DOD finalizes $848.8M Red Hat software supply pact
Red Hat's logo on display at the Viva Technology conference in Paris on June 15, 2023. Photo by Chesnot / Getty Images
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Ross Wilkers
This blanket purchase agreement is part of the Defense Department's main initiative for making consolidated buys of commercial IT products and services.
The Defense Department has chosen three public sector IT resellers for a potential five-year, $848.4 million blanket purchase agreement that tasks those companies to provide Red Hat software and licenses for on-premise and cloud-based environments.
Carahsoft, immixGroup's EC America subsidiary and TD Synnex will compete for delivery orders over the BPA's full duration that covers a three-year base period and a single two-year option. The TD Synnex Public Sector division houses what formerly constituted DLT Solutions.
Navy officials managed the BPA and awarded as part of the Defense Department's Enterprise Software Initiative, the Pentagon said in its Tuesday awards digest. The three awardees were the only ones to respond to the request for quotes, which DOD issued through the General Services Administration’s Federal Supply Schedule program.
ESI is the department's mechanism for consolidating its purchases of commercial software, IT hardware and services into a more unified approach that primarily takes place through BPAs.
That is how DOD finalized its award of a potential five-year, $146 million BPA earlier in August for Appian products, services, subscriptions and licenses across the department. Carahsoft, Groundswell and TD Synnex are the awardees for that pact.
For the Red Hat-focused BPA, DOD says it needs those products for use in environments that run on the Linux operating system.