DHS signs Cumulus cloud contract with Google
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By
Ross Wilkers
The Homeland Security Department has almost wrapped up awards for the hyperscaler-focused portion of this centralized cloud program with Microsoft's contract still under construction.
The Homeland Security Department has signed off on the third out of four planned awards under Cumulus, a centralized avenue for acquiring commercial cloud computing services across the entire organization.
DHS on Monday awarded a potential five-year, $875.6 million contract to Google’s public sector arm for a full suite of cloud offerings. The finalization of this award follows similar moves by DHS in June and August, which respectively involved contracts with Amazon Web Services and Oracle.
Microsoft is the lone intended awardee still working out its portion of Cumulus with DHS, which first announced the contract’s framework in April with the intention of entering into contracts with all four major hyperscalers before the federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.
Each award under Cumulus covers an initial one-year base period and up to four option years.
The department set up Cumulus to mix competitive and non-competitive awards across all aspects of the commercial cloud including infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service.
After DHS finalizes the contract with Microsoft, the department will then work on creating a separate multiple-award competition to support the Cumulus effort.