GSA Region 4 Integrated Telecom Services II (GRITS-II)

The GSA Federal Acquisition Service established a Master IDIQ for wired telecommunications services in the southeastern region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee) on April 1, 2013, with a shared ceiling of 1.2 billion dollars and a final ordering date of March 31, 2023—now closed to new task orders.

Ordering closed three years and three months ago. The vehicle generated 454 task orders over its lifetime, with peak activity in 2019 at 42 orders annually; recent ordering momentum declined sharply to one order in 2023. Combined task-order potential value stands at $83.8 million with $25.4 million obligated—30 percent of the potential envelope.

The work spans local voice services, data and video transport, converged services, ISDN PRI circuits, DSL/SOHO connectivity, T1/T3 data circuits, centrex and PBX trunk lines, and related telecommunications installation and maintenance. Recent task orders reflect continuation of those service lines, including DSL/SOHO solutions for agencies in Florida and Georgia, T1 point-to-point data circuits for multiple states, and ISDN PRI circuits with DID telephone numbers.

At&T Corp. dominates the awardee base with 290 orders worth $57 million in combined potential value—capturing roughly 68 percent of all task-order potential. Windstream Communications follows with 76 orders totaling $11.4 million, and Frontier Communications holds 28 orders worth $10 million. Core Technologies and a smaller tail of carriers round out the eight primes; the top three capture approximately 95 percent of potential value.

Customer concentration is moderate across 81 distinct funding agencies. GSA Federal Acquisition Service leads with 192 orders, followed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (28 orders), the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Southern Region (23 orders), and the Department of Energy Office of Management (20 orders). These four account for about 61 percent of awarded orders.

The vehicle is unrestricted; 99 percent of task orders carry no set-aside, with only three small-business awards and one woman-owned small-business award across the entire portfolio. Task orders typically carry firm fixed pricing with ten-year price-adjustment clauses; individual order ceilings range from under one thousand dollars to approximately $690 thousand, with most falling in the five thousand to fifty thousand dollar range. Work is geographically dispersed across the eight-state region according to LATA boundaries.

GSA has awarded a Master IDIQ for Wired Telecommunications Carriers capable of providing Local Wired Voice, Data/Video, Converged Services, and/or Other Wired Telecommunications Services for GSA Federal Agency customers in Local Access and Transport Areas (LATAs) throughout the predominant and surrounding geographical areas of the southeastern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Government requirements include digital information transport and processing for connection of voice, video, and data terminals to the Public Switched Network (PSN), Internet Protocol World Wide Web (IPWWW), Local/Wide Area Networks (LAN/WAN), Point to Point Connectivity, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)/Small Office Home Office (SOHO), Central Office Exchange Service, Local Dial Access Primary Rate Interface (PRI), Local Dial Access Digital DS1/T1, Data Transport, Digital Point to Point and Point to Multipoint Data/Video, Frame Relay Point to Point, Government/House Cable/Wire installation and maintenance services, and Telephone Directory Listings, and/or other wired telecommunications services.