Global Support Strategy 2.0 (GSS 2)

The Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs established this Master IDIQ on December 15, 2020 to provide nonimmigrant and immigrant visa support services at U.S. consulates and embassies worldwide, including public inquiry services, appointment scheduling, fee collection, biometric enrollment, document delivery, and data collection. The vehicle carries a $3.3 billion shared ceiling and ordering authority extends through December 14, 2030, leaving approximately four years and four months to place new task orders.

The vehicle remains active with accelerating momentum: 21 task orders awarded across four years, including 11 orders in 2024 alone. Combined task-order potential value stands at $1.36 billion, with $481.1 million obligated (35% of potential). Task-order durations typically run through 2032–2034, with firm fixed-price structures. Recent orders range from roughly $4 million to $206 million in ceiling value; the largest current task order, awarded in December 2024 for Mexico operations, carries a $206.6 million ceiling against $39.7 million obligated.

Two primes dominate the vehicle: General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. holds 11 of 21 orders ($869 million combined potential) and CGI Federal Inc. holds 8 orders ($446.2 million combined potential), together representing roughly 96% of potential value. Amentum Services, Inc. holds the remaining 2 orders ($46.2 million combined potential). All 21 task orders are unrestricted, competitive awards to a single customer—the Bureau of Consular Affairs itself.

Scope across awarded task orders is geographically segmented by regional mission: separate task orders cover Mexico, Southeastern Europe, South Africa, Western Europe, the Near East, China and Mongolia, Nordics and Continental Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Brazil, the Pacific, India, Canada, and other regions. All performance occurs overseas outside the continental United States; only program management and contract administration occur domestically. The vehicle succeeds a ten-year GSS 1.0 IDIQ awarded in 2010 to CGI Federal and General Dynamics (then Stanley Associates and CSC/CSRA).

The Global Support Strategy (GSS) 2.0 IDIQ will provide support services for nonimmigrant and immigrant visa operations at United States consulates and embassies abroad, including but not limited to public inquiry services, appointment services, fee collection services, biometric enrollment services, document delivery services and data collection services. The GSS service provider(s) will perform non-inherently government activities associated with consular affairs and provide data collection and delivery to the United States Government. The contract will be performed entirely outside of the United States and its outlying areas.