ENCORE III Small Business Set-Aside Suite now available

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s ENCORE III Small Business Set-Aside Suite is now available. This contracting vehicle provides a full range of information technology (IT) services and solutions required by the Department of Defense, other federal agencies, and the intelligence community.

The long-awaited follow-on vehicle to ENCORE II provides services ranging from engineering development to full sustainment under a suite of multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contracts not to exceed $17.5 billion.

The ENCORE III Full and Open Large Business Suite was awarded in March, ushering the way for the Small Business Set-Aside Suite.

Twenty small businesses on the ENCORE III contract will provide teams of contractors with significant breadth and depth of IT services experience and capability in 19 performance areas.

“One of the key advantages of leveraging the ENCORE III vehicle is that mission partners are able to team with us to determine the best acquisition strategy for their task,” said Steve Francoeur, ENCORE III contracting officer. “Together, we are able to determine whether a best-value-trade-off or lowest price technically acceptable approach fits the mission requirement.”

The 19 performance areas included in the ENCORE III performance work statement are:

• Enterprise IT Policy and Planning.
• Integrated Solutions Management.
• Process, Performance, and Strategic Benchmarking.
• Business Process Reengineering.
• Requirements Analysis.
• Market Research and Prototyping.
• Information and Knowledge Management.
• Custom Application Development.
• Product Integration.
• Test and Evaluation.
• Asset Management.
• Network Support.
• Cyber Security Assessment, Authorization, and Authorization.
• Information Communications Technology.
• Computer-Telephony Integration.
• Web Services.
• Operations Support.
• IT Support Services.
• Cloud Professional Services.

The 20 Small Business Set-Aside Suite contractors are Siertek-Peerless JV, LLC; Amyx, Inc.; ASRC Communications, LTD; Compqsoft, Inc.; Credence Management Solutions, LLC; Data Computer Corporation of America; Defense Solutions Group, LLC; Encore III Partners, LLC; FEDITC, LLC; Global Consulting International, Inc.; Innovations JV, LLC; Integral Consulting Services, Inc.; Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.; Madian IT Solutions, LLC; Mission Services, LLC; New Generation Solutions, LLC; Riverside Engineering, LLC; Superior Government Solutions, LLC; Team CSI JV, LLC; and VSolvit, LLC.

For more information or ordering instructions, please visit the Encore III Small Business Set-Aside webpage at https://www.ditco.disa.mil/contracts/?vc=ENCOR3SB.

Posted September 10, 2018