GSA adds data security solutions to Schedule 70
The agency says Adobe’s electronic signature solutions and other tools will help agencies manage a broad list of federal security requirements.
The General Services Administration has added Adobe’s data-centric security and electronic signature solutions to GSA's IT Schedule 70, saying they will help agencies satisfy a list of federal security requirements.
GSA said the government-wide enterprise software acquisition agreement with Adobe not only helps drive federal strategic IT sourcing policies, but also can agencies in compliance with the revised Office of Management and Budget Circular A-130, the Cybersecurity National Action Plan, the Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, the Government Paperwork Elimination Act and the E-Sign Act of 2000.
The solutions, the agency said in a Dec. 6 statement, will also help agencies meet Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act and Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act guidelines that call for government-wide software license agreements for mission-critical agency solutions.
Likewise, it said the IT Schedule 70 contract directly supports OMB’s Category Management Policy 16–1, which focuses on leveraging the government’s buying power when procuring software licenses.
“The offering is a significant step forward in ... supporting the agency’s goals under category management,” Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, Office of Information Technology Category, said in the statement. “It will help federal agencies protect high value assets, while also supporting faster transition to an electronic government.”