On May 2nd, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded fourteen contracts under the Large Business portion of the Encore II program to go along with the twelve Small Business contracts awarded the end of April.
The Encore program is available to virtually any DoD Program Manager with an IT requirement. Here’s the description of the program from the FedBizOpps web site:
ENCORE II will establish multiple-award Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity
(ID/IQ) task order type contracts capable of providing global net-centric
capabilities, attributes or services that support the military services, the DoD
and other Federal agencies. The ENCORE II contracts will provide net-centric
solutions, including network engineering, analysis and support for the
acquisition, installation, fielding, training, operation and life-cycle
management of components and systems in the operational environments of
Combatant Commands and their subordinate components, the military services, the
Department of Defense and other agencies of Federal government. This includes
procurement of various products, including but not limited to, hardware,
software and licenses, as applicable, when such products are incidental to the
implementation of the solution, through separate task orders to satisfy IT
activities at all operating levels. Areas to be supported by the contracts
include Command and Control (C2), Intelligence and Mission Support Areas and to
all elements of the Global Information Grid (GIG). Tasks performed under the
ENCORE II contracts will include enterprise IT policy and planning, integrated
solutions management, performance benchmarking, business process reengineering,
requirement analysis, market research and prototyping, information and knowledge
engineering, custom application development, product integration, test and
evaluation, asset management, communications engineering, security engineering
certification and accreditation, telecommunications support, computer-telephony
integration, web services, hardware and equipment, software applications and
licenses and managed services.
If this sounds a lot like Alliant, it is, but with a distinctly military spin! With the Alliant contracts on hold through at least the end of the year, there is a lot of pent-up demand for IT contracting vehicles. And, a lot of the money behind that demand is in DOD. Between the new DoD restrictions on interagency procurement and the dearth of vehicles currently available for IT, I can’t help but wonder how long that $12.2 Billion program ceiling will last?
The contracts have a start date of 1 June. Since the awards were announced, the companies have been marketing their new vehicles, preparing to accept orders and creating or implementing the systems and organizations promised in their proposals.
I wonder what Monday will bring?
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