GSA announced in July that it was adding TIC services to Networx, but vendors on the contract are still working on the details. The theory behind this move is that the fewer connection points there are, the easier they will be to keep secure and monitor. The General Services Administration is adding TIC-related services to the Networx program, and the OMB memo urges agencies to use the contracts for TIC, requiring a cost/benefit justification for taking another course.The TIC initiative requires agencies to eliminate as many of their Internet connections to the public Internet as possible. The memo also addresses OMB’s Trusted Internet Connections initiative. The agencies will have to support any decisions to use other vehicles with the analyses. Therefore, Evans issued the memo to give agencies blanket authorization to use Networx without any further cost/benefit study.
In it, she said Networx had satisfied a cost/benefit analysis that the CIO Council conducted. Karen Evans, OMB’s administrator for e-government and information technology, issued the memo. In the future, agencies must perform a cost/benefit analysis to justify using contracts other than Networx for new requirements.The memo leaves little wiggle room for agencies to sidestep it, said analyst Warren Suss, president of Suss Consulting.“The first thing it says is, ‘thou shalt.’ There’s no ambiguity here,” he said. 28, requires agencies to use Networx for services that they had been getting through FTS 2001 as they move from the old contract to the new one. A recent memo from the Office of Management and Budget doesn’t quite make the Networx contract mandatory but will give agencies a strong incentive to favor it over other options, according to experts.
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