Alex Rice leads global partnerships at ModelOp, connecting enterprise AI governance with the world’s top tech platforms.
Today we announced a strategic partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®. Carahsoft will serve as ModelOp's Master Government Aggregator®, making our AI Delivery Platform available to public sector organizations through Carahsoft's reseller partners and three contract vehicles agencies already hold: NASA SEWP V, ITES-SW2, and OMNIA Partners.
For the CIOs and AI governance leaders, this shortens the distance between an approved AI initiative and a governed system in production. It arrives as agentic AI drives urgency to modernize governance at large institutions.
Why Public Sector AI Projects Stall Before Reaching Production
Almost every agency I meet has a list of AI use-cases worth funding. What they don't have is a repeatable path from an approved idea to a governed system in production. Work stops in the handoffs between the program team, security, privacy, legal, and procurement. Deployments stall, compliance effort fragments, and shadow AI grows in the gap as staff adopt tools that never passed through intake.
Acceleration means clearing two kinds of friction: procuring the technology and operating it.
How Agencies Procure ModelOp Through Carahsoft and Run It In-House
Carahsoft solves the procurement problem. As the Master Government Aggregator® for its vendor partners, Carahsoft carries an AI portfolio spanning infrastructure through generative and agentic AI, backed by dedicated AI product specialists and a network of resellers, systems integrators, and consultants serving Federal, State and Local Government, Defense, Healthcare, and Education. For a public sector CIO, that means ModelOp is now a commercially available solution on a vehicle your contracting office already holds, without a new sole-source justification or a procurement cycle measured in quarters.
ModelOp solves the operating problem. ModelOp is an AI Delivery Platform for enterprise AI leaders, an Enterprise AI Command Center and AI system of record that unifies every AI asset, powers the workflows carrying a use-case from intake through risk tiering, approval, production, and monitoring, and generates the operational intelligence a CIO or CAIO needs to see what's running. Making that path standard and repeatable across ML, GenAI, Agentic AI, and vendor AI is what we mean by Industrialized AI Delivery, with risk-proportional controls mapped to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, HIPAA, and state law like the Colorado AI Act.
ModelOp sits above the MLOps, GRC, ITSM, security, and data management systems an agency already runs, without replacing them, and ModelOp Center deploys on-premises or in the agency's private cloud, referencing data in place so the software runs inside an environment the agency has already authorized.
How Agencies Can Govern AI Agents Instead of Banning Them
Agents are knocking on the door of government environments faster than review cycles built for traditional models can absorb. Some agencies have banned them outright. Others are still building governance for the classical models they deployed years ago. Neither position holds for long. Staff will clamor to use agents, vendors will want to ship them inside products agencies already license, and mission pressure will grow.
What organizations need is end-to-end control of the whole estate. Every model, agent, MCP tool, and vendor AI system on one record. Risk tiered and mapped to controls before anything touches sensitive data. Approvals recorded so a reviewer can reconstruct who decided what. And then enforcement in the execution path, which is where most governance programs stop short. Approved agents and tools get a route through the gateway your agency already operates, and everything else stays blocked until governance clears it. That gives a CIO one operating layer governing all AI, and enough portfolio-level control to say yes with conditions rather than no.
How to Get Started with ModelOp in the Public Sector
Together, Carahsoft and ModelOp give public sector organizations a way to adopt AI at the speed the mission demands, with the control it requires. If you're working to solve that problem, start here.
To understand the ModelOp platform, start with the Enterprise AI Command Center.
To learn more about our joint solutions, visit our microsite on Carahsoft.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can a government agency purchase ModelOp?
Public sector organizations can purchase ModelOp through Carahsoft and its reseller partners. Carahsoft serves as ModelOp's Master Government Aggregator®, so agencies buy on contract vehicles their contracting office already holds rather than through a new sole-source justification. To request pricing or a briefing, contact the Carahsoft team at (703) 871-8548 or ModelOp@carahsoft.com.
Which contract vehicles is ModelOp available on?
ModelOp is available through Carahsoft's NASA SEWP V contracts NNG15SC03B and NNG15SC27B, ITES-SW2 contract W52P1J-20-D-0042, and OMNIA Partners contract R240303.
What is ModelOp?
ModelOp is an AI Delivery Platform for enterprise AI leaders. It provides an Enterprise AI Command Center and AI system of record that unifies every AI asset, powers the workflows that carry a use-case from intake through risk tiering, approval, production, and monitoring, and generates the operational intelligence a CIO or CAIO needs to see what is running across the portfolio.
Which types of AI does ModelOp govern?
ModelOp managers and governs ML models, GenAI applications, AI agents, and vendor or third-party AI in a single system record. Agents, the MCP tools they call, and their orchestrators are treated as first-class governed assets rather than exceptions handled outside the system.
Does ModelOp replace an agency's existing MLOps, GRC, or ITSM systems?
No. ModelOp sits above the MLOps, GRC, ITSM, security, and data management systems an agency already runs and connects to them, extending those investments instead of replacing them. ModelOp is the operating layer that manages and orchestrates the full end-to-end AI lifecycle.
How is ModelOp deployed, and where does agency data live?
ModelOp Center is deployed software that runs on-premises or in an agency's private cloud, in any region. It references data in place rather than moving it, so residency and sovereignty stay under agency control and the software operates inside an environment the agency has already authorized.
Which regulations and frameworks does ModelOp map controls to?
ModelOp includes framework packs that align risk-proportional controls to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, SR 11-7 (26-2), HIPAA, and state AI regulations including the Colorado AI Act and TRAIGA. Agencies can customize these frameworks or build their own standards.
What is Carahsoft's role in the partnership?
Carahsoft is ModelOp's Master Government Aggregator®. Carahsoft carries an AI portfolio spanning infrastructure through generative and agentic AI, provides dedicated AI product specialists, and works through a network of resellers, systems integrators, and consultants serving Federal, State and Local Government, Defense, Healthcare, and Education organizations.
