[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Criterion Systems has been selected as a prime contractor on the new Army Private Cloud (APC2) Mobile contract. APC2 is the Army’s first cloud computing contract, which will be used to acquire a host of enterprise cloud computing services, including software-as-a-service (SAAS), platform-as-a-service (PAAS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) and data and application migration services.

The Army Contracting Command, National Capital Region on behalf of the Army’s Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), awarded the five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to multiple contractors for both APC2 fixed suite and mobile requirements. It has a total ceiling value of $249.8 million. The APC2 contract is available to all Army customers and other Federal and Department of Defense (DoD) agencies to access a range of consulting and information technology services related to cloud computing, information assurance, and application migration. The contract is also available to agencies with projects requiring various types of clearance classification.