Instead, they expect to finish the transition by May 2023. However, the GAO report found that eleven of them don’t plan to transition by the September 2022 milestone set by the GSA. To ensure agencies don’t miss that deadline, the GSA set a Septemmilestone for the transition of all Networx contracts to the EIS contract. Networx contracts are scheduled to expire in May 2023. While the GAO acknowledged that “transitioning to EIS is a complex undertaking,” it also made clear that “delaying this transition will cause agencies to miss potential cost Federal agencies don’t plan to meet a significant milestone for a transition to a new telecommunications contract vehicle.” Agencies are Behind Transition GoalsĪccording to a GAO April 2020 report - which evaluated agencies’ transition plans to the EIS contract - most agencies missed important transition schedule deadlines required by the GSA. However, eleven agencies are not on track to meet the GSA’s transition goal of September 30, 2022. All of these agencies reported that they plan to fully transition to EIS before current contracts expire in May 2023. As of October 2019, nineteen selected agencies were in different stages of transitioning from their expiring Networx contracts to the new EIS program. In response to concerns of delays of necessary implementations, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) administered a survey to nineteen selected agencies that spent at least $10 million on telecommunications in fiscal year 2018 regarding their transition schedule plans for EIS. Its goal is to provide transformational communications services for federal agencies from a mix of traditional and non-traditional telecommunications services providers. EIS is a government-wide contract that provides federal agencies with mission-critical telecommunications, infrastructure, and information technology services. In August 2017, the General Services Administration (GSA) awarded a potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract to ten telecommunications companies.

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