DHS awards PACTS contract

The Homeland Security Department has named 35 winners of its $1.5 billion small-business set-aside contract for professional services that was announced a year ago. Competition was limited to businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.

The Program Management, Administrative, Clerical and Technical Services (PACTS) contract is designed to provide a broad range of professional support services, except information technology services. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a maximum value of $1.5 billion.

Future task orders under the PACTS contract might be among the first to be subjected to the mandatory reviews announced May 28 by Secretary Janet Napolitano, said Jeremy Potter, a senior analyst at Input Inc., a market research firm in Reston, Va.

Napolitano said officials will review all new professional services contracts worth $1 million or more to determine if the work was inherently governmental or involved core functions that government employees should perform. PACTS is one of the largest professional services contracts expected to generate task orders in the coming months, Potter said.

On June 19, DHS published a list of “apparently successful” offerers that responded to a solicitation issued in June 2008. The 35 winners include eight companies in Functional Category 1-Program Management, 10 companies in Functional Category 2-Administrative, seven companies in Functional Category 3-Clerical and 10 companies in Functional Category 4-Technical Services.

The winning companies in the four categories are:

Category 1-Program Management

• Best Value Technology
• Klett Consulting Group
• Loch Harbour Group
• Longview-FedConsulting
• Markon Solutions
• Savvee Consulting
• Teracore
• Winbourne and Costas

Category 2-Administrative

• CTI Resource Management Services
• DS3 Computing Solutions
• HCI
• Kingfisher Systems
• Longview-FedConsulting
• Patricio Enterprises
• Strategic Alliance Enterprises
• Veterans Enterprise Technology Solutions
• Vet-Fed Resources
• Winbourne and Costas

Category 3-Clerical

• Addx
• Centuria
• imPACTS
• Kingfisher Systems
• Szanca Solutions
• TAPE
• Winbourne and Costas

Category 4-Technical Services

• Best Value Technology
• EmeSec
• imPACTS
• KMEA
• LRS Federal
• Serrano IT Services
• Solute Consulting
• Strategic Alliance Enterprises
• Ursa Navigation Solutions
• Vetco