STRATUS

About STRATUS

USDA STRATUS is a suite of government-wide Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) designed to support federal agencies’ procurement requirements to obtain rapid access to hyperscale cloud service providers, cloud integration and development providers, and SaaS providers/resellers. This collection of BOAs, formally known as USDA STRATUS, provides rapid access to cloud capabilities. This suite of BOAs is available for use by agencies throughout the Federal Government through USDA’s Digital Infrastructure Service Center (DISC) or to Federal Government agencies who hold a Delegation of Procurement Authority (DPA).

STRATUS is a collection of Basic Ordering Agreements (FAR 16.703) scoped to 10 years. Task Orders can be awarded under STRATUS at any time as well as new BOAs to Vendors who wish to become an approved vendor on STRATUS.

STRATUS contracts may be used by all federal agencies but are not open to state and local governments at this time.

STRATUS Program Benefits:

• Connects Federal Agencies to Cloud Capabilities including Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from Hyperscale Cloud Service Providers; Integration and Support Services; and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
• Designed to Maximize Contractor Competition to ensure competitive pricing for Federal Government agencies.
• Enhanced Data Analytics on Procurement including data insights into usage and invoice trend analysis.
  *STRATUS is a 10-year suite of Basic Ordering Agreements. STRATUS is organized into 3 pools of ordering.

Pool 1: Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)

STRATUS customers can obtain compute, storage, DevSecOps tooling, software development tooling, security tooling needs, asset/license management, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) through Pool 1.

Pool 2: Labor Services

STRATUS Customers can purchase a variety of labor and integration services on Pool 2, including: unified intake, governance, cloud architecture, cloud engineering/modernization/migration, and security approach, platform operations, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline engineering, Continuous Authority to Operate (C-ATO), and change management.

Pool 3: SaaS Resellers

STRATUS Customers can purchase commercial software provided as a service e.g., Salesforce, ServiceNow, Atlassian on Pool 3.

Getting Started with STRATUS

STRATUS is hosting a Launch Event featuring USDA-led Panels and Industry engagement on November 15^th, 2024. To register: USDA Stratus Launch Event

To begin your Task Order Solicitation on STRATUS, please contact the DISC Customer Engagement team at AIOG-CO-DISC-Customer-Engagement@usda.gov.

To learn how to become STRATUS vendor on Pool 2 or 3, please contact the STRATUS Program Management team at STRATUS@usda.gov.

For general inquiries and more information, please contact the STRATUS Program Management team at STRATUS@usda.gov.