Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE867

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Vertekal LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, effective December 29, 2025, with a $151 billion ceiling value and performance extending through December 28, 2035. This contract, titled the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, utilizes full and open competition with no set-asides and was awarded to all qualifying offerors deemed responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing. The underlying solicitation was issued as a pre-solicitation notice on May 21, 2025, with a draft solicitation released in late July 2025 and the final Request for Proposal anticipated in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025. Vertekal LLC, a Virginia-based limited liability company registered in the System for Award Management since January 2023, competes for task orders under this enterprise-wide contracting vehicle alongside other qualified contractors.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ contract, Vertekal LLC shall provide all necessary materials, labor, equipment, and facilities required to support the Missile Defense Agency's advanced, multi-domain defense system capabilities. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts to detect, track, intercept, and neutralize threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. Work includes support across all phases of ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, as well as advanced aerial attacks, leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures. Individual task and delivery orders will utilize various contract types across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes, with performance classified at both unclassified and classified security levels requiring appropriate facility clearances, enabling the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under this flexible 10-year contracting mechanism.