The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded 39 companies for the second-generation Tactical Communications contract (TACCOM II). The ceiling on the contract is $3 billion and is expected to last 5 years. The first-generation TACCOM also had a ceiling of $3 billion, but the actual spend was roughly $774 million per EZGovOpps data. Agencies other than DHS can leverage TACCOM II to order delivery of commodity items as they are made available from General Services Administration (GSA) and commercial catalogs....

The General Services Administration (GSA) is working on a unique version of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) $8.2 billion contract for civilians. The contract is based on cloud email and collaboration applications tentatively being called the Civilian Enterprise Office Solution (CEOS). Currently CEOS is in the beginning stages of development. The vehicle is expected to be similar to other recent federal contracts for the enhancement of cloud competencies for email and collaboration apps. The...

CIO-SP3 Small Business (SB), one of the vehicles in the CIO-SP3 program, was created to provide custom information technology (IT) solutions and services 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. Unfortunately, there have been some snags in the latest on-ramp. Biswas Information Technology Solutions, Chags Health Information Technology, ESAC Inc., Trillion Technology Solutions, and Shivoy Inc. all filed protests with the...

For decades, United States regional combatant commands, service component commands and other military organizations have leveraged the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, aka LOGCAP, to acquire construction, supply, logistics and other services. The first three LOGCAP contracts were awarded to single bidders in each round of competition. LOGCAP IV, awarded in June 2007, was split between three companies. Now in 2019, four prime contractors have been awarded positions on the fifth iteration of the 10-year (five year and five option years),...

Bad news for any of the 81 small businesses that were awarded a place on the decade’s largest IT contract. For the 10-year $15 billion ALLIANT 2 IT services contract vehicle, the court of federal claims has just ruled that the General Services Administration (GSA) will have to re-score every single bid for the small business portion. Since March 14, 2018, there have been various protests submitted to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the awards, and while many...

The General Services Administration has taken note that Geospatial information has been trending upward in importance for federal agencies. They are addressing this by adding eleven trusted vendors that can provide “Earth Observation Solutions” via Schedule 70 under a newly created special item number. BPAs were awarded to the following companies: Carahsoft, DigitalGlobe Intelligence Solutions, General Dynamics Information Technology, Geographic Services, Harris Corporation, Hexagon U.S. Federal, Leidos, MDA Information Systems, Observera, Sanborn Map Company and Wiser Imagery Services. Schedule 70...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is proceeding with the on-ramp on Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3 SB) IDIQ. The CIO-SP3 SB IDIQ is worth approximately $20 billion over the course of ten years and provides government agencies a mechanism to help meet socio-economic contracting goals for businesses meeting small business, WOSB, 8(a), SDVOSB, and HUBZone requirements. It includes 137 labor categories and ten task areas for various tech/IT requirements within the 541512 NAICS. The most...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just awarded a five-year, $325 million-dollar contract last week. This Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract includes both technical support services and research and development test and evaluation (RDT&E) and is called Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance III, or SETA III for short. SETA III provides support of the Science and Technology Directorate of DHS. Of the eighteen applicants, DHS chose four awardees: Engility Corporation, ManTech International, Noblis, and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). All...

The Department of State released a pre-solicitation for an 8(a) designated opportunity which includes the acquisition of vehicles, maintenance and repair of vehicles, and translation services. This is a multiple-award IDIQ (indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity) contract with the RFP (request for proposal) expected to be release on or about March 2019. It is expected that three awardees with the 8(a) set-aside will be awarded for this five-year IDIQ, and there is a potential 6-month extension period. This requirement has already been accepted...

The Navy just awarded 1,870 companies for the professional services SeaPort Next Generation contract (Seaport NxG). Click here to view the awardees. The previous SeaPort-e multiple award contract (MAC) stretches all the way back to 2001 and includes about $5 billion in task orders annually. There are numerous changes from Seaport-e and NxG, including no zone restrictions on bidding, broad functional areas (divided into engineering support services and program management support services), high emphasis on past performance, increased efficiency in ordering,...