Offices within the General Services Administration will have an easier time purchasing Infrastructure-as-a-Service with the announcement of a new blanket purchase agreement (BPA).

Cloud service provider Aquilent was awarded a five-year, $100 million contract to supply infrastructure needs to GSA offices, the agency announced Wednesday.

The new IaaS option will help GSA components move faster with their own procurements and programs, according to Phaedra Chrousos, associate administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies and 18F.

"Being able to develop products quickly and have the ability to scale them up are hallmarks of the agile design process that OCSIT and 18F are implementing at GSA and across government," Chrousos said. "Having easy access to infrastructure services will dramatically reduce the time to get products in the hands of users."

The BPA includes access to Amazon Web Services, professional services from Aquilent and other cloud services on IT Schedule 70.

The contract was competed between IaaS offerors and resellers on Schedule 70.

Aaron Boyd is an awarding-winning journalist currently serving as editor of Federal Times — a Washington, D.C. institution covering federal workforce and contracting for more than 50 years — and Fifth Domain — a news and information hub focused on cybersecurity and cyberwar from a civilian, military and international perspective.

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