Census Bureau sets industry day as 2030 planning gets underway
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Nick Wakeman
The agency is planning a group of multiple-award pacts that would hire small businesses to help with application development and planning for the next census.
The Census Bureau is planning an industry for letter this month to explain more of its strategy for the 2030 population tally.
The agency released draft solicitation documents in April and received a large amount of questions.
Because of that, the bureau is hosting an industry day for what could be a $1 billion small business vehicle for up to 10 years. The agency is pushing to release a solicitation in August.
The contract will be a series of multiple-award blanket purchase agreements. One will be an enterprise BPA to support all bureau operations. It will cover tasks such as application development, data science and data management.
A separate pair of single-award BPAs will support the decennial program and geospatial initiatives.
The fourth BPA will be multiple-award and have three task areas – program management, IT program and project management, and architecture and engineering.
The industry day is planned for July 21 and will be virtual. No live Q&A will be conducted. The agency will post event materials on Sam.gov after the event.
Click on this link to register.
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