AT&T Government Solutions business unit has been awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for a suite of cloud computing products and services to government agencies by US General Services Administration (GSA).
Under this five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quality (IDIQ) contract, AT&T will provide federal government agencies with cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products and services.
The company will provide cloud services to federal government agencies in AT&T operated data centres, located in geographically diverse locations, which are directly attached to its IP backbone.
Government agencies will be able to purchase cloud computing services through Apps.gov, a new online purchasing portal that allows agencies to purchase on-demand cloud services without a formal request for proposal, helping condense procurement cycles.
AT&T Government Solutions senior vice president Thomas Harvey said cloud computing services provide a unique benefit to the government, allowing agencies to reduce capital expenses and increase productivity.
"Through Apps.gov, government agencies will soon have access to AT&T cloud products and services that can help drive innovation, improve efficiency, and realise vital savings," Harvey said.
The company said that its family of cloud computing services, combined with its hosting and managed applications portfolio, offers government agencies a continuum of fully managed application services or user-managed hosting services, delivered from the network cloud on demand and at scale.
AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service is a storage-on-demand offer provides federal agencies with control over the storage, distribution, and retrieval of their data from any location, anytime, using any Web-enabled device.
In addition, its Synaptic Compute as a Service provides government agencies an option to ‘pay-as-they-go,’ enabling them to obtain access to virtual servers without a long-term commitment, upfront, or termination fee.
