The NOAA Office of the Chief Information Officer through the NOAA Cloud Program Office (NCPO) requires cloud services to support the NOAA Cloud Strategy, which involves multi-cloud, multi-tenant, FedRAMP certified commercial cloud computing environments and related capabilities. The aim is to enable direct access to hyperscale cloud services at all organizational levels, from strategic levels to operation in field offices.
This multi-vendor cloud solution must be a direct contract with each Cloud Service Provider, as the CSP must demonstrate direct control over infrastructure changes to allow implementation of changes that meet NOAA requirements. NOAA intends to enhance its mission by leveraging advanced cloud technologies such as elastic computing, storage, and network infrastructure, providing resilient services with broad geographic accessibility, centralized management with distributed control, enhanced security measures, advanced data analytics capabilities, strong marketplace and partner networks, support for scientific research, data collaboration, and the utilization of composable multi-cloud and collective capabilities from various cloud service providers. NOAA’s acquisition strategy to achieve these goals is to pursue a multi-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle.
