Section 8.4 - Register entry
DOC-REF: FRC-MKT-FR2135730387
IBM Federal HR Cloud
IBM lists IBM Federal HR Cloud on the FedRAMP Marketplace with the status FedRAMP Certified, at Moderate impact, on the Agency path under the Rev5 process. Package FR2135730387, read from the marketplace feed as of September 3, 2026.
Section A. Register entry
What the marketplace records
- FedRAMP package ID
- FR2135730387
- Cloud service provider
- IBM
- Certification status
- FedRAMP Certified
- Impact level
- Moderate
- Certification class
- Class C (Moderate)
- Authorization path
- Agency
- Certification type
- Rev5
- Marketplace phase
- Ongoing Certification
- Deployment model
- Government Community Cloud
- Register snapshot
- September 3, 2026
- Service model
- SaaS
- Independent assessor
- Coalfire Systems, Inc.
- Certification date
- June 8, 2023
- Status date
- June 8, 2023
- Annual assessment
- October 4, 2011
- Agency authorizations
- 5
- Recorded reuses
- 4
- Business categories
- Analytics, Data Management, Human Resources
- Milestones on record
- 3
The marketplace carries IBM Federal HR Cloud under package FR2135730387 with 19 recorded fields. Its certification date is June 8, 2023. Coalfire Systems, Inc. is named as the independent assessor, with an annual assessment date of October 4, 2011. 5 agencies are listed as having authorized it, among them Department of Veterans Affairs, General Services Administration, National Credit Union Administration and 2 more, and the feed records 4 reuses of the package. It is delivered as SaaS on a government community cloud, filed under 3 business categories including Analytics, Data Management and Human Resources.
Section B. Milestones
3 entries in the marketplace event log
Most recent first, as recorded by FedRAMP.
| Date | Category | Recorded |
|---|---|---|
| June 8, 2023 | Status Change | Status changed from PMO Review to FedRAMP Certified |
| October 4, 2022 | Status Change | Status changed from Agency Review to FedRAMP In Process |
| December 3, 2021 | Status Change | Status set to Agency Authorization In Process |
Section C. Cost context
What reaching Moderate costs
Our own published ranges for a provider going through this level. Nothing here is a figure this provider has disclosed.
Cost context
Budget for a Moderate authorization
Our published planning range for a provider pursuing Moderate. It is not a figure any listed provider has disclosed.
Read the FedRAMP Moderate cost guide / annual assessment cost / continuous monitoring cost
Path
Agency Authorization is the route for 578 of the offerings on the marketplace. Our cost pages put it at $800,000 to $2,000,000 over 12 to 18 months for Moderate. Agency authorization cost
Assessment and monitoring
An annual assessment date of October 4, 2011 is on the record, and that assessment recurs for as long as the package stays listed. Annual assessment cost / continuous monitoring cost
Section E. Agencies on the record
5 agencies listed against this package
As published on the marketplace. An agency named here has issued its own authorization to operate; FedRAMP does not issue ATOs itself.
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- General Services Administration
- National Credit Union Administration
- Office of Personnel Management
- Railroad Retirement Board
Section G. Nearest entries on the register
Comparable offerings
Scored on impact level, path, status, shared business categories and how close the two entries sit in the register's own timeline.
IBM lists 7 offerings on the marketplace. The others are:
- Qlik Cloud Government
Qlik Technologies Inc.
FedRAMP Certified, Moderate impact, Agency path, Rev5, certified September 27, 2022.
- CorityOne
Cority Software Inc.
FedRAMP Certified, Moderate impact, Agency path, Rev5, certified August 29, 2022.
- Onspring GovCloud
Onspring Technologies, LLC
FedRAMP Certified, Moderate impact, Agency path, Rev5, certified March 27, 2024.
- Issio Information System
Issio Solutions, Inc.
FedRAMP Certified, Moderate impact, Agency path, Rev5, certified August 3, 2022.
- Workday Government Cloud (WGC)
Workday Inc.
FedRAMP Certified, Moderate impact, Agency path, Rev5, certified July 11, 2022.
Section H. Description
As published on the marketplace
The provider's own description of the service, reproduced from the FedRAMP feed without edits.
IBM's Federal HR Cloud solution for federal government offers a configurable human capital management SaaS solution. As part of this solution, IBM delivers functionality for the complete suite of core HR processing including personnel action processing, compensation management, benefits administration, performance management, time and leave management, payroll services, employee and manager self-service, intelligent automation, and cognitive decision support to allow HR leaders enable cognitive HR enterprise.
Next step
What the same authorization would cost you
The worksheet turns an impact level, an existing security posture and an organization size into a line-by-line budget, with the 3PAO fee split out.
Provenance and independence
Source: the FedRAMP Marketplace product feed, produced by the General Services Administration. The feed's own last-change stamp is September 3, 2026; this copy was taken on September 5, 2026.
GSA's disclaimers page states that FedRAMP content about a specific commercial product or service is provided for the information and convenience of the public and “does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the General Services Administration”. A listing here is a record of a certification status, not a judgment about the product.
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