Information Technology Solutions - Business Information Strategic Support I (ITS-BISS)

The Environmental Protection Agency established this Master IDIQ for information technology and information management technical and professional services on April 15, 2005, with a shared ceiling of $148 million; ordering closed on January 14, 2011. This vehicle is no longer active. It has been succeeded by Information Technology Solutions - Business Information Strategic Support II, awarded January 1, 2011.

The vehicle supported EPA's implementation of federal IT statutes and policies including the Clinger-Cohen Act, Government Performance Results Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, and Federal Information Security Management Act, with emphasis on integrated program management support, independent assessments, enterprise information tools, and IT advisory services. Task orders awarded through October 2010 demonstrate scope spanning enterprise architecture, IT security risk assessment, program management support, capital planning and investment control (CPIC), configuration management, IT policy support, leadership development, and specialized services for programs including Superfund, IRIS, GEOSS, and financial modernization.

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. and Project Performance Company, LLC captured 100 percent of awarded orders, with General Dynamics holding 89 orders worth $62 million in combined potential value and Project Performance Company holding 74 orders worth $23.1 million. This two-firm concentration reflects a highly consolidated competitive structure.

Funding was distributed across nine EPA offices, with the Office of Environmental Information dominating at 56 orders and $44.5 million in combined potential value—roughly 52 percent of all orders. The Office of Research and Development, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Office of Administration and Resource Management, and Office for Water accounted for the remainder of tracked top-customer activity.

About 71 percent of the 163 total task orders carried no set-aside designation; the remaining 29 percent went to small business. Task-order values ranged from under $25 thousand to over $4 million, with typical durations extending through mid-2011. Most recent task orders from late 2010 show cost-plus-award-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee structures. Combined task-order potential value reached $85.2 million, with $75.1 million obligated by the end of ordering activity (88 percent utilization of potential value).

ITS-BISS provides EPA with a broad range of information technology and information management (ITIM) technical and professional services with emphasis on integrated program management support services and independent assessments and support services. Collectively these services provides EPA with support for implementing key ITIM federal statutes and policies including the Clinger Cohen Act, Government Performance Results Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, Federal Information Security Management Act, and OMB Circulars. ITS-BISS also provides services to support EPA information priorities such as implementing enterprise information tools and services.