Federal Supply Schedule GS35F0328V

The key products and services being delivered under this federal contract IDV award are low latency, high throughput satellite communications services, satellite-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions, and related managed satellite communications capabilities. The prime contractor, SES Space & Defense, Inc., a subsidiary of the global satellite company SES, has been awarded a $269 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide these services worldwide on a single-award basis through August 2028. Under this BPA, SES Space & Defense has received multiple task orders from various defense agencies, including the U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Central Command, Department of the Army, and U.S. Air Forces Europe and Africa, with a combined value of over $75 million for firm-fixed-price CSS0107 services. These task orders cover a range of satellite communications requirements, including low latency, high throughput services; VSAT networks; satellite-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; and managed satellite communications support. SES Space & Defense also holds several other significant federal IDV contracts, including a $119.8 million BPA with the Army Intelligence and Security Command and a position on a $950 million multiple-award contract for the Advanced Battle Management System program with the Air Force.

This federal contract Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) is a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) awarded by the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), a defense agency, to SES Space & Defense, Inc., a subsidiary of global satellite communications provider SES. The $119.8 million BPA, which runs through May 2027, provides a flexible contracting vehicle for SES Space & Defense to deliver a wide range of satellite communications products and services to support critical national security, defense, and intelligence missions. This includes low latency, high throughput satellite services; very small aperture terminal (VSAT) networks; satellite-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions; hosted payloads; and managed satellite communications services. The company has also been awarded a $269 million BPA from the Defense Information Systems Agency for similar satellite communications capabilities, as well as task orders under a $950 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Vehicle for the Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System program. The INSCOM BPA has no set-aside designation, and the task orders awarded under it range in value from under $100,000 to over $20 million, with the majority being firm-fixed price arrangements.