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FBI Starts Over On Enterprise IT Recompete With New Draft Solicitation
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 09:43:47 +0000 (UTC)
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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