Ascend, part of GSA’s Cloud Marketplace vision, is a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement against the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Special Item Numbers 518210C cloud and cloud-related IT professional services and 54151S IT professional services that will be aimed at helping agencies simplify cloud acquisition while meeting specific cybersecurity requirements.
According to the draft performance work statement issued in May: “The Ascend BPA will focus on enabling support for both vertical (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and horizontal capabilities across the ecosystem and will provide more effective system integration and managed support services for the delivery of flexible, diverse, and secure cloud solutions.”
BPA Task Orders can be placed under one or all of the three independent primary pools identified by the government:
- Pool 1: infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service
- Pool 2: software-as-a-service
- Pool 3: cloud IT professional services
With the draft performance work statement issued in May and a market research request for information issued in July, GSA has stated they are gathering industry feedback and working on a draft request for quotations for Ascend that they hope to release in the second quarter of 2023…
