After several years of planning and releasing a handful of draft requests for proposals, the General Services Administration last Friday issued the formal RFP for its $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.

EIS, the agency’s follow-on to Networx, is a 15-year telecommunications infrastructure contract — made up of already-vetted products and services — that a host of federal agencies can use to transition their aging communications infrastructures for a modern world.

Proposals are due Jan. 15, 2016. GSA will take its time selecting award winners, with an expected unveiling in late 2016.

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