“It’s been clear for some time that most agencies were not going to meet the March 31 deadline of moving at least 90% of their telecommunications inventory to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract…”
“Of the 17 large agencies, nine have met the goal of moving between 50% and 90% of their inventory to EIS. That goal, however, was for March 31, 2021…”
“Amy Haseltine, the deputy assistant commissioner for acquisitions in the Office of the IT Category in the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said along with a host of interagency meetings, specifically with senior procurement executives, her office is bringing agencies through the RAFT — risk assessment for transition — analysis.
‘It’s a project that GSA put together to leverage data analytics to help our agencies understand where they are at a point in time, and what it’s actually going to take to get where they need to go. What makes this so cool is the data analytics that we use really were derived in partnership with our industry partners on the EIS vehicle. We did some consultations with them, did some pilot testing, and ask them some foundational questions like, “if you have this many TDM lines, how many months is it going to take you to get to wherever you need to be?”’ Haseltine said during a recent panel discussion sponsored by Granite Telecommunications and Capitol Technology University, an excerpt of which was played on Ask the CIO. ‘That information from our industry partners is vital because it helps give our agency customers insight into what that time is.’…” Read the full article here.
Source: GSA using data, analytics to push agencies to accelerate move to EIS – By Jason Miller, March 25, 2022. Federal News Network.
