Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE093

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Basic Commerce & Industries Inc. (doing business as B C I), a minority-owned, Subcontinent Asian American small business headquartered in Moorestown, New Jersey. This contract, valued at $151 billion with an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with no set-aside designation. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, which procures an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. Work encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains throughout all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles.

Under this IDIQ vehicle, B C I received an initial firm fixed-price delivery order valued at $500 for the SHIELD Initial Order, with performance in Huntsville, Alabama and completion by December 28, 2035. The contract was structured under full and open competition allowing all qualified contractors to compete for multiple awards, with individual task and delivery orders to utilize various contract types across multiple industry classification codes. The procurement leverages advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures, with the contract vehicle structured to support both classified and unclassified programs across multiple security domains, requiring appropriate facility clearances for resultant ordering activity.