Electronic Security Systems VI (ESS VI)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville established Electronic Security Systems VI, a Master IDIQ with a shared ceiling of $450 million, on April 6, 2017; ordering closed on April 5, 2022, and the vehicle is no longer available for new task orders. The Master IDIQ operated under two tracks—Small Business and Unrestricted—and supported 148 task orders through September 2022, with firm fixed-price delivery orders addressing procurement, installation, maintenance, and service of electronic security systems including access controls, CCTV, intrusion detection, fire alarm, HVAC, SCADA, and utility monitoring across domestic and overseas Army installations.

Obligated spending stands at $309.4 million against a combined task-order potential value of $438.6 million (71% obligated). Award activity averaged 26.8 orders per year over the five-year period from 2018 through 2022, with no new orders placed after September 2022. The most recent task orders, awarded in September 2022, included maintenance and service contracts for Army Installation Management Command regional garrisons, procurement and installation at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, and system support at U.S. Military Academy West Point, with individual ceiling values ranging from approximately $200,000 to $17.9 million.

Five primes captured 77 percent of awarded task orders: Evergreen Fire Alarms LLC led by count with 43 orders worth $71.7 million combined potential value, followed by Signet Technologies, Inc. (22 orders, $55 million), Integrated Security Solutions Inc. (21 orders, $108.1 million), Low Voltage Wiring LTD (16 orders, $21.8 million), and Xator LLC (12 orders, $116.2 million). Xator and Integrated Security Solutions dominate by dollar value, collectively holding $224.3 million of the $438.6 million potential—roughly 51 percent. Fourteen primes total competed on the vehicle.

Two-thirds of task orders (98 of 148) carried no set-aside designation, with the remainder split between total small-business awards (32 orders, 22 percent) and partial small-business set-asides (18 orders, 12 percent). The Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Support Center Huntsville and broader Army organizations accounted for 53 percent of orders, with task orders also funding Army Training and Doctrine Command, Army Installation Management Command regional components, and wider federal customer bases across 54 distinct agencies. Performance sites spanned CONUS, overseas Army garrisons in Europe, the Pacific, and the Middle East, and international locations including Saudi Arabia, Germany, Japan, Israel, and Romania.

The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (CEHNC) has awarded a Master IDIQ for the Electronic Security Systems Program (ESS) VI Generation. Under this electronic security systems services acquisition, contractors shall provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to procure and install Electronic Security Systems (ESS) and physical security and/or force protection measures, and other Automated Control Systems, including Utility Monitoring and Control Systems (UMCS); Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC); Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems; fire alarm and life safety systems, chemical / biological / radiological containment detection / filtration / response, utilities metering, mass notification systems (MNS), and other related electronic systems.