IRS Awards Contract to Unisys

Unisys Corporation announced
that it has been awarded the Enterprise Storage Acquisition task order from the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide
private cloud-based storage for the agency’s information records.

This task order, awarded against GSA‘s Alliant
Government-wide Acquisition Contract, has a one-year base period and nine
one-year options and is potentially worth up to $139 million over 10 years, if
all options are exercised. It includes pricing for each year based on the IRS’s
estimate of its storage requirements.

Under the task order, Unisys will initially acquire storage assets
now owned and managed by IRS and will manage the more than 7.5PB of storage
space currently in multiple IRS data centers and facilities. It will then
plan, build, deploy and maintain a new IRS storage environment, transitioning
those assets to a private cloud-based storage-as-a-service model in which the
agency will pay for storage capacity as needed.

Under the task order, the IRS will pay for the amount of
storage it needs when it is needed, instead of purchasing storage equipment
necessary to meet its peak demands.

"The IRS Enterprise
Storage Acquisition program demonstrates how global best practices and
innovative approaches can bring significant cost savings to the US federal
government and to taxpayers," says Ted Davies, president of Unisys
Federal Systems. "As agencies look
to achieve more within tightened budget constraints, we expect to see more
agencies following the lead of the IRS."