CGI to build data environment for Interior's energy royalties

CGI Federal will help the Interior Department collect and distribute royalties from oil and gas wells on tribal lands.

The contract is worth $12.9 million if all options are exercised. CGI will provide Interior’s office of natural resources revenue with a modern data management environment.

The agency works across the federal government to coordinate activities involved in the management of oil, gas and other natural resources that are on tribal lands or are individual Indian holdings. The office of natural resources revenue makes payments directly to individuals and tribes as well as to the Historic Preservation Fund, the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Reclamation Fund. It also makes disbursements to states and the U.S. Treasury.

Under this contract, CGI will implement a cloud-based platform-as-a-service data management system as the foundation for the office to modernize its IT systems.

CGI will integrate Amazon Web Services tools and Snowflake’s platform-as-a-service solution to support the collection of large amounts of data. The platform will enable consolidation and dissemination, the company said in a release.

The contract builds on prior work CGI has done across Interior bureaus, Stefan Becker, a CGI vice president, said.

“We will leverage a proven, innovative and secure cloud-based data management environment solution that supports ONRR in its mission of ensuring the full and fair collection and disbursement of federal and Indian royalties,” he said.