EXPRESS Yourself: Up to $848M to SAIC for US Army AMRDEC Support

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) received a follow-on task order from the US Army Aviation and Missile Lifecycle Management Command (AMCOM) to provide professional and engineering support services to the Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC). The single award, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity task order has a 5-year period of performance and a ceiling value of $848 million. The task order was awarded under the AMCOM Expedited Professional & Engineering Support Services (EXPRESS) contract vehicle, which has a total ceiling of $7.7 billion. Originally established in 2005, the AMCOM EXPRESS contract vehicle is a group of multiple award Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) leveraging commercial processes established by the GSA schedules program and incorporating teaming arrangements for task orders to support AMCOM and its customers. There are 31 BPA holders under the AMCOM EXPRESS program. As of Sept 30/09, 299 competitive task orders had been awarded under the AMCOM EXPRESS program, obligating approximately $3.23 billion. The program provides support to small business programs with 67% of all orders and 48% of current funding obligations being awarded to small businesses. The BPAs contain a provision allowing team leaders to propose that task order awards be made directly to small business […]