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Subsidiary of the large IT and business-process outsourcing company CGI has secured a contract to host cloud services for the US Department of the Interior, agency of the federal government.

 

The company, called CGI Federal, is the first large cloud provider to receive FedRAMP provisional authorization to operate for a government-specific community cloud. It will support DOI-wide cloud hosting, data center consolidation and IT infrastructure tasks.

 

CGI will deliver a range of services for storage, secure file transfers, virtual machines, database and web hosting, as well as development and test environment hosting.

 

Toni Townes-Whitley, senior VP for CGI's civilian agency progams, said the company's services would enable Interior to focus on its mission.

 

“Now organizations within DOI have access to a very flexible contract vehicle to help them easily procure infrastructure solutions that will cost-effectively and securely meet emerging needs and new challenges for many years to come,” Townes-Whitley said.

 

Today CGI provides cloud services to a host of federal and state agencies under the General Services Administration's Infrastructure as a Service Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).

 

The company was awarded under GSA’s Email as a Service BPA (ceiling of US$2.5bn) to provide email and records management services from the cloud. DOI will join a list of federal agencies that have contracted with CGI for cloud and data center consolidation services.

 

These agencies include the General Services Administration, the Department of Homeland Security DHS, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC, the Federal Trade Commission FTC, and the Department of Health and Human Services.