Microsoft 365 and Office 365 For Government

Why Microsoft 365 for Government?

Microsoft 365 combines the power of Office apps, Teams, and OneDrive with enterprise-grade security and compliance. Designed for government environments, it helps agencies:

  • Enhance Productivity: Collaborate in real time—whether in the office, teleworking, or deployed.
  • Ensure Security & Compliance: Meet stringent federal, DoD, and regulatory requirements.
  • Reduce Costs: Optimize IT resources with cloud-based solutions.
  • Modernize IT Infrastructure: Transition to a secure, scalable cloud environment.

M365 & Office 365 Government Plans:

  • Microsoft 365 Government G3

    Powerful productivity apps with enhanced security and compliance capabilities for government

  • Microsoft 365 Government G5

    Best-in-class AI-powered productivity apps with advanced security, compliance, analytics, and AI readiness capabilities for the Government.

  • Office 365 Government G3

    Productivity apps, file sharing, webinars and basic security for Government

  • Office 365 Government G5

    Best-in-class AI-powered productivity apps with foundational security, compliance, and analytics capabilities for Government.

Carahsoft’s M365 OneGov Offering

Our OneGov solution simplifies procurement and deployment of Microsoft 365 for government agencies. It includes:

  • Pre-configured compliance-ready environments
  • Streamlined onboarding and migration support
  • Dedicated account management for ongoing success
  • M365 G5 + M365 Copilot Suite

    This license combination provides M365 government features for advanced compliance, security, email, calendar, file storage, and online meetings. Leverage AI-powered productivity capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot, integrating AI assistance into Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams to help users draft content, analyze data, and automate tasks.

    • M365 Copilot provided at no additional cost until the next anniversary date with M365 G5 subscription.
    • Unlimited M365 Copilot Agents for non-G5 users’ enterprise wide.
    • Current M365 G3 users who Step-Up to M365 G5 will receive a 70% discount for the remainder of the existing enrollment.

M365 Compliance-Ready Environments

Government agencies require solutions that meet strict compliance standards. Microsoft 365 offers specialized environments:

  • GCC (Government Community Cloud)
    •  Supports FedRAMP High, CJIS, IRS 1075 standards, DFARS, and DISA Level 2 Security Requirements Guidelines
    • Supports Criminal Justice Information (CJI) and Federal Tax Information (FTI)
  • GCC High
    • Meets DFARS, ITAR, and DoD SRG requirements
    • Designed for highly sensitive data
    • Best for FedRAMP High impact data, supports ITAR andDFARS.
  • DoD Environment
    • Built for Department of Defense workloads
    • Complies with DoD SRG Impact Level 5
    • For exclusive use by U.S. Department of Defense, complies with DISA Level 5 Security Requirements Guidelines

M365 and Office 365 Solutions:

  • Microsoft 365

    Microsoft 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based service that combines Microsoft’s best productivity, collaboration, and security features to empower users, enhance teamwork, and streamline workflows in a flexible and cloud-based environment.

  • Office 365

    The Office 365 GCC environment provides compliance with Federal requirements for cloud services, including FedRAMP Moderate, and requirements for criminal justice and federal tax information systems (CJI and FTI data types).

    The Office 365 GCC High and DoD Environments deliver compliance with Department of Defense Security Requirements Guidelines, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS), and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

    Office Applications:

    • Microsoft Word
    • Microsoft Excel
    • Microsoft PowerPoint
    • Outlook/Exchange

Collaboration & Sharing Applications

  • MS Teams

    o   Teams enables instant messaging, audio and video calling, rich online meetings, mobile experiences, and extensive web conferencing capabilities. In addition, it also provides file and data collaboration and extensibility features, and integrates with Microsoft 365.

    o   Teams Service Description

  • OneDrive

    o   An online storage space in the cloud that's used to help protect work files, access them across multiple devices, and lets you share files, collaborate on documents, and sync files to your computer.

    o   OneDrive Service Description

  • Sharepoint

    o   SharePoint Service Description

    o   A cloud-based service giving any business’s employees to create sites to share documents and information with colleagues, partners and customers.

Security Portfolio

  • Power Platform

    Power Apps

    • Used to create custom apps to be shared internally meant to be run in a browser or on a mobile device

    Power Automate

    • Used to create automated tasks and workflows to help streamline work.

    Power BI

    • This is Microsoft’s analytic solution that provides interactive data and contains tools to help visualize that data to grant individuals insights into their organization

    Power Virtual Agents

    • Allows you to create chatbots that can answer a wide range of questions. Can be used for internal or external use.

    Power Pages

    • Used for creating, hosting, and managing external facing websites.
  • Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel

    Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel deliver threat protection for identity, email, data, apps, and more as well as cloud security to protect your workloads in the cloud no matter which platforms you are on and which cloud providers you use.

  • Microsoft Entra ID

    o   Microsoft Entra is the new name for Azure Active Directory.

    o   Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management solution, which helps your employees and guest users sign in securely and access resources such as Microsoft apps, such as M365 and Azure.

    o   It offers security capabilities like single sign-on, multifactor authentication, Conditional Access, and lifecycle management to protect organizations against identity compromise.

  • Microsoft Purview

    o   Microsoft Purview helps customers govern, protect, and manage data across both Microsoft and non-Microsoft assets. As threats come from both outside and inside of the organization, Purview helps you identify and remediate risks within your organization, including insider risks, policy violations, and regulatory requirements.

  • Microsoft Priva

    o   Priva provides capabilities that help you:

    o   Proactively identify and protect against privacy risks such as data hoarding, problematic data transfers, and data oversharing

    o   Gain visibility into the storage and movement of personal data

    o   Empower employees to make smart data handling decisions

    o   Enable users to effectively manage data and take steps to comply with evolving privacy regulations

    o   Manage subject rights requests at scale

  • Microsoft Intune

    o   Like identity access and management, endpoint management is another foundational block to security. Microsoft Intune provides management capabilities critical to effectively protect all your endpoints.

M365 & Office 365 Licensing and Contract Vehicles Available Through Carahsoft
 

Carahsoft is an Authorized Federal Microsoft Licensing Solution Provider (LSP) and is also authorized to provide the following licensing programs:

  • Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)

    o   Flexible, subscription-based licensing with monthly or annual billing.

    o   Flexible deployment available (perpetual and subscription cloud-based licensing for M365 & Office licensing)

  • Open Value Program

    o   Ideal for organizations seeking simplified license management and predictable costs.

    o   Perpetual licensing and Software Assurance available

  • AOS-G (Agreement for Online Services for Government)

    o   Enterprise Agreement via AOS-G

    o   GCC, GCC-H, GOVCON licensing available

    o   M365 limitations for Federal Agencies*

  • Enterprise Agreements via LSP

    o   licensing for large agencies with volume discounts

    Carahsoft has a dedicated sales team that can meet with you today to determine what licensing program is best suited for your agency needs.

Contract Vehicles for Easy Procurement

Carahsoft provides access to a wide range of contract vehicles to simplify purchasing, including:

  • GSA Schedule
  • NASA SEWP
  • CIO-CS
  • DoD ESI
  • State and Local Contracts
Contracts