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The growing importance of GWACs -- FCW

One of the government's most popular methods for buying emerging technologies and critical IT services faces significant challenges in an ever-changing marketplace

GSA plans one-stop shop cloud marketplace -- FCW

GSA plans one-stop shop cloud marketplace -- Washington Technology

GSA plans cloud marketplace -- GCN

GSA explains lowered DEOS price tag -- FCW

By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration worked with the Defense Department and vendors to reconfigure the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions Blanket Purchase Agreement that resulted in a dramatically lower ceiling value from the initial award, according to the agency's manager of the contract. GSA initially awarded DEOS, a 10-year contract to provide Microsoft's productivity suite Office 365 to DOD, to General Dynamics IT in 2019. The ceiling value of the award was $7.6 billion. The solicitation was revised amid protests and the contract was re-awarded to GDIT last month with a $4.4 billion ceiling. At the time of the the re-award, GSA declined comment, citing the post-award protest period. With that period passed, officials explained the revised price tag.

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GSA sketches next steps for CEOS, Polaris and EIS -- FCW

By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration is continuing to develop a civilian version of the Pentagon's Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) blanket purchase agreement for cloud-based productivity tools. The Defense Department's contact vehicle supplies Microsoft 365 cloud-based email, productivity and communications apps. A GSA official explained in a Dec. 9 virtual event hosted by AFFIRM that a Civilian Enterprise Office Solutions (CEOS) contract requires a different approach. "Agencies are much different in how they’re federated compared to the DOD," Allen Hill, acting deputy assistant commissioner for category management in the Federal Acquisition Service's Office of Information Technology Category, said. "That takes more planning. You can't just put in an acquisition vehicle and everybody gets in line. We’re taking a more strategic approach of what types of services to include in CEOS."