Dave Bennett, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s CIO and director for Enterprise Information Services told a recent audience at the Newseum in Washington DC that he favors capacity services contracts for some kinds of IT delivery.
Capacity services contracts allow agencies to scale the contract to their needs, paying for what they use while the contractor owns and maintains equipment – with tiered pricing done on a utility basis, explained DISA.
“With capacity services [contracts] we have vendors online to provide platforms for our computing environment and we can request ‘x’ number more boxes as the demand increases and [the vendors] have a timeframe in which to deliver,” said Bennett.
“Throughout the course of a contract I’m able to ebb and flow and have a built-in tech refresh,” he said. “This helps me support users by quickly and consistently bringing in new capabilities as technology evolves in a cost-effective way.”
Link: http://www.disa.mil/News/Stories/2014/Bennett-IT-Efficiencies
