How Government Contractors Can Use Knox to Fast-Track Their Subcontractors’ FedRAMP Compliance

The Challenge: Federal government and DoD Prime Contractors and the Compliance Burden

Government contractors are increasingly under pressure to ensure their subcontractors meet FedRAMP and DISA requirements when cloud services are involved. Whether it’s an integrator responding to a large IDIQ or a solutions prime onboarding innovative SaaS vendors, compliance bottlenecks can jeopardize proposals, timelines, and delivery.

The reality is that most subcontractors, especially startups or small SaaS vendors, do not have the time, infrastructure, or budget to pursue FedRAMP authorization on their own. Primes are left with a choice: exclude those vendors, absorb risk, or delay.

Knox offers a better way.

The Solution: Extend Knox’s FedRAMP-Authorized Boundary to Your Vendor Stack

Knox Systems provides a FedRAMP-authorized boundary-as-a-service that prime contractors can leverage to accelerate compliance for their entire delivery team. With Knox, subcontractors can plug into a pre-authorized infrastructure and inherit up to 80% of the security controls they would otherwise have to implement and document from scratch.

This means:

• No need to re-architect their platform
• No costly FedRAMP consulting engagements
• No 12- to 18-month delays

Instead, subcontractors can align with FedRAMP Moderate or DISA IL4 requirements in 90 days or less, with Knox providing the inherited controls, automated documentation, and continuous monitoring support.

Benefits for Prime Contractors

When you include Knox in your proposal stack:

*De-risk your subcontractors: Knox brings them into FedRAMP alignment quickly

*Win faster: Meet agency compliance expectations without the lag

*Improve scoring: Strengthen your response with a documented compliance plan

*Reduce program cost: Shared security means no redundant control implementation

*Offer scale: Knox supports multi-tenant onboarding for repeatable use

Whether you’re responding to a DoD RFP or a civilian agency task order, Knox can be the compliance muscle behind your modernization play.

The Knox Advantage: More Than Infrastructure

In addition to our FedRAMP boundary, Knox provides:

• CMX Platform — our compliance automation tool that simplifies documentation, POA&M tracking, and evidence generation
• Compliance Onboarding Kits — built specifically for subcontractors joining a FedRAMP or DISA-authorized solution
• Professional Services — advisory and documentation support to ensure each vendor is audit-ready

We work directly with primes to create pre-approved onboarding paths that your sub-awardees can follow.

Ready to Include Knox in Your Proposal Stack?

If you’re a government contractor looking to strengthen your proposals and accelerate delivery with compliant subcontractors, Knox is your trusted partner. We enable you to bring innovation to the table without compromising trust, security, or compliance.

Let’s talk about how to include Knox in your next bid.

Contact us today to build your compliance-enabled delivery team.

TL;DR

Prime contractors can significantly reduce risk and proposal delays by extending Knox’s FedRAMP-authorized infrastructure to their subcontractors. With Knox’s boundary-as-a-service and compliance automation tools, vendors can inherit key security controls and align with FedRAMP or DISA requirements in as little as 90 days—without rebuilding their tech stack or hiring consultants. It’s faster, cheaper, and purpose-built for government contracting success.

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