Air Force Looks to Finish Awarding $24B Networking, IT IDIQ in ’12
The U.S. Air Force is looking to award the rest of a $24.2 billion networking and information technology contract in the second and third quarters of calendar year 2012, Defense Systems reported.
The Network-Centric Solutions-2 communications program, which dates back to 2009, supports management and planning for IT and net-centric changes and implementation.
“So many people that bid on these programs and expressed interest that it was a huge task to go through the source selection,” Air Force Senior Acqusition Executive David Van Buren told Defense Systems.
“We fully intend to award these contracts in the second and third quarters of this calendar year.”
NETCENTS-2 is a follow-on of the Air Force’s original NETCENTS program, valued at $9 billion over five years for hardware and software development, system integration, networking and security services.
According to FedBizOpps, nearly $11 billion of NETCENTS-2 is open to small businesses.
Van Buren said initial NETCENTS-2 awards for enterprise integration and service management were handed out in November 2010 and the awards are currently in source selection, Defense Systems reported.
CACI International Inc. (NYSE: CACI) won a position on NETCENTS-2 in February 2011 for engineering integration and service management support. CACI said its award has a ceiling value of $460 million over three base years and two one-year options.
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