On the heels of an industry day held on Nov. 18, the General Services Administration released a working draft of terms and conditions for adding a Special Item Number (SIN) to IT Schedule 70 specifically for cloud services.
The agency is asking the private sector and other stakeholders to review the draft document and submit feedback as they get closer to creating the new SIN, likely in the spring of 2015.
Read more about the industry day and early factors for consideration.
Specifically, GSA is looking for comment on six questions:
■ Do the Terms and Conditions appear flexible, fair and competitive, while retaining the intent of having vetted cloud services?
■ Do the Terms and Conditions support the ability for customers to easily locate and distinguish cloud computing services from other IT services and conveniently view services by relevant criteria?
■ Will the Terms and Conditions support a broad range of potential industry partners, including cloud service providers and resellers, small and large businesses?
■ Do the Terms and Conditions address the industry best practices and standards?
■ Are there additional areas that we need to address in the terms and conditions?
■ Does the Factor for Evaluation provide a clear and straightforward manner of evaluating cloud computing services?
The full draft document can be found here. Comments and questions can be sent to the GSA at cloud-sin-rfi@gsa.gov through Jan. 15.
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