DHS wraps up Oracle's Cumulus cloud contract
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Ross Wilkers
The Department of Homeland Security has two more hyperscaler awards to finalize before it can move ahead on a separate competition for this enterprise cloud program.
The Homeland Security Department has entered into the second out of four planned awards under Cumulus, a centralized mechanism for acquiring commercial cloud computing services across the entire organization.
Oracle’s portion of the potential five-year contract has a ceiling value of $567.9 million, DHS said in a Friday notice to Sam.gov. This follows DHS’ finalization in June of the award to Amazon Web Services, which is eligible for up to $2.5 billion under Cumulus.
DHS first laid out its intended timeline for wrapping up each Cumulus contract with all four of the hyperscalers, with awards to Google Cloud and Microsoft still in-the-works. The department originally pegged the end of the calendar year’s second quarter as its deadline for finalizing each contract.
Each award under Cumulus will cover a one-year base period and up to four option years.
Cumulus is designed to have a blend of competitive and non-competitive awards across all aspects of commercial cloud including infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service.
After DHS finalizes each hyperscaler contract, the department will then work on creating a separate multiple-award competition to support the Cumulus effort.