Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE504

EPC Service Inc., a woman-owned small business, was awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Contract by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. The contract supports the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a comprehensive multi-domain defense system designed to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends. The prime contractor shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required for performance of this requirement in accordance with task order terms. The contract utilizes full and open competition with no set-aside designations and was established through a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025, with a final solicitation released in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025.

The SHIELD Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract encompasses a broad scope of work areas including research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts. The contract is designed to support continuous, layered protection against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with work potentially conducted at different classification levels requiring appropriate facility clearances. The initial task order issued under this contract vehicle, the SHIELD Initial Order, was awarded on December 29, 2025, with a firm fixed price of five hundred dollars and a place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama, establishing the foundation for the Missile Defense Agency to rapidly issue orders under this flexible, enterprise-wide contracting mechanism over the 10-year period of performance.