CIO-SP3 Small Business (SB) is one of the vehicles in the $20 billion CIO-SP3 program. This was created to provide custom information technology (IT) integration and outsourcing support for five different socio-economic set-asides. This vehicle has been relatively successful since its original awarding in 2012, with a number of small businesses outgrowing their SB status while providing CIO-SP3 services. Agencies leverage this contract vehicle to purchase IT services in areas such as systems integration and software development, imaging, healthcare technology,...

Continuing the trend of Program/IDIQ consolidation in the federal space, The GSA released the ASTRO IDIQ. ASTRO is MAC vehicle created to meet the requirements of warfighters, scoped in collaboration with U.S. Combatant Commands.  It is intended to supplement DoD capabilities to ensure interoperability, flexibility and assurance on the modern-day battlefield. Sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD), The program will be managed by GSA’s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM). ASTRO is a FEDSIM-only program (not Government-wide), and...

The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has been looking for a vendor to continue supporting the Healthcare.gov website. The site provides a health information exchange (HIE) portal that requires significant vendor support/maintenance. The latest 5-year contract clocks in at $398 million. Accenture is the incumbent who began support services for the portal in 2014 with a $45 million contract due to difficulties experienced by CGI Federal during the launch phase. The company then received a $536 million contract...

Recently the General Services Administration (GSA) has been dispatching Mass Modification notifications to schedule-holders. These notices describe the second phase of modifications that consolidate 24 Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) into one single schedule for products, services, and solutions. The consolidated MAS solicitation, which was issued last October, has a streamlined format and new categories and Special Item Numbers (SINs). Everything seems to be on schedule with the mass mods going out on January 30th, associating contract terms with the single...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) completed the final set of awards on ProTech, a service-related contract vehicle. Twenty-two companies in total were awarded for the “Weather” portion of the vehicle, which is NOAA’s mandated strategic sourcing vehicle to consolidate services into a single procurement. The Weather track is one of four portions of ProTech. The others include Oceans, Satellite and Fisheries. ProTech has a ceiling of $3 billion for its two-year base and three option years, and a...

The Army awarded 22 companies for the up to 10-year, $5.1 billion Global Tactical Advanced Communication Systems II (GTACS II). Nearly all companies that provided proposals were awarded by the Army Contracting Command, with only two not selected. GTACS II is a follow-on vehicle to the $10 billion GTACS which was awarded to 20 companies in 2012. Companies that were on the original vehicle and not on this second iteration include: CACI, L3 Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Rockwell...

The $13.4 billion Small Business Enterprise Applications Solutions contract vehicle known as SBEAS is a follow on to the Air Force’s original NetCents 2 Application Services Small Business contract. The Air Force will use SBEAS to acquire IT systems, software development, cybersecurity, configuration management, deployment, technology modernization, training, operations, commercial off-the-shelf product management, business analysis for IT programs, information display services, and data/information services. Like the original NetCents, it has been fraught with protests, including 37 total protests from 27...