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SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, today announced it has been added to the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint Cloud Solutions contract held by Carahsoft Technology Corp. The contract addition enables Carahsoft to provide Snowflakes Data Cloud technology and platform capabilities to participating states, local governments and educational institutions. Snowflake is uniquely positioned to help government organizations leverage data as a strategic asset to increase the effectiveness of government programs and improve citizen services. With Snowflakes platform, organizations can avoid managing infrastructure and focus on putting their valuable data to use. Snowflakes Secure Data Sharing capabilities help break down data silos within and across public sector organizations, drive collaboration, and deliver easy, fast and secure data access on Snowflakes single, integrated platform. NASPO ValuePoint is a cooperative purchasing program facilitating public procurement solicitations and agreements using a lead-state model. The program provides the highest standard of excellence in public cooperative contracting. By leveraging the leadership and expertise of all states and the purchasing power of their public entities, NASPO ValuePoint delivers the highest valued, reliable and competitively sourced contracts, offering public entities outstanding pricing. Our addition to the NASPO Valuepoint Cloud Solutions contract opens the door for state and local municipalities to be able to leverage Snowflakes Data Cloud for mobilizing their data resources to better serve their citizens, said Snowflake Regional Vice President - Public Sector, Ted Girard. This announcement is another example of our commitment to helping government organizations realize the most value out of their data. We look forward to working with Snowflake and our reseller partners to provide innovative cloud-based data solutions to NASPO members to enable data mobilization and advance their missions, said Steve Jacyna, Director of the Snowflake team at Carahsoft. Snowflake Data Cloud delivers an advanced enterprise-ready cloud platform and helps customers securely maximize their data and essential workloads. We are thrilled to include Snowflake on this contract to give our joint public sector customers access to Snowflakes solutions portfolio. Snowflakes Data Cloud platform and additional data sharing solutions are available through NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement #AR2472. For more information, contact the Snowflake team at Carahsoft at (703) 889-9726 or Snowflake@carahsoft.com. About Snowflake Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflakes platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the Data Cloud. Snowflake.com.

Answer: Snowflake Added to NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions Contract, Enabling State and Local Governments With Secured, Governed Access to Data Government organizations can now leverage Snowflakes Data Cloud through the NASPO Cloud Solutions Portfolio