Officials want to avoid a repeat of the prolonged transition of the Networx contract from a decade prior. GSA has been under pressure to ensure a seamless shift to EIS since long before its August 2017 award. “What we have said, and we are sticking to it, is that if we just hear transition and an agency, for whatever reason, can’t even do partial transformation” or plan for modernization, then an extension would be out of the question, she said in July.
The move has been anticipated since this summer when Kay Ely, former assistant commissioner for GSA’s Office of Information Technology Category, said an extension of the 2020 deadline was on the table, but only if agencies were planning to leverage the contract to substantially modernize their network infrastructures.
“To facilitate a smooth transition to EIS while still encouraging agencies to modernize, we will be offering a one-year extension with two option years on approximately 90 legacy telecommunications contracts.” “Over the last several months, GSA has learned of challenges our customer agencies have encountered when transitioning to EIS,” agency officials said in a statement. GSA officials confirmed Thursday that they extended the deadline for implementing the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract from 2020 to 2023 to provide agencies with more time to make preparations for modernizing their networks before onboarding new services. In a decision anticipated for much of the year, the General Services Administration has extended the deadline for agencies to implement its flagship $50 billion telecommunications contract.
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