Lakewood Company Lands $35 Million Contract With Federal Government

A Detroit Avenue tech company has landed a big contract with the federal government. 

Think $34.9 million.

That’s how much the deal was worth between the Department of the Interior and .

The contract — inked and announced on Wednesday — means that Onix will provide cloud-based "Software as a Service" (SaaS) email and collaboration services.

Founded in 1992, that include cloud computing, geospatial information systems, Enterprise search, storage solutions and secure wireless solutions. The company's customers include Internet-giant Google and various levels of government.

The company, following the , announced in February that it’s now a Premier Enterprise and Premier SMB Reseller of the Google Apps suite.

What’s that mean?

For starters, it means more jobs in Lakewood.

Onix, a long-standing partner with Google, is one of only a handful of companies in the world authorized as a Google Premier Enterprise company.

In 2002, it was also the first.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said shifting to a cloud-based email system will modernize the ways the agency does business and cut costs, amounting to "good government, plain and simple."

He added that the contract is part of an initiative to "leverage modern technology to save up to $500 million in taxpayer dollars by 2020."

The news may mean more growth for the Detroit Avenue company as it looks to expand into its nearly 40,000-square-foot location in the Georgetown Row half of the former  headquarters at the corner Detroit and Graber avenues.

“We’re here, we’re growing and we’re committed to being a part of this community,” said Diane Maloney, the company’s marketing director, said in February. “We keep expanding.”