The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) to Iridium Satellite LLC, a for-profit manufacturer and provider of global mobile satellite communications services, to procure Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) satellite-based services. The $13 billion IDC has a 10-year performance period and aims to acquire emerging, commercial, worldwide, low-latency PLEO capabilities to support Department of Defense operations globally. An initial $2,000 firm fixed price delivery order was issued to provide minimum guarantee satellite bandwidth services at Fort Meade, Maryland from August to September 2023.
The IDC was competitively awarded under a Multiple Award structure, with no set-aside designations. The procurement was issued as a pre-solicitation notice in August 2022, indicating the formal Request for Proposals would be released in September 2022 and evaluated using a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable source selection approach per FAR Part 15. As a multiple award IDIQ contract, the total contract value will depend on future task orders issued over the life of the agreement to access the PLEO satellite services and capabilities.
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