The Army has awarded 49 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $10 billion contract covering the supply of commercial IT hardware and related services.
Small businesses represent 40 winners of the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-4 Hardware vehicle and the other nine pursued the full-and-open track, according to the Pentagon’s Wednesday contracts digest.
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They will compete for delivery orders to supply products such as servers, workstations, thin clients, desktop computers, notebook computers, storage systems, networking equipment, imaging equipment and support devices.
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Army officials also wanted bidders to outline a variety of potential finance options for offerings such as on-premise leasing of computing resources, data processing systems and data storage options.
Proposals for ITES-4H were originally due in October 2022, but the evaluation process took approximately three years to work through after several companies filed pre-award protests following their elimination from the competition.
In February, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge rejected seven outstanding protests and sided with the Army’s decision to render those bids as not compliant with the solicitation. That ruling ended the pre-award protest phase and essentially cleared the Army to make awards.
Post-award protests are still likely of course, given the size and specs of the contract, along with the volume of proposals the Army had to read through.
The current ITES-3H vehicle opened for business in 2016 and approximately $4.8 billion has flowed through it since. Deltek data points to Feb. 21 as the last date-to order.
