Author: Brenda Marie Rivers|| Date Published: October 4, 2019
The General Services Administration has selected three small businesses for a potential five-year, $96M contract for virtual desktop infrastructure support to the U.S. Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii.
3IT Consulting, G.C. Associates and Galapagos will compete for fixed-price orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, GSA said in FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday.
The program’s request for proposals document stated that the multiple-award IDIQ would involve IT engineering, design, implementation and program management support for PACAF™s virtualization system and SecureView cross-domain machine hosting platform at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam.
According to a performance work statement, contractors will support PACAF™s business and end-user computing equipment designed to support command, control, communications, computers, intelligence and cyber functions.
PACAF is a U.S. Air Force component with an area of responsibility that spans 36 nations and 16 time zones. The command sought industry support to ensure continued operations in a disconnected-intermittent-low bandwidth environment. The GSA awarded the contract after an SBA 8(a) solicitation process.
Melissa Bischoping, senior director of security and product design research at Tanium, said adopting agentic artificial intelligence and other autonomous…
