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Nasa sewp 5 task order awards8/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While EZGovOpps has covered the continued growth of Schedule 70 with new services ranging from cybersecurity, to health IT, to a possible GIS-related Special Item Number (SIN), NASA and SEWP have made similar strides in expanding the scopes of their GWACs. GSA access fees on both the GWACs and the IT Schedule 70 have held steady, and the Schedule 70 CAF has not changed in more than 15 years. NITAAC, however, has taken progressive steps to lower the CIO-SP3 and CIO-CS fees since 2016. NASA’s SEWP V has held a lower CAF since it’s replacement of SEWP IV in 2015. Take a look at the CAFs for the various GWACs below: GWAC In an effort to compete with these GWACs, as well the massive IT Schedule 70, NASA and NITAAC have taken strides to lower the contract access fees (CAFs), the payment another agency is required to pay in order to utilize the GWAC. The GSA GWACs mentioned above have obviously been very successful in linking up companies providing IT services and interested Federal agencies. ![]() Out of the $23.5 billion awarded in that same period of time, 8(a) STARS II has only awarded a little over $4.8 billion, or 20.5% of all award dollars. However, awarding the most task orders has not translated into awarding the most funding. From 2012 to 2016, 8(a) STARS II has been awarded the highest number of task orders in the GSA group, averaging almost 74% of all tasks orders in those years. Since 2009, Alliant, which “allows for long-term planning of large-scale program requirements” and “provides flexible access to customized IT solutions from a large, diverse pool of industry partners” has, along with its fellow Small Business GWAC, has awarded over $20 billion since starting in 2009, and is scheduled to end in 2019 with replacements worth $50 billion and $15 billion for SB’s on the way.įinally, the GSA 8(a) STARS II small-business set-aside GWAC, since it’s start in 2011, has awarded over $5 billion dollars. VETS has awarded $2 billion since 2007 through 364 task orders, reaching a peak in 2011 with $385.7 million awarded that year. GSA‘s first GWAC, Veterans Technology Services (VETS), was awarded in 2007 as a $5 billion vehicle for services from service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses. GSA Headquarters (Courtesy of Cliff via Flickr) Chief Information Officer – Commodities Solutions (CIO-CS), with a NAICS code of 541519.Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3 SB), with a NAICS code of 541512.Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3), with a NAICS code of 541512.NITAAC holds 3 major GWACs, each with a 10-year Period of Performance and a ceiling of $20 billion: SEWP V is broken into two Categories, A and B, with respective primary NAICS codes of 334111 -Electronic Computer Manufacturing- and 541519 -Other Computer Related Services. The NASA SEWP GWAC started in 1993 as an $800 million contract focused on “Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement.” Now, after 4 more iterations, what started as a Unix workstation procurement contract worth less than $1 billion has become SEWP V, a $10.5 billion vehicle with a total of 145 cleared companies that was awarded in 2015. All of them show a steady increase in the use of GWACs for technology procurement. GWAC Snapshotįour major GWACs are handled by the General Services Administration, but NASA and the NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) have been steadily working to compete with GSA through their own GWACs. Companies must compete for separate task orders submitted by the agencies, and the company selected as the source for that task order is then awarded. Once a company has been granted a spot on a GWAC (which must first be approved by the Office of Management and Budget before proposals are solicited), that does not guarantee that they will receive business. In a GWAC, these services are always related to technology, but the most important difference is that any Federal agency can utilize the contracts, not just the agency which awarded it. For those getting started in the Federal contracting space, we thought it would be helpful to describe the mechanisms, advantages, and disadvantages of a GWAC.Ī GWAC is very similar to a Multiple-Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (MA IDIQ) contract, where contracts are awarded to to multiple vendors for goods and services. EZGovOpps has published reports on many Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), including CIO-SP3 from the NIH and SEWP V. ![]()
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