Blanket Purchase Agreement GS35F0509S-AG3144B070007

This Blanket Purchase Agreement was awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Information Officer to procure network attached storage appliances from Affigent, LLC. The $50 million agreement was awarded on June 18, 2007 against GSA Schedule 70 with no set-aside utilized. Task orders issued between 2007 and 2016 provided Dell PowerEdge network attached storage devices, servers, and hard drives to various USDA offices located across the United States, with total task order values ranging from approximately $5,000 to $35,000. The task orders aimed to support the upgrade and refresh of the USDA's IT infrastructure through the delivery of storage solutions and servers to modernize systems that collect and disseminate agricultural data and support other critical agency missions. The final date to issue orders against the Blanket Purchase Agreement was March 31, 2012.

Affigent, LLC is an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small business that has extensive experience providing IT hardware, software, and related services to federal government customers through various contract vehicles. As the prime contractor under this Blanket Purchase Agreement, Affigent delivered Dell-branded network attached storage devices, servers, and hard drives to multiple offices of the USDA over several years to upgrade the department's aging IT infrastructure and support its agricultural research, statistics, and rural development programs on a nationwide basis.