A keynote document to use for planning your migration to Cloud Computing is the USA CIO Council’s recent publication: ‘Creating Effective Cloud Computing Contracts for the Federal Government‘.
“Standards specification: In accordance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-119, Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities, agencies should specify relevant voluntary consensus standards in their procurements. The NIST Standards.gov website includes a useful list of questions that agencies should consider before selecting standards for agency use”.