The General Services Administration and Elastic have signed an agreement to reduce the price of the latter’s Search AI platforms for federal agencies through September 2027.
GSA said Monday the strategic partnership with Elastic is part of the agency’s OneGov initiative, which seeks to transform how federal agencies buy goods and services and deliver IT cost savings across the government while advancing the modernization of legacy IT systems.
OneGov Agreement Between GSA & Elastic
Under the OneGov agreement, agencies can receive discounts of up to 60 percent on Elastic’s self-managed platforms, with discounts starting at 27.5 percent.
For FedRAMP Moderate cloud deployments through GovCloud, discounts range from 15 percent to 32 percent based on volume.
The offer will run through Sept. 30, 2027.
Elastic will offer a suite of Search AI platforms through GSA Advantage, including Elastic’s Security Incident Event Monitoring, Observability, Zero Trust Architecture, Search AI Lake and vector database for building GenAI applications. The offerings include capabilities such as Elastic’s AI Assistant for Security, native NLP model support, Attack Discovery and enhanced data onboarding features.
Elastic’s Search AI platform is designed to facilitate real-time analysis, deliver searchable results, drive operational resilience and advance cyberthreat detection.
“We appreciate Elastic’s cooperative approach in establishing pricing structures that are not only cost-effective in the present but also guarantee sustained financial benefits for taxpayers in the long run,” said Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service.
“Through the OneGov initiative, we are actively converting these beneficial collaborative relationships into formalized, enduring agreements with our industry partners, with the goal of systematically reducing procurement expenses for the foreseeable future,” added Gruenbaum, a 2025 Wash100 awardee.
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