The Top 20 Federal Programs/Contract Vehicles for 2023 12-30-22 Obtaining federal contracts can be highly competitive, especially for larger contractors and top-performing firms who often compete with each other for major contract awards as prime contractors. However, with access to the right resources, contractors of all sizes can effectively secure new government contracts and establish a more stable business development pipeline. One key to success is using federal market intelligence to create a long-term strategy to compete for large programs...

GSA Releases Draft RFP for Alliant 3 IT Contract 10/20/2022 The General Services Administration (GSA) has just released the draft RFP for the Alliant 3 IT contract vehicle. Companies that provide information technology products and services will want to check out the 159-page document ASAP. GSA will be accepting questions and feedback on the draft until January 6, 2023. The government has confirmed that there will be substantial subcontracting opportunities for small business, including veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small...

Initial Air Force EITaaS Enterprise IT BPA Contract Awarded 9/2/2022 The Air Force has awarded the first wave of the Enterprise IT as a Service (EITaaS) contract to CACI International and nine other group members. EITaaS can be expanded to a 10-year length and has an award ceiling of $5.7 billion. It is a contract for enterprise- IT support services to the Air Force as the agency seeks to outsource more technology services to third parties. The other businesses working...

ProTech 2.0 Industry Day Reveals New Program Info 8/26/2022 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently hosted an Industry Day with fresh news on the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (ProTech) 2.0 program. Like the original, ProTech 2.0 features a total of four multiple-award Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contracts. (The original actually had five domains in its inception, but Enterprise Ops was never awarded.) These four IDIQs each represent different domains including Satellite, Fisheries, Oceans, and Weather. The domains offer...

GSA Announces Alliant 3 IT Contract for Q4 2022 6/19/2022 The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced that market research for the quickly developing Alliant 3 IT contract vehicle making great progress. Companies that provide information technology products and services will want to take note. The current trajectory is to release the draft solicitation in the fourth quarter of the calendar year. The previous iteration, Alliant 2, began in 2018 and a total of 61 companies were awarded a seat...

GSA Releases RFI for Ascend Cloud Services Contract Vehicle 8/5/2022 The General Services Administration (GSA) released a request for information (RFI) regarding its plans for a multi-purpose, multi-award contract (MAC) called Ascend. Ascend is a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for cloud services and solutions that will be available to all federal agencies. Firms that wish to offer their services to agencies via Ascend will need to fulfill the authorized vendor responsibilities. These are described in the performance work statement included...

EPA awards 11 for EARTH Support Services BPA worth $5.7B 7/22/22 Of the thirteen businesses that applied for a seat on the EARTH (Environmental, Analytical, Research, Technical, and Hybrid) Support Services BPA (blank purchase agreement), a total of eleven were awarded. The solicitation was released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) just over a year ago in June 2021 and submissions were collected shortly thereafter. The value ceiling on the 5-year long EARTH BPA...

Navy Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems (CEIS) IDIQ 7/15/22 The U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center is now requesting proposals for the 2022 Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems (CEIS) IDIQ. This contract provides support and sustainment of combat instrumentation platforms used at training and test and evaluation (T and T) ranges. The opportunity falls under NAICS 334511 which is search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical system and instrument manufacturing. The potential ceiling for this IDIQ is $249.9 million. It is a follow on...

Army CHS-6 Common Hardware Systems RFP Coming Soon 7/12/22 Last week the U.S. Army issued the synopsis for the upcoming Common Hardware Systems 6th Generation (CHS-6) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The ceiling on this solicitation is approximately $7.9 billion and will run a maximum of 10 years (4-year base period with two 3-year option periods). The Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Division B, is planning on releasing the request for proposal (RFP) very soon in support of Program Executive Office...