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General Services Administration is continuing to develop a civilian version of the Pentagon's Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) blanket purchase agreement for cloud-based productivity tools. The Defense Department's contact vehicle supplies Microsoft 365 cloud-based email, productivity and communications apps. A GSA official explained in a Dec. 9 virtual event hosted by
AFFIRM that a Civilian Enterprise Office Solutions (CEOS) contract requires a different approach.
"Agencies are much different in how they’re federated compared to the DOD,"
Allen Hill, acting deputy assistant commissioner for category management in the Federal Acquisition Service's Office of Information Technology Category, said. "That takes more planning. You can't just put in an acquisition vehicle and everybody gets in line. We’re taking a more strategic approach of what types of services to include in CEOS."