The agencywide blanket purchase agreement brings a streamlined procurement vehicle for licenses and other services from 70-plus vendors, of which Carahsoft is a sole distributor.

The agency has not yet determined the anticipated award dates, but is encouraging interested parties to respond to the documents.

GAO’s Shelby Oakley. Larry Allen discusses “ASCEND” Cloud BPA.

Awards within the Infrastructure-as-a-Service pool were originally slated for January, but new dates haven't been announced.

The agency is moving ahead with a plan to issue a Blanket Purchase Agreement for Phase I discovery work.

The agency plans to use a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement for mobile applications and microservices, as well as software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service operations.

Eleven companies are now part of this relatively new contracting category.