- Google Public Sector has secured an $876 million DHS contract for commercial cloud services
- The single-award vehicle spans a base year and four option periods
- DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar will keynote the 2026 Homeland Security Summit on Nov. 10
Google‘s public sector arm has received a potential $875.6 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide commercial cloud services for use across DHS as part of the department’s Cumulus cloud acquisition program.
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In an award notice published Monday on SAM.gov, the DHS Office of Procurement Operations awarded the contract to Google Public Sector in support of the Cumulus initiative.
What Is the Scope of the DHS Cloud Contract?
According to the award notice, the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers a suite of commercial anything-as-a-service offerings, including software as a service, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, professional services, marketplace solutions and training services.
A justification document released in April outlines a one-year base ordering period followed by four option years. The contract is structured to deliver commercial cloud capabilities that are on-demand and scalable, with access provided through a graphical user interface, application programming interfaces or a software development kit, enabling DHS to provision cloud resources rapidly across its cloud environments.
The document further states that the cloud offerings must fully meet established DHS minimum requirements and provide innovative capabilities to meet departmentwide mission requirements.
How Has the DHS Cumulus Cloud Program Evolved?
DHS first signaled its plans for a centralized cloud vehicle when it projected new departmentwide cloud IDIQs exceeding $100 million in January, laying the groundwork for what would become the Cumulus initiative.
That plan took shape in April, when the department advanced its Cumulus cloud acquisition strategy with contracts planned for major providers, naming Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Oracle and Google as its intended awardees.
The rollout began in June, when AWS landed the potential $2.6 billion DHS Cumulus cloud acquisition contract as the program’s first hyperscaler award. Oracle followed in August, when it booked a potential $568 million DHS Cumulus cloud contract as the second award under the initiative.
The latest award to Google Public Sector marks the third contract issued under the Cumulus program.
