Jane Edwards
A new Deltek report says federal agencies spent a total of $28.3 million on cloud platforms and services from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2017 through the National Institutes of Health“™s Chief Information Officer IT Commodities and Solutions governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle.
NIH spent $18.8 million on cloud platforms over the past three fiscal years, followed by the National Archives and Records Administration at $3.6 million and the U.S. Navy at $2.7 million, Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, wrote in a blog entry posted Monday.
NIH allocated approximately $6.4 million for Oracle“™s managed cloud services in support of the Department of Health and Human Services and at least $4 million for cloud-based capabilities from Adobe.
NARA“™s cloud spending focused on managed services and enterprise infrastructure-as-a-service/platform-as-a-service offerings in support of website hosting efforts for the presidential library and museum.
The Agriculture Department spent approximately $42,000 on Amazon Web Services“™ IaaS offerings in support of the chief financial officer and CIO offices, while USDA’s Farm Services Agency allocated $2.4 million on cloud migration development efforts.
The Navy“™s spending on cloud service management work with Red River Computer Co. reached $2.6 million, Rossino wrote.
He also noted that Oracle recorded $6.5 million in total earnings from CIO-CS cloud contracts, followed by Adobe at $5.4 million and AWS at $1.5 million.
In 2015, NIH awarded 65 companies spots on the five-year, $20 billion CIO-CS contract that seeks to replace the Electronic Commodities Store III contract and provide information technology support services across the federal government.
