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Homeland Security

Contract Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

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Contract Awards

Govplace Nabs $109M USCIS Commercial Cloud Award Govplace has been awarded a potential $109 million blanket purchase agreement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to provide access to on-demand, secure, scalable, flexible, and automated cloud computing environments to support a range of complex information technology systems and programs across the agency. Under the BPA, Govplace will provide access to a catalog of current and new FedRAMP-Authorized on-demand commercial cloud services providers for commercial cloud hosting services across the agency. MSA…

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