JV secures Agriculture end user support order

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A mentor-protege joint venture secures a $37 million contract for end user IT support services to the Agriculture Department.

A joint venture of Evolver and Key Concepts Knowledgebase has secured a five-year, $37 million contract for end user IT support services to the Agriculture Department.

The award to Ideation Solutions covers work in the Washington, D.C. area and was awarded through the CIO-SP3 Small Business contract vehicle’s on-ramp, the companies said in a release Monday.

Ideation Solutions is an 8(a) mentor-protege joint venture in which Key Concepts Knowledgebase is the managing partner and Evolver is the mentor. The JV pursues seven task areas for CIO-Sp3 including biomedical and health, integration services, software development and critical infrastructure protection.

Evolver is a subsidiary of Converged Security Solutions, a cyber outfit formed through a merger two years ago between Evolver and eVigilant Security.