Jane Edwards
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to acquire enterprise cloud computing services through a contract vehicle managed by the National Institutes of Health’s national information technology acquisition and assessment center.
VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the initiative is part of the department’s efforts to update its information technology infrastructure through migration of data to the cloud environment.
The Office of Management and Budget authorized NITAAC to serve as a federal agent to manage three government-wide contracts that defense and civilian agencies could use to procure IT platforms and services.
These contract vehicles include the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3, CIO-SP3 Small Business and CIO-Commodities and Solutions contracts.
VA stated in a FedBizOpps sources sought notice in April the four objectives of its plan to adopt cloud platforms.
These goals include the need to update and maintain VA’s network infrastructure, implement cloud services that comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, consolidate data centers and merge electronic communications into a unified internet protocol-based network for voice, data and video communications.
