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The document said decoupling is accomplished by allowing common access prices to be defined for services and service groupings regardless of location or access engineering, thereby reducing price points and simplifying price structures. This approach is expected to result in fewer pricing elements and greater pricing transparency."Ĭritical to the EIS approach, according to the RFP, is allowing, but not requiring, network access to be decoupled from pricing.

"EIS seeks to provide an orderly path to future pricing by accommodating current legacy services pricing while allowing for the evolution of future services pricing toward greater flexibility and simplicity. "As providers retire legacy infrastructure, agencies will modernize their networks and applications, reducing pricing, ordering, and billing complexities," per the RFP. The contract bundles mandatory telecommunications service areas with such "optional services" as cloud, managed services, data centers, managed network services, and security operations centers. GSA officials declined to answer FCW's inquiries about the RFP, citing its policy of not commenting about active procurements, but a look through the massive RFP shows dozens of new and legacy services that look to provide a bridge between dying circuit-switched, private-line voice services and the emerging and growing array of digital and cloud services. GSA expects to award the EIS contract in late 2016 and it make it available for agency use in early 2017.ĮIS replaces GSA's Networx contract, which had just over $1.5 billion in sales in FY 2014. Ultimately, the agency had to comb through, and address, 1,600 formal comments from industry to refine the scope and language of the solicitation and make final RFP. GSA released a draft RFP in February, and pushed the final RFP's issue date first to the end of September and then into mid-October as it worked to incorporate industry feedback and refine increasingly complex approaches to services, including cybersecurity services. Potential bidders have until the end of the year to sift through its 890 pages before responding. 16 issued its formal request for proposals for its massive, $50 Billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions.ĮIS is the foundational contract for its overarching NS2020 Strategy framework and acquisition strategy, for future federal information technology and telecommunications needs. After years of collaboration with the public and with potential bidders, both online and in person, the General Services Administration on Oct.