Transportation adds digital services to 1DOT initiative with possible $1.9B pact

The Transportation Department is adding digital services to 1DOT, an initiative to modernize and unify its IT infrastructure.

In addition to that, the department is also planning a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement focused on 1DOT.

Secretary Sean Duffy announced 1DOT in August. Then in December, Transportation signed a contract with Google to adopt its cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools.

In this latest move, the department is focusing on software development in setting up the 1DOT Digital Services BPA. Transportation expects to release the final solicitation in August and a estimates a ceiling value of between $1 billion and $1.9 billion, according to a Thursday posting on AcquisitionGateway.gov.

The 1DOT Digital Services BPA will replace the Software Engineering Support 2.0 pact, which previously was under development. To bridge the gap, the department extended the SWES 1.0 BPAs until the end of September.

The new BPA will have a small business pool and an unrestricted pool. The small business pool will be default pool for most tasks with complex, cross-modal projects going to the unrestricted pool.

Transportation is setting up the BPA to acquire specialized software engineering, agile development, cloud-native architecture, artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for both mission specific and department-wide applications.

Transportation expects the BPA to run from March 2027 through March 2035.