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GSA Green IT Solutions Support Your Sustainability Goals. Michael K. Morimoto IT Specialist – Green Initiatives and Sustainability GSA Center for Strategic Solutions and Security Services. May 2012. Value to the Customer. Reduces waste and uses resources more intelligently
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GSA Green IT Solutions Support Your Sustainability Goals Michael K. MorimotoIT Specialist – Green Initiatives and SustainabilityGSA Center for Strategic Solutions and Security Services May 2012
Value to the Customer • Reduces waste and uses resources more intelligently • Sustainable solutions save taxpayer dollars and reduce greenhouse gas emissions • Sustainable solutions will transform the way the government buys and manages IT
ITS Mission, Vision, and Value • Our Mission • To excel at providing customers easy access to IT solutions through quality industry partners to fulfill government mission requirements • Our Vision • Great Government through Technology • Our Value • To reduce total acquisition time, cost, and risk, • allowing our customers to focus on their mission
ITS Program Offices • ITS Program Offices administer contract vehicles and deliver acquisition services to customer agencies to buy IT and telecommunications offerings and strategic solutions • Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) provides complete acquisition lifecycle support to government agencies Network Services ProgramsYour one-stop shop for telecommunications solutions IT Schedule 70Fair and reasonable prices for IT products and services Governmentwide Acquisition ContractsComprehensive and flexible contracts that provide virtually any IT service IT Commodity Program IT commodities and ancillary services through innovative ordering ITS Center for Strategic Solutions and Security Services Good for Government Programs Services Assisted Acquisition
ITS Offerings and Solutions • ITS offers government customers access to IT products, services, and strategic solutions Communications and Network Services Offerings ITS “Great Government through Technology” Professional Services Hardware Products and Services Security Software Products and Services Strategic Solutions
Sustainability • Is changing the way government does business by: • Helping to create jobs and supporting American businesses, by leading the Federal government to a sustainable future • Identifying sustainable products ranging from vehicles to cleaning products that will reduce the Federal government’s environmental footprint and save resources, including taxpayer dollars • Laying the framework for an emerging sustainable economy
Sustainability is an Administration Priority • Executive Order (EO) 13514, "Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance” • The goal - "to establish an integrated strategy towards sustainability in the Federal Government and to make reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) a priority for Federal agencies.“ • Energy Independence and Security (EISA) Act of 2007 • Designed to increase energy efficiency and the availability of renewable energy
GSA’s Role in Sustainability • Create a more efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable government for the American people • Lead the Federal government to a sustainable future • Enable federal, state, and local government to “go green” by facilitating compliance with environment goals and mandates • Promote commercial innovation and adoption of sustainable technologies
Sustainability and Information Technology • Information Tech (IT) is a strategic asset and productivity tool for Federal, State, and Local Governments • Benefits of Sustainable Information Technology • Reduce the resources needed to build and run computing environment • Increase business agility • Profit, Opportunities, Innovation • Standup, COOP, DR, platform independence, etc. • Reduce the electronic waste generated and in need of disposal
Sustainability IT Solutions from GSA • Enable federal agencies to meet their sustainability goals using the GSA portfolio of Technology offerings and project support throughout the Green IT lifecycle
Benefits Example • Reduces waste and uses resources more intelligently • Data center in need to consolidation, broken DR/COOP, no new funding, low confidence. • Built knowledge, confidence, buy-in through, lessons learned through pilot in lab. • More With Less – Funded through cost reduction. • Positions updated. • Developed virtualization rankings (CPU/network/storage) • Problems less technical, more business process/cultural.
Benefits Example • Sustainable solutions save taxpayer dollars and reduce greenhouse gas emissions • Move from underutilized, outdated systems to a more utility based system of greater reliability and smoother budgeting. • DR/COOP now fixed and integrated with a live test bed. • Virtual desktops used for DR/COOP, snow days, pandemic and everyday. • GHG reduced by travel, transport, hardware, materials.
Benefits Example • Sustainable solutions will transform the way the government buys and manages IT • Our new environment enabled greater agility, flexibility, ability, reliability. • The virtual environment reduces cost, lead time, is automatically refreshed and benefits from technological advances. • Enables technological flexibility. • 6 weeks to 1 week, paper exercise to <48 hours.
GSA’s website: • A resource for information and support www.gsa.gov/greenit www.gsa.gov/sustainability
Thank you for your interest and participation! • GSA enables the acquisition of sustainable products and services agencies need to meet sustainability goals, so that agencies can focus on their core mission and business. • Visit the ITS kiosk in the GSA Flagship • Michael.Morimoto@gsa.gov • Office: 703-306-6349 • Websites: • www.gsa.gov/sustainability • www.gsa.gov/greenit Please remember: For more information contact: