The General Services Administration's 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) contract that replaces Networx, will serve as the government’s primary vehicle for telecommunications related services, including high-speed Internet, government hosting services, security encryption protocols, and many more products and services.
ACT-IAC is the first trade organization to work with all ten of the companies that have been awarded a component of the EIS contract through the EIS Network Modernization Work Group. The group desires to be a trusted voice and advisor to agencies and industry for the execution phase of GSA’s EIS Transition by building a collaborative forum for leaders in government (OMB, GSA, GAO, and Congress) and industry along with representatives from each contract winners to open the channels of communication and produce a set of independent best practices that can be implemented in a multi-phased approach.
As a precursor to EIS, ACT-IAC’s NS2020 Working Group served as a liaison between GSA, Government and Industry to drive collaborative conversations around NS2020 timelines, vehicle requirements, and transition. According to GSA, nine of the 12 ACT-IAC recommendations have been implemented. More information here.
Press Coverage from August 2019 Networks and Telecommunications COI meeting featuring Allen Hill, Director, Office of Telecommunication Services, General Services Administration
This case study highlights GSA’s contracting approach for the 15-year, $50 billion government-wide Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program to provide federal agencies with mission-critical telecommunications infrastructure and IT services and support their IT Modernization efforts. The approach epitomized government-industry collaboration including three GSA and ACT-IAC coordinated “EIS Information Exchange” sessions.
In addition to facilitating the President’s Management Agenda vision, GSA needed to replace the expiring Networx contracts, which provided telecommunications and related IT infrastructure services to virtually every Federal government department and agency and is foundational to the government’s IT.
Imagine Nation ELC 2018 Presentation
The Oxygen of Technology - The Network
ACT-IAC White Paper: EIS: High Quality Proposal Timeline
Developed by the ACT-IAC Networks and Telecommunications Community of Interest
Date Released: September 25, 2018
EIS: Alternatives to Full Service Option
Developed by the ACT-IAC Networks and Telecommunications Community of Interest
Date Released: September 25, 2018
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