Cloud AI/ML Services

No, and that distinction matters enough to lead with. This engagement implements and documents the technical practices M-25-21 requires and produces the evidence your assessors and authorizing official need. Determinations of compliance, waiver decisions, and the authorization to operate remain with your agency and its designated officials.

The licenses are the model layer, available at near-zero cost. The gap is connecting them to your data, inside your boundary, with the monitoring, oversight, and documentation M-25-21 requires. That gap is engineering, and it's what this engagement delivers.

Nothing in the engagement leaves your authorized boundary, only FedRAMP-authorized services already in your tenant are used, and your ISSO is engaged from week one. We can't promise an approval, no honest vendor can, but we remove the usual reasons for denial.

True as a prime, and priced accordingly: a fixed-price pilot under the simplified acquisition threshold with evaluation gates caps your exposure, all code and documentation are your property from day one, and the engineers on the work are the firm's principals, not a bench.

Success metrics are fixed at kickoff and evaluated honestly on your real data, not a curated demo. An honest miss at Phase 3 is a valid, priced exit, a documented negative result at pilot price instead of a quiet failure at program price.

A scoped pilot runs 10-16 weeks; pilot-through-production runs 6-9 months. Avalon leads with a fixed-price pilot priced under the simplified acquisition threshold, sized for a fast contracting officer decision.

This isn't a data platform build, the cloud landing zone itself, workflow automation, license resale, or the ATO package, each of those is a separately scoped Avalon service. We're explicit in the SOW about exactly where the line falls.