DOC-REF: FRC-2026-04-28Rev 04 / 2026

Section 8.4 - Register entry

DOC-REF: FRC-MKT-F1208031461A

IBM Platform Services for Government

IBM lists IBM Platform Services for Government on the FedRAMP Marketplace with the status Agency Authorization In Process, at High impact, on the Agency path under the Rev5 process. Package F1208031461A, read from the marketplace feed as of September 3, 2026.

Agency Authorization In ProcessRev5Agency path

Section A. Register entry

What the marketplace records

FedRAMP package ID
F1208031461A
Cloud service provider
IBM
Impact level
High
Certification class
Class D (High)
Authorization path
Agency
Certification type
Rev5
Marketplace phase
Initial Implementation
Deployment model
Public Cloud
Register snapshot
September 3, 2026
Service model
PaaS, SaaS
Independent assessor
Coalfire Systems, Inc.
Status date
March 3, 2026
Milestones on record
1

The marketplace carries IBM Platform Services for Government under package F1208031461A with 14 recorded fields. Its current status was set on March 3, 2026. Coalfire Systems, Inc. is named as the independent assessor. No agency authorizations are listed against it in the current feed. It is delivered as PaaS and SaaS on a public cloud.

Section B. Milestones

1 entry in the marketplace event log

Most recent first, as recorded by FedRAMP.

Event log
DateCategoryRecorded
March 3, 2026Status ChangeStatus set to Agency Authorization In Process

Section C. Cost context

What reaching High 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 High authorization

Initial authorization$2,500,000 to $5,000,000+
Continuous monitoring$300,000 to $600,000+ a year
Typical timeline18 to 24 months
Control baseline421+ controls
Annual assessment$180,000 to $450,000 a year

Our published planning range for a provider pursuing High. It is not a figure any listed provider has disclosed.

Read the FedRAMP High 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

No annual assessment date is on the record. Assessment recurs annually for as long as a package stays listed. Annual assessment cost / continuous monitoring cost

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.

Section H. Description

As published on the marketplace

The provider's own description of the service, reproduced from the FedRAMP feed without edits.

IBM Platform Services provides core services for managing devices, applications, content, identity & access management, end-to-end visibility, dynamic resource allocation, and improved operational risk and resiliency. These services work together to modernize device management, IAM, observability, application resource monitoring, and providing clients with AI-driven recommendations and tips that are prioritized and customized for your applications. IBM MaaS360 for Government is a comprehensive, cloud-based unified endpoint management and security platform for devices, applications and content built on a secure multi-tenant architecture. Government agencies use MaaS360 to protect data and optimize productivity, enabling employees to work anytime and anywhere through trusted mobile interactions. MaaS360 offers device management and security without the added costs and complexities of deploying hardware and software, dealing with intricate configurations, and dedicating additional resources to support the solution on an ongoing basis. MaaS360 allows administrators to manage and enable security on smartphones, tablets and laptops and increase end users' productivity by enabling secure access to their enterprise data on their endpoint devices. IBM Verify for Government is an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform enabling organizations to secure and modernize experiences for workforce and citizens. IBM Verify provides modern Single-sign-on (SSO) using standard protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth, etc.), supports legacy protocols and access to thousands of popular cloud service applications, and in-house applications, with hundreds of pre-built templates for faster integration. IBM Verify manages the lifecycle of users and groups through a scalable and elastic directory, provides granular, attribute-based policies, and supports multi-factor authentication. Government agencies can provide a digital first experience for secure and frictionless authentication for citizens. IBM Instana for Government is a leading full-stack observability tool that automatically and continuously delivers the highest-fidelity data in one-second granularity, with end-to-end distributed tracing of every call or request, and provides a graphing model with dynamic maps to show you how everything is related. IBM Instana for Government allows you to see the exact data you want in the context you need to quickly determine the cause of an issue and take immediate action to fix it. Government agencies can monitor their entire stack with end-to-end visibility across shared services and gain real-time contextual understanding to find and fix problems faster. IBM Turbonomic for Government is the leading Application Resource Management (ARM) solution that dynamically allocates resources in real-time boosting efficiency, minimizing cloud expense, and preventing downtime. IBM Turbonomic for Government delivers continuously optimized application resource performance across hybrid multi-cloud environments providing intelligence automation and proactive resource management that scales existing resources efficiently; preemptive analytics to help maximize resource utilization; dynamic resource allocation; and seamless integration across on premises, public, private, hybrid and multiple cloud domains. IBM Concert for Government is the connective tissue that harmonizes data from disparate tools and environments, transforming it into actionable knowledge aimed at improving operational risk and resiliency and freeing up teams to focus more on innovation. IBM Concert for Government provides AI-driven recommendations and tips that are prioritized and customized for your applications. Get automated data analysis from disparate systems and tools, identify operational issues before they escalate, increase efficiency with Concert's recommendations and automation of repetitive tasks. Government agencies can uncover crucial insights about their operations and get application-specific recommendations for improvement.

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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DOC-REF: FRC-2026-04-28 / Updated 2026-04-28