State Department Wants a Small Business to Manage Its Cloud Office

State Department Wants a Small Business to Manage Its Cloud Office

The State Department is looking for a contractor to support its centralized cloud management efforts and, ideally, wants a small business to fill the role.


While agencies across government have been moving to cloud services over the last 10 years—first under the Obama-era Cloud First policy, then under the Trump administration’s Cloud Smart—the State Department has seen particular value in the move, as its operations are spread across the globe.


“If the federal government is involved in activities overseas, the State Department is involved. … It’s not a simple mission set. And it varies depending on what country you’re in,” then-CIO Stuart McGuigan said at a January 2020 event. “Between cloud—the ability to scale up, scale down—and agile, the sweet spot of tech is moving to the sweet spot of the State Department.”


The Cloud Program Management Office was stood up two years ago to serve as the central organizing office for all of the department’s cloud efforts. In a sources sought notice posted to beta.SAM.gov, the office put out a call for prospective vendors to support these efforts.


“The office implements and sustains an enterprise cloud ecosystem to provide the full range of business solutions to end users and shared service providers leveraging multiple ‘best in breed’ commercial cloud vendors,” the notice states. “The office manages the development, delivery and operations of new and existing enterprise cloud services.”


The office achieves this by offering a variety of managed services, including cybersecurity, infrastructure and access to agencywide contracts.


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