BPA Call 88310321A00016-88310324F00256

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has awarded a contract to Communications Training Analysis Corporation (Ctac), a small business IT services provider based in Falls Church, Virginia, for AWS cloud hosting services under Option Year III of its Platform and Infrastructure Cloud for Archives and Records Depositories (PICARD) program. This Time and Materials contract, issued as a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) call on September 30, 2024, carries a ceiling value of $11.7M and includes both full and incremental funding components. The award was made without a set-aside designation, and services will be performed in Berwyn Heights, Maryland, with completion targeted for October 22, 2025. Ctac leverages Amazon Web Services infrastructure to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions as part of NARA's broader cloud modernization and records management initiatives.

This contract represents a continuation of Ctac's substantial engagement with NARA's PICARD program, which operates under an $86M BPA that provides comprehensive cloud hosting and infrastructure services to support the agency's archives and records management operations. Ctac's award reflects its established expertise in federal cloud environments, FedRAMP compliance, and enterprise IT infrastructure—capabilities demonstrated through extensive prior work with civilian agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Interior, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The Time and Materials pricing structure allows NARA flexibility in scaling cloud resources to meet evolving archival and records depositories requirements throughout the option year period.