CDD Support Services 2019

The U.S. Marine Corps established this Master IDIQ on January 7, 2019, to provide technical, analytical, engineering, and capability portfolio management support to the Capabilities Development Directorate, with ordering authority ending June 5, 2024. The vehicle is now closed; no new task orders may be placed against it. The original solicitation was set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), though ordering practice diverged significantly from that constraint.

Thirty-eight task orders worth $27.1 million in combined potential value have been awarded. Eighty-nine percent of that value ($24 million) is already obligated. Task-order activity peaked in 2019 with 14 orders, declined to 4 in 2020, and averaged 6–8 orders annually through 2023, with the final award in August 2023. Individual task-order values range from $2,500 (six inaugural Information Warfare Integration orders) to $2.97 million (Logistics Integration option), with most contracts clustering between $200,000 and $750,000 on firm fixed-price terms.

Two primes dominate the competitive picture. Strategic Ventures Consulting Group holds 50% of combined potential value across 19 orders; Advanced Management Strategies Group holds 44% across 9 orders. Together, these firms account for 94% of the portfolio. The remaining four awardees—Vickers & Nolan Enterprises, Get It Done (Gid) Solutions, Atkinson Aeronautics & Technology, and one other—share less than 6% of value. All 38 task orders funded Marine Corps programs; no other agency placed orders.

Actual task-order competition departs from the SDVOSB set-aside structure. Sixty-three percent of orders carry no set-aside designation, 34% were competed as SDVOSB sole-source, and 3% were Total Small Business. The mix reflects both competitive and noncompetitive award practices across the funding period.

Work spans Marine Corps operational and functional areas including force protection integration, explosive hazard defeat, expeditionary energy, logistics integration, information warfare, MAGTF integration, and command-and-control systems. Place of performance centers on Quantico, Virginia.

The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded a Master IDIQ for technical, analytical, engineering, and capability portfolio management (CPM) support to the Director, Capabilities Development Directorate (CDD), Deputy Commandant Combat Development and Integration (DC CD&I). Critical capabilities within this effort include the development of comprehensive Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) documents and analysis of products to define capability gaps, capability needs, and approaches to provide those capabilities within a specified functional or operational area.