Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) Red Hat BPA

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command established the Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) Red Hat BPA on July 8, 2024, with ordering authority extending through July 7, 2029, under a shared ceiling of $848.4 million. Ordering remains active with approximately two years and eleven months of the five-year period remaining.

Activity has peaked and is now receding. The vehicle issued 130 task orders across four calendar years: 17 in 2024, 87 in 2025, 25 in 2026, and 1 through March 2027. The most recent order was placed March 8, 2027. Combined task-order potential value stands at $249 million, with $43.3 million obligated (17% of potential). The vehicle is heavily concentrated among three prime contractors. Carahsoft Technology Corp dominates with 108 orders worth $246.4 million in combined potential value, representing 99% of task-order volume and 98.9% of combined potential value. TD Synnex Corporation holds 18 orders valued at $2.4 million, and EC America, Inc. holds 4 orders at $187 thousand. No other primes are present.

Orders are almost entirely unrestricted: 89 of 130 task orders (68%) carry no set-aside designation; the remainder fall into set-aside categories not specified in the portfolio block. Customer concentration is broad. The top five customer organizations by order count—Department of the Air Force (12 orders), Air Force Materiel Command Electronic Systems Center (12 orders), Army Cyber Command (11 orders), Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Center (7 orders), and Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Enterprise Information Systems (7 orders)—account for only 38% of task orders across 42 distinct funding agencies. No single agency dominates.

Actual task orders procure Red Hat software licenses, subscriptions, and maintenance renewals across multiple product lines: Enterprise Linux server and workstation subscriptions, Ansible Automation Platform, OpenShift, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Satellite, and learning subscriptions. Task-order values range from $705 (a single awarded order) to $201.5 million (an order ceiling with $11.9 million obligated). The largest single order, N6600124A0056-HC102825F0029, awarded December 1, 2025, carries a ceiling of $201.5 million in combined potential value with base-year and optional-year structure. Typical task orders range from tens of thousands to low single-digit millions, with firm-fixed-price pricing and performance periods of one to five years.