ENCORE III Information Technology Services (ENCORE III)

The Defense Information Systems Agency established ENCORE III Information Technology Services, a multiple-award Master IDIQ with a $17.5 billion shared ceiling for global IT capabilities and services supporting the military services, DoD, and other Federal agencies. Ordering remains open through May 11, 2029. The vehicle carries Full and Open and Small Business suites, and 57 of 127 task orders (45%) are Total Small Business set-asides, with 70 orders (55%) using no set-aside.

The vehicle was awarded September 7, 2018, succeeding ENCORE II Information Technology Support, awarded April 24, 2008. Ordering authority runs 2 years 6 months from the date of this summary. Orders per year for 2022 through 2026 are 5, 8, 16, 8, and 4, with 2026 covering a partial year and the most recent award dated March 1, 2026. Task orders have obligated $1.89 billion, or 58% of the $3.25 billion combined potential value.

Awarded orders buy cybersecurity and cyber operations support, network and enterprise engineering, hosting and server administration, base operations IT, unified communications, and command-and-control portfolio support. The description states that hardware, software, and associated products are incidental to services.

Forty-six distinct primes have received awards. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. leads by order count (15 orders, $389.8 million), followed by Compqsoft, Inc. (9 orders, $309.2 million), with CACI, Inc. - Federal and Leidos, Inc. at six orders each. The top five primes by order count hold 33% of task orders. By potential value, the top five hold 55%, led by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., CACI, Inc. - Federal ($376.8 million), Next Tier Concepts Inc. ($350.4 million across three orders), and Madian It Solutions LLC ($333.6 million). The remaining activity sits with a wider field of small business integrators.

DISA places 97 of 127 orders, with $1.84 billion in combined potential value. The top five customers account for 84% of orders, and the vehicle serves 21 customer agencies in total. The largest recent orders include an Army Global SIPR Network order with $132.6 million obligated and a Defense Personal Property System Increment 3 order with $87.2 million obligated.

Fifteen May 2019 orders carry $500 minimum guarantee post-award conference obligations. These are contractual floors and do not represent typical task-order values.

The ENCORE III suite of contracts will provide global information technology (IT) capabilities, attributes, and services under multiple award ID/IQ task order type contracts that support the military services, the DoD, and other Federal agencies. The scope of the IT tasks to be performed in the ENCORE III suite of contracts is encompassed in 19 performance areas. The hardware, software, and associated products will be incidental to the services that are provided. Areas that must be supported include Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and Mission Support areas, as well as all elements of the Joint Information Environment (JIE). Unique user data, information, and user applications which are not considered part of the JIE, can also be procured using the contracts.