Custom SATCOM Solutions (CS2)

GSA Federal Acquisition Service awarded a Master IDIQ for fixed satellite services, mobile satellite services, and enabling components such as terminals, teleport, and terrestrial interface tail circuits on August 29, 2012, with a last date to order of August 28, 2017—meaning the vehicle closed to new ordering nearly nine years ago and no new task orders can be placed against it. This vehicle is not open for pursuit.

The Master IDIQ carried a shared ceiling of $2.6 billion and established eight prime contractors. Activity peaked in 2015–2017 with 36, 29, and 31 orders respectively, then declined sharply to 14 orders in 2018 and only 2 in 2019 (the final award was March 25, 2019). Of the $753.8 million in combined task-order potential value across all 169 orders, $590.7 million has been obligated, representing 78% drawdown.

Competitive concentration is extreme. Global Enterprise Solutions, Inc. holds only 5 orders but commands $582.8 million in combined potential value—77% of the entire vehicle's portfolio. Hughes Network Systems LLC, by contrast, holds 151 orders (89% of all task orders) but only $25.6 million combined potential value, indicating small routine maintenance and support work. Inmarsat Government, Inc., Telecommunication Systems Inc., and Artel LLC collectively hold the remaining value. The disparity reflects a bifurcated competitive landscape where a single large integrator dominates by dollar value while a specialist contractor dominates by order count.

Customer concentration is concentrated in Air Force components. The Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command, Air Force Academy, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, and Air National Guard together placed 78 of the 169 orders. The Department of Transportation was the second-largest customer by order count with 24 orders. Across the 30 distinct customer agencies, Air Force-related entities represent the plurality of activity.

All 169 task orders carry no set-aside designation. Task-order values range from hundreds of dollars for minor configuration work (downlink reconfigurations, site surveys, reconfiguration services) to several million dollars for large bandwidth and infrastructure contracts—notably Global Enterprise Solutions' $5.7 million MWR Internet Café Services order and two satellite communications services orders each above $4.5 million. Most orders are small five-figure engagements; orders exceed $250,000 only occasionally.

The GSA has awarded a Master IDIQ for any combination of fixed satellite services or mobile satellite services components, and/or service enabling components such as terminals, teleport, and terrestrial interface tail circuits.