Library of Congress tries again at $450M agile development vehicle awards
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Ross Wilkers
The agency sticks with the original number of eight awardees, but the mix is different following a re-evaluation of bids.
The Library of Congress has made a second attempt at awarding a five-year, $450 million contract vehicle for broad technology modernization services in support of IT systems and software applications.
Eight companies originally won seats on the contract in October 2023, but two companies successfully protested the awards and got a second chance at the contract.
In a January 2024 ruling, the Government Accountability Office told the Library of Congress it should take a different approach to the best-value tradeoff analysis and make another award decision after re-evaluating proposals. The agency received 57 bids and 51 were deemed compliant.
That redo is over and the number of Agile System Development Support Services contract winners remains the same at eight. But there are some changes to the mix, based on the new awardee list published Friday.
Pending debriefs and possible protests, the group of primes is as follows:
- 22nd Century Technologies
- Accenture Federal Services
- Ad Hoc
- CGI Federal
- Gunnison Consulting Group
- ICF
- NIC Federal
- Slalom
Awardees will compete for task orders in work areas such as agile software development; systems integration, the DevOps software practice and continuous delivery methods, and user experience and interface design services.
Business analysis and requirements support services, project management support or quality control and testing support are also covered under the contract but not available as standalone services.