DARPA Technical and Analytical Support Services (TASS)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency established the DARPA Technical and Analytical Support Services (TASS) Master IDIQ on August 13, 2018, with a shared ceiling of $850 million; ordering closed on August 11, 2023, and no new task orders may be placed against the vehicle.

The vehicle is no longer active. The most recent task-order award was September 12, 2022, nearly four years ago. Of the 24 task orders issued over the vehicle's lifetime, ordering momentum declined sharply: the vehicle awarded seven orders in its first year (2018), peaked at eight in 2021, then dropped to three in 2022 before the ordering deadline closed. Combined task-order potential value stands at $951.7 million, with $773.5 million obligated (81% of combined potential), leaving approximately $178.2 million unobligated across existing orders.

TASS procures scientific, engineering, and technical assistance (SETA) and advisory support services across DARPA's technical offices and enterprise functions. Recent orders support Strategic Technology Offices (radar, communications, sensors; optics and maritime systems), Microsystems offices (analysis, architectures, devices), Biological Technologies Office (synthetic biology, neural engineering, biomedical systems), Tactical Technology Office, Adaptive Capabilities Office, and enterprise-wide administrative support. Orders are structured as cost-plus-fixed-fee and labor-hours arrangements, with some firm-fixed-price components.

Guidehouse Inc. dominates the awardee base, holding five orders valued at $367.3 million combined potential value (39% of the vehicle total). Strategic Analysis, Inc. and ECS Federal, LLC each hold five and five orders respectively valued at $214.9 million and $187.6 million. Schafer Government Services, LLC holds four orders valued at $123.4 million. The top four primes capture roughly 83% of awarded orders and 97% of combined potential value by volume. All 24 orders are unrestricted (no set-aside designations). All orders fund DARPA exclusively; there is no customer diversification.

Task-order ceilings range from $3,000 for post-award orientation briefings (seven orders) to $77.1 million for Microsystems Devices support, with substantive technical-support orders typically ranging from $27 million to $77 million in ceiling value. Most orders carry two-to-five-year performance periods expiring between mid-2024 and mid-2027.

This vehicle is not a pursuit opportunity; the ordering period has closed and no future task orders will be issued under it.

The scope of TASS is to provide a range of Advisory and Assistance services, required to assist DARPA in accomplishing its mission.