DHS still deep into PACTS III evaluations
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Nick Wakeman
The potential $8.4 billion small business contract cleared the protest hurdle several months ago, but the Homeland Security Department is still working through all the proposals and has not set a date for awards.
It has been five months the Homeland Security Department fended off several pre-award protests against the PACTS III procurement, but the awards are still pending.
The Program Management, Administrative, Clerical and Technical Services III contract is a small business set-aside vehicle with a ceiling of $8.4 billion over up to 10 years.
Proposals were due in March and several protests followed. But by July, the Government Accountability Office cleared all of those.
Since then, DHS has posted several notices on Sam.gov saying the agency was still evaluating proposals and a date for awards still had not been established.
DHS' latest notice to that effect came out on Monday.
The current PACTS II contract has 41 primes that provide DHS services such as financial planning, records management, web design, database design, acquisition support, program management support, analysis and technical writing.
According to Deltek, DHS has obligated $1.3 billion through PACTS II. The current contract has a $1.5 billion ceiling and a scheduled sunset date of Feb. 28.