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DOI Cloud Contracts

The Department of the Interior (DOI) awarded a 10-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract called Foundation Cloud Hosting Services (FCHS2). The contract provides Information Technology (IT) solutions to take full advantage of cloud computing benefits.

FCHS2 Contract details:

  • The period of performance is from 2024 to 2034
  • Multi-award with assisted acquisition services that include a facilitated planning solution and execution by DOI’s contracting team (you don’t need your own contracting officer)
  • Ceiling: $2B shared
  • All contract types: Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials, Labor Hour, Hybrids
  • Services include on demand, reserved instances or blend
  • Available to all federal, state, or other government organizations
  • Multiple Prime and Sub-Contractors providing a wide range of cloud service catalogs
  • Cloud-based Information Technology (IT) services:
    • Service models:
      • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
      • Platform as a Service (PaaS),
      • Software as a Service (SaaS), or Other
    • Deployment models:
      • Private,
      • Community,
      • Public,
      • Hybrid
  • Sponsored by our Office of the Chief Information Officer and FedRAMP liaison, ensuring a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.
  • FCHS2 requires all proposals include a three-part response to the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that (1) set metric baselines, (2) specify how these are measured, and (3) a penalty/remedy if not met.

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Customers

  • External customers are federal customers outside of the Department of the Interior (DOI) Agency.  External customers must follow the FCHS2 Assisted Acquisition Services process. 
  • Internal customers are DOI Programs, Offices, or Bureaus.  Internal customers should use to the DOI Intranet Cloud site.

FCHS2 Prime Contractors

 

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 FCHS2 Assisted Acquisition Benefits and Support Services

  • Streamlined DOI assisted acquisition of cloud-based Information Technology (IT) services
    • Help you finalize and refine requirements through pre-quote vendor showcases, one-on-one vendor Requests for Information (RFI) and Q&As
  • Benefits programs that know their desired outcome but don’t know how to get there
  • Accelerated contract award in months not years
    • Provides economies of scale for task orders adding to existing Cloud Service Providers
  • Services at pre-competed prices that can be negotiated lower
  • Saves you time by providing key cloud smart contract clauses and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • Ensures your cloud procurements are protected through FedRAMP level security and privacy clauses
  • Provides you with cloud solutions that meet Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements

Contracting Officer Support

  • Since it’s assisted acquisition, only DOI Contracting Officers can award task orders against the FCHS2 contracts. Ordering authority is not decentralized
  • DOI will work with you to refine your acquisition package (e.g. Statement of Work (SOW), Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), and justifications)
  • DOI charges a 4.9% fee to provide assisted acquisition support services to non-DOI agencies. The fee is applied to all task order funding
  • DOI does not charge any additional processing fees standard in Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs)

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)

Getting Started with FCHS2

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  • Begin Privacy Threshold/Impact Assessment 
  • Perform Information System Security Categorization (FIPS 199) 
  • Conduct market research to ensure FedRAMP certified services 
  • Determine timeline for contract award and project start requirements 
  • Confirm/Secure funding 

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Planing
  • Download and complete SOW and IGCE templates
  • Work with DOI contracting officers to finalize IGCE, SOW and entire acquisition package
  • Identify potential solutions, (optionally issue Request for Information (RFI))
  • Initiate FCHS2 request and execute Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA) between DOI and your agency 

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Procurement
  • Finalize acquisition package documents and submit to Contracting Office
  • Funding according to IGCE should be processing or complete
  • Contracting Officer submits Request for Quote/Proposal to the vendors
  • Conduct Q&A – respond to questions (if any) from vendors regarding requirements
  • RFQ closed and offers received
  • Complete technical evaluation of proposals
  • Determine unofficial selection and submit to Contracting Officer (Legal Reviews, etc.) 

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Award
  • Award contract, send selection notifications 
  • Kick-off session scheduled and deliverables timeline begins 
  • Agency coordinates with cloud service contractor to Assess and Authorize environments
  • Implement cloud solution
  • Agency COR coordinates invoicing, payment, and performance activities
  • Coordinate annual and optional renewals with DOI Contracting Officers

 

Key Dates - Timelines and Recurring Acquisition Due Dates

Dates, timelines and project milestones that you need to know:

  • Procurement Milestones Table
  • DOI exercises a financial system blackout annually to close one fiscal year and open the next. This generally begins the end of September through early October. If you are exercising a task order during the fourth quarter, coordinate with your Contracting Officer to ensure you meet closeout deadlines.

Current Customers Include

 

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