Information Technology for the 21st Century (ICT21)

The Food and Drug Administration awarded this Master IDIQ on September 25, 2008, supporting the FDA's Information Technology for the 21st Century (ICT21) bioinformatics initiative encompassing data management, data warehousing, IT infrastructure, and IT security. Ordering closed on September 28, 2018, and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders.

The vehicle is past its useful life for new pursuits. The last task order was awarded in September 2015—nearly 11 years ago—and no orders have been placed in over a decade. The combined potential value across all 15 awarded task orders is $1.63 billion, with $720.1 million obligated to date, representing 44% of combined potential value.

Task orders span FDA data center operations, IT infrastructure support, help desk services, and enterprise systems support. The largest single order—$901.8 million ceiling for contractor-operated hosted data center operations—was awarded to an unnamed awardee in September 2008. Other major orders include $160.1 million for White Oak data center equipment, $153.3 million for FDA datacenter support services, and $88 million for customer support services IT helpdesk.

Competition is concentrated among a small set of primes. Peraton Enterprise Solutions LLC holds the largest share by potential value at $1.07 billion across three orders; Humantouch LLC follows with $266.8 million across six orders. Dynanet Corporation, General Dynamics Information Technology, and Interactive Technology Solutions account for the remainder. All 15 orders funded FDA programs exclusively.

Set-asides were minimal: 73 percent of orders carried no set-aside designation, while 27 percent were designated partial small business. Task-order values ranged widely, from roughly $1.2 million to $901.8 million, with pricing structures combining firm-fixed-price, labor-hours, and other arrangements. The shared ceiling was $2.5 billion.

This Master IDIQ is the cornerstone of the FDA's Information Technology for the 21st Century (ICT21) bioinformatics initiative, an extensive IT modernization program encompassing data management, data warehousing, IT infrastructure and IT security. The contract sets the stage for the FDA to implement IT to acquire, analyze and act on data critical for import protection, food protection and medical product safety plans.