Engineering and Technology Acquisition Support Services II (ETASS II)

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Electronic Systems Center awarded ETASS II, a Master IDIQ established March 25, 2015, to provide engineering and technology acquisition support services; ordering closed July 14, 2024, and the vehicle is no longer active.

This vehicle is not currently available for new orders. All 13 task orders awarded under ETASS II closed between October 2015 and early 2019, with the most recent award in October 2015. The vehicle carried a shared ceiling of $851 million, though the combined task-order potential value totaled only $157.1 million against which $418.4 million has been obligated—a 266% ratio indicating significant over-obligation relative to stated potential value, a pattern typical of cost-plus-fixed-fee advisory and assistance services with incumbent vendors.

The contract provided engineering capabilities spanning configuration management, software, network systems, information technology, system and aerospace engineering, communications, and information assurance in support of the Electronic Systems Center's acquisition programs. Awarded work centered on C3I & Networks Directorate support, HB Directorate engineering and technical administration, and command staff advisory services.

Competition was tightly concentrated: Oasis Systems, LLC held three orders totaling $93.7 million in potential value, and Abacus Technology Corporation held two orders totaling $63.4 million, together capturing the vast majority of the vehicle's economic activity. A cohort of small businesses—Windmill International, Quantech Services, and Gemini Industries—each received single $5 thousand orders. Ordering activity was confined to fiscal 2015; no subsequent awards are recorded.

Approximately 77 percent of orders were set aside for small business; the remainder were unrestricted. Customer concentration was high: the Electronic Systems Center itself placed four orders worth $107.6 million combined potential value, with the remainder distributed across Air Education and Training Command, Space Command, and lifecycle management centers at Wright Patterson and Maxwell Air Force bases.

Task-order values varied sharply. Three small pilot orders carried $5 thousand ceilings each; three large advisory and assistance services orders ranged from $44.2 million to $63.4 million in potential value, priced on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. All task orders have completed performance.

Engineering and Technology Acquisition Support Services II (ETASS II) provides the Electronic Systems Center (ESC) with engineering capabilities to successfully assist in execution and technical support of ESC programs. The engineering capabilities also assist ESC in the delivery of standardized processes. These may include all or a subset of the engineering spectrum with related engineering skill sets in related disciplines. These engineering capabilities may include but are not limited to a required knowledge base in the following skill sets: Configuration management; software; network systems; information technology; engineering (system, aerospace, electronic, electrical, mechanical, civil/construction, computer) communications; information assurance; Enterprise Risk Assessment Integration.