What Infosys / HCL / Wipro gets wrong in Government
Government technology procurement constraints make the offshore IT services model legally and practically incompatible with most federal and state agency work. FedRAMP authorization requires US-citizen data handling. FISMA compliance requires US-based operations for systems handling federal data. StateRAMP extends similar requirements to state-level systems. Infosys, HCL, and Wipro maintain US-citizen-only delivery teams for government work — but those teams are a carve-out from their core delivery model, not their core delivery model.
The cost advantage that makes offshore IT services attractive disappears when the compliance requirements of government technology procurement are applied. A FedRAMP-authorized delivery team operating from the US, staffed with cleared engineers, costs approximately the same as any other onshore engineering team. The offshore cost model does not apply to the government technology segment — which means the primary selling point of the offshore IT services model is not available.
Government technology modernization requires engineers who understand the specific technical architecture of government compliance frameworks — NIST 800-53 control implementation, FedRAMP boundary architecture, FISMA continuous monitoring requirements. These are specialized engineering skills that Infosys, HCL, and Wipro's government practices deliver through a combination of qualified engineers and compliance documentation that describes how those engineers satisfy the requirements.
What we deploy instead
Our government technology teams are onshore, qualified for FedRAMP, FISMA, and StateRAMP compliance, and deliver on fixed-price terms with defined technical milestones. The compliance architecture is engineered — not documented.
FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53 controls enforced at the infrastructure layer. Audit evidence generated automatically. The compliance posture is continuous — not assembled before the annual audit.
FEDRAMP and STATERAMP built into the architecture from day one — enforced automatically by ALICE at every commit.
Fixed-price engagements. Production system in 8-20 weeks. No discovery phase. No change orders.
Domain-qualified engineers with government experience. The senior engineer who scopes the engagement is the senior engineer who delivers it.
Full source code and documentation transferred at close. No licensing. No managed services dependency.
The compliance difference
FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, StateRAMP, CMMC for defense-adjacent work. Government compliance requires onshore delivery and compliance architecture that satisfies auditors, not documentation that describes a theoretically compliant process.
What switching from Infosys / HCL / Wipro looks like
Government technology engagement: 12-20 weeks. Team: 8-14 engineers with government compliance qualification. Fixed price. Full IP transfer.
Architecture review and scope definition. We review existing deliverables and identify gaps.
Scope locked, team assembled, first sprint underway. Working code from week two.
First production milestone — a working integration or system component, not a document.
Full IP transfer. Source code, documentation, operational runbooks. Your team runs the system.
Failed Vendor Recovery Playbook
Step-by-step framework for recovering from a failed Infosys / HCL / Wipro engagement — from emergency stabilisation through full re-platforming. 4-phase playbook covering stabilise, assess, transition, and normalise.