SmartCloud for Government

IBM lists SmartCloud for Government on the FedRAMP Marketplace with the status FedRAMP Certified, at High impact, on the JAB path under the Rev5 process. Package F1206081363, read from the marketplace feed as of September 3, 2026.

FedRAMP CertifiedRev5JAB path

Section A. Register entry

What the marketplace records

FedRAMP package ID: F1206081363
Cloud service provider: IBM
Certification status: FedRAMP Certified
Impact level: High
Certification class: Class D (High)
Authorization path: JAB
Certification type: Rev5
Marketplace phase: Ongoing Certification
Deployment model: Government Community Cloud
Register snapshot: September 3, 2026
Service model: IaaS
Independent assessor: Coalfire Systems, Inc.
Certification date: November 14, 2019
Status date: November 14, 2019
Annual assessment: November 14, 2011
Agency authorizations: 5
Recorded reuses: 4
Milestones on record: 2

The marketplace carries SmartCloud for Government under package F1206081363 with 18 recorded fields. Its certification date is November 14, 2019. Coalfire Systems, Inc. is named as the independent assessor, with an annual assessment date of November 14, 2011. 4 agencies are listed as having authorized it, among them Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Education and 1 more, and the feed records 4 reuses of the package. It is delivered as IaaS on a government community cloud.

Section B. Milestones

2 entries in the marketplace event log

Most recent first, as recorded by FedRAMP.

Event logF1206081363

Date	Category	Recorded
November 14, 2019	Status Change	Status changed from JAB Review to FedRAMP Certified
June 19, 2018	Status Change	Status set to FedRAMP 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

The marketplace lists 53 offerings against the JAB path. Our JAB vs Agency page records that the JAB P-ATO path was retired in 2024 and that Agency Authorization is now the single traditional route, at $800,000 to $2,000,000 over 12 to 18 months. JAB vs Agency ATO cost

Assessment and monitoring

An annual assessment date of November 14, 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

4 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.

Bureau of the Fiscal Service
Customs and Border Protection
Department of Education
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment 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:

GO.gov Moderate IBM Automation Services for Government Moderate IBM Cloud for Government High IBM Data Services for Government Moderate IBM Envizi ESG Reporting LI-SaaS IBM Federal ATOM High

Google Services (Google Cloud Platform Products and underlying Infrastructure)
Google
FedRAMP Certified, High impact, JAB path, Rev5, certified December 4, 2019.
Salesforce Government Cloud Plus
Salesforce
FedRAMP Certified, High impact, JAB path, Rev5, certified May 27, 2020.
GovDataHosting Cloud Platform
IT-CNP
FedRAMP Certified, High impact, JAB path, Rev5, certified April 3, 2019.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-Government Cloud
Oracle
FedRAMP Certified, High impact, JAB path, Rev5, certified October 1, 2020.
Google Workspace
Google
FedRAMP Certified, High impact, JAB path, Rev5, certified October 28, 2021.

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 SmartCloud for Government (SCG) is a secure multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing environment for U.S. Federal customers. SCG services include provisioning of compute, memory, network, OS, and storage resources to meet client production and development/test computing needs. SCG IaaS services can be bundled with enterprise class, fully managed, cloud hosting services, including: OS Provisioning and Administration Enterprise System Management Security Operation Center (SOC) Storage Management and Backup. IBM SCG required services Storage management Firewall and Network Administration (Boundary management services) Service Desk Access Management Cloud Network IBM SCG rated services SCG Cloud-VM/CPU SCG Cloud-Memory SCG Cloud-Network SCG Load Balancer SOC-SOAR Standard Endpoint Protection Services System Vulnerability Scanning Security Governance and Compliance These SCG IaaS capabilities can also be leveraged to support a broad range of IBM and 3rd party software offerings using a PaaS or SaaS delivery model. The SCG solutions are delivered from IBM Federal Data Centers (FDC) that are expressly designed and managed to meet FISMA requirements. IBM SCG enables customers to choose cloud solutions and services that meet their workload requirements and helps Government agencies deliver business outcomes with faster time to value and a lower total cost of ownership

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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.

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