US government agency for tax collection and tax law enforcement, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has awarded an Enterprise Storage Acquisition task order to Unisys to provide private cloud-based storage for the agency’s information records.
The Enterprise Storage Acquisition task order has a one-year base period and nine one-year options and it is could be worth up to $139m 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 Enterprise Storage Acquisition task order, Unisys will initially acquire storage assets of IRS and will manage more than 7.5 petabytes of storage space currently in multiple IRS data centres and facilities.
Then the company will 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.
The task order is awarded against GSA’s Alliant Government-wide Acquisition Contract, the company said.
IRS will pay only for the amount of storage it needs when it is needed, instead of purchasing storage equipment necessary to meet its peak demands.
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