The Federal Aviation Administration is now ready for industry to start working on and submitting their proposals for the potential $4.1 billion recompete of a contract for acquiring commercial IT products.
Up to eight companies will win seats on the potential 10-year vehicle being called SAVES, short for Strategic Sourcing for the Acquisition of Various Supplies and Equipment.
Six of those positions are reserved for small businesses and the other two will be unrestricted awards, the FAA said in its Aug. 7 notice to release the final solicitation. Proposals for SAVES are due by Sept. 18 and only by email.
SAVES will continue to function as the Transportation Department’s mandatory use vehicle for standardized purchasing of commercial-off-the-shelf IT hardware and software, as well as cloud computing services.
For this new iteration of SAVES, the FAA is combining hardware and software requirements into a single contract as a departure from the current setup of two different contracts for each.
CDW-Government and MicroTech are incumbents on the software contract, which Deltek data says was awarded in the fall of 2021 and has seen $804.1 million in order volume flow through it since.
The hardware-focused contract awarded in 2019 counts CDW-G, Iron Bow Technologies, Red River Technology and Sirius Federal as incumbents. The FAA has obligated $716 million against that contract to-date.
Both contracts are scheduled to expire on Jan. 1.
