The ERISA public disclosure website — which houses filings by health and pension plans of private employers — is headed for the cloud. According to Federal Times, the Department of Labor (DOL) is choosing a vendor that can provide a FedRAMP-certified cloud for this purpose.
The DOL’s request for information (RFI) for a vendor to host the website was open to any vendor, although the DOL was especially interested in bids from:
1. small businesses;
2. small businesses owned by veterans disabled in their service; and
3. HUBZone small businesses.
The DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration, not the vendor, will maintain the site.
The transfer to a cloud-based platform involves a great deal of information — the public disclosure website contains around 12 terabytes of forms in PDF format. Federal Times reports that the files grow by 450 gigabytes every year.
The DOL’s request for information (RFI) for a vendor to host the website was open to any vendor, although the DOL was especially interested in bids from:
1. small businesses;
2. small businesses owned by veterans disabled in their service; and
3. HUBZone small businesses.
The DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration, not the vendor, will maintain the site.
The transfer to a cloud-based platform involves a great deal of information — the public disclosure website contains around 12 terabytes of forms in PDF format. Federal Times reports that the files grow by 450 gigabytes every year.
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