GSA makes 61 awards on $50B Alliant 2 vehicle

The General Services Administration has made its much-anticipated awards on the potential 10-year, $50 billion Alliant 2 contract for IT and professional services.

Sixty-one companies have made the cut for the Alliant 2 Unrestricted contract that contains a five-year base period and a five-year option, GSA disclosed in a FedBizOpps notice Friday. Alliant 2 Unrestricted is structured as a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

That 61 number for winners is one more than GSA had previously indicated. Awards for the Alliant 2 Small Business track "will be announced separately in the near future," GSA said Friday on its Interact website. The agency anticipates 80 awards for the small business component with a $15 billion ceiling.

GSA released the Alliant 2 request for proposals in June 2016 after more than a year of deep discussions with industry about the contract's size, scope and other specifications. Proposals were submitted later that summer and GSA had anticipated it would make awards by the end of this year.

Pre-award protests created a delay but the Government Accountability Office ruled in GSA's favor in January of this year -- perhaps in a way that makes these awards final. Barring any protests on the new awards, the predecessor potential $15 billion Alliant 1 contract awarded in 2009 is slated to expire on April 30, 2019.

Of the 61 winners, 25 are new to the Alliant program and didn't hold positions on Alliant 1 or Alliant Small Business. Among the newcomers are CenturyLink, Maximus and ICF. Two companies in ECS Federal and Agile Defense Inc. moved up from Alliant Small Business.

Eighteen companies from Alliant 1 were not listed as winners of Alliant 2. But it is not known whether these companies bid and lost or did not bid at all.

Alliant 2 Unrestricted winners are:

• Accenture Federal Services
• Ace Info Solutions
• ActioNet
• Agile Defense Inc.
• American Systems Corp.
• AT&T Government Solutions
• BAE Systems Inc.
• Battelle Memorial Institute
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• By Light Professional IT Services
• CACI International
• Camber Corp. (acquired by Huntington Ingalls Industries)
• Catapult Technology
• CenturyLink
• CGI Federal
• CSRA
• Data Networks Corp.
• Data Systems Analysts
• Dell Services Federal Government (acquired by NTT Data)
• Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Digital Management Inc.
• DRS Global Enterprise Solutions (part of Leonardo DRS)
• Dynetics
• ECS Federal
• Engility Corp.
• Enterprise Information Services
• EOIR Technologies (acquired and now part of Polaris Alpha)
• General Dynamics Information Technology
• HP Enterprise Services (merged with CSC to create DXC Technology)
• ICF
• Indus Corp.
• IBM
• Jacobs Technology
• Leidos
• Lockheed Martin
• ManTech International
• MAXIMUS
• NCI Inc.
• NJVC
• Northrop Grumman
• Parsons Government Services
• Phacil
• Planned Systems International
• Pragmatics
• Quality Software Services
• Raytheon
• REI Systems
• Salient CRGT
• Science Applications International Corp.
• Serco Inc.
• Sevatec
• Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies
• Smartronix
• Sotera Defense Solutions (acquired by KeyW Corp.)
• STG Inc.
• Telos Corp.
• Unisys Corp.
• URS Federal Services (acquired by AECOM)
• VariQ Corp.
• Vencore
• Wyle Laboratories (acquired by KBR)

It should be noted that DXC is spinning off its U.S. government business and merging it with Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions to form a new company.