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March 7, 2019 By AMK

What you don’t know about the Pentagon’s DEOS contract

While the Pentagon’s high-profile Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) procurement is stalled over legal action, contracting officials are close to bidding out its other multibillion cloud procurement, the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract.

Officials are currently reviewing feedback from industry through a draft solicitation for DEOS the General Services Administration and Defense Department released last month.

Depending upon responses, GSA — which, in a change announced last fall, is running the procurement — will soon issue a second draft solicitation or simply bid DEOS out.

Yet, DEOS is only the first phase of the Defense Department’s three-phase Enterprise Collaboration and Productivity Services, or ECAPS.

According to the draft solicitation, the DEOS portion of ECAPS, referred to as “capability set 1,” will cover an enterprise productivity suite, messaging, content management and collaboration services. A GSA spokesperson clarified to Nextgov that capability sets 2 and 3 will be met through “future acquisitions,” meaning they will not be bid out under DEOS.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2019/02/what-you-dont-know-about-pentagons-deos-contract/155155/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: cloud, Defense Enterprise Office Solutions, DEOS, DISA, DoD, ECAPS, Enterprise Collaboration and Productivity Services, GSA, JEDI, Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, Pentagon

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