a five-year base period with five one-year options.

DEOS is the Pentagon’s attempt to “unify and modernize” some of its legacy systems, including enterprise email, collaboration services, voice and video services, messaging, content management and other productivity capabilities for more than 3.5 million users.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/06/pentagons-second-multibillion-cloud-contract-be-bid-coming-months/148733/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition planning, cloud, DISA, DoD, legacy technology, Pentagon

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