“The General Services Administration is shifting the federal acquisition approach away from government-owned hardware toward as-a-Service models for enterprise IT infrastructure to meet the Biden administration’s climate goals.
Sustainability requirements are being added to existing and forthcoming contracts including the Ascend cloud marketplace blanket purchase agreement (BPA), which is in the early stages of being written, and the Alliant 3 governmentwide acquisition contract, in the market research phase…”
“’A greater reliance on this industry provided infrastructure through cloud and other as-a-Service solutions inherently consolidates and shrinks the overall footprint of those government data centers and reduces the government’s consumption of raw materials and energy,’ said Laura Stanton, assistant commissioner of the Office of IT Category and governmentwide manager, during a GSA summit on Thursday…”
“The Ascend BPA will help agencies increase cloud adoption by offering common, core cloud capabilities and reducing their carbon footprints in the process.
‘We’re taking that a step further,’ Stanton said. ‘We’re in the early stages, through this BPA, of writing the environmental directives related to carbon pollution-free energy for data centers and will provide those cloud capabilities.’…” Read the full article here.
Source: GSA updating IT acquisition approach to reduce energy use – By Dave Nyczepir, April 7, 2022. FedScoop.
