CIA Issues Draft Solicitation for Next Step in Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Journey
Obtained by Nextgov, the draft RFP indicates C2E will be a multi-award commercial cloud computing contract with a five-year base period and two five-year options for a period of performance of up to 15 years. The draft RFP does not indicate an expected value, but the CIA estimated C2E would be worth “tens of billions” of dollars in contracting documents released last April.
C2E represents the next step in the intelligence community’s cloud journey. In 2013, the CIA—on behalf of the 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community—awarded a single cloud service provider, Amazon Web Services, a cloud contract worth $600 million. The intelligence community’s mission demands additional cloud services, which it now considers a proven technology.
“Cloud computing has proven to be transformational for IC consumers, increasing the speed at which new applications can be developed to support mission and improving the functionality and security of those applications,” according to additional CIA procurement documents obtained by Nextgov. “In response to mission demand since 2013, the IC’s portfolio of commercial cloud services has expanded by adding new services from the commercial domain, increasing compute and storage capacity, and acquiring services from multiple commercial vendors.”
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