Army adds another pair to $610M training support vehicle
A ceremony held at Army Training Support Center, Jopint Base Langley - Eustis in November 2022. Photo by Robin Hicks / U.S. Army Training Support Center
By
Ross Wilkers
The contract now has 10 businesses in total to compete for work in support of the Army Training Support Center.
The Army has added two more companies to a potential five-year, $610 million contract for broad professional services that aid the military branch’s training support center.
With that move, the contract now has 10 businesses in total that are competing for task orders to perform the work. Lexicon Consulting and Lukos are the newest firms to join the vehicle, as indicated in the Pentagon's Monday awards digest.
They join a group of seven original awardees that were selected in the summer of 2023 and an eighth in Core Government Services, which got a re-evaluation of its bid following a protest and received an award later that winter.
Like with Core, Lukos filed a protest after it was not included in the original round of awards. Lexicon did not challenge its exclusion from an award, but apparently got a second look at its bid as part of the Army's corrective action.
The Army received 16 bids in total for this second iteration of the the Training Support Systems Enterprise program known as TSS-E, which supports the Army Training Support Center.
The center is working to push out more live, virtual and constructive training environments that have a gaming element across the entire Army. Service branch leaders want trainees to have more realistic scenarios for their preparation.