FBI Starts Over On Enterprise IT Recompete With New Draft Solicitation

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https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/05/fbi-starts-over-enterprise-it-recompete-new-draft-solicitation/156775/

By Aaron Boyd
Senior Editor
Nextgov
May 6, 2019

The FBI released a revised draft solicitation for its enterprise IT services
contract once valued at $5 billion. The new solicitation does not include a
projected dollar figure for the life of the contract but does have some changes
from previous drafts, including a new technical track and update on the number
of expected awards.

The Information Technology Enterprise Contract Services, or ITECS, contract—the
renamed recompete for the Information Technology Supplies and Support Services,
or ITSSS—was posted to eBuy last week.

The recompete has been over a year in the making. Initially, the agency
considered breaking ITSSS into separate contracts. Contracting officials
determined a single IT contract would suffice and later decided to award a
blanket purchase agreement using pre-vetted vendors on the General Services
Administration’s IT Schedule 70 rather than hold a full and open competition.
After all those changes and a historic government shutdown to start the year,
contracting officials decided to pull the existing solicitation and restart with
a new draft request for quotes.

The previous changes remain in the latest draft RFQ, which Nextgov obtained
through analysts at The Pulse of GovCon. However, the new solicitation includes
an additional technical track and redistributes the planned awards across large
and small business tracks, rather than multiple awards for each function area.

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