JE-OPETS Acquisition (JE-OPETS-A)

The Department of the Army's Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense awarded this Master IDIQ on September 28, 2018, with a shared ceiling of $249 million and a last date to order of March 26, 2025—ordering closed over a year ago, placing this vehicle outside the active pursuit window. The vehicle succeeded an earlier Omnibus Program Engineering and Technical Support contract awarded in December 2012 and was established as a 100 percent small-business set-aside, multiple-award vehicle, though actual task-order execution shows a mixed set-aside profile: 65 percent of the 26 awarded orders carry no set-aside designation, while 35 percent are total small business awards.

The vehicle funds engineering and technical support resources for the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD), including its headquarters, directorates, and five Joint Project Managers. Task orders predominantly supply professional services labor: program analysts, acquisition analysts, administrative assistants, and strategic planners across NAICS 541330 (engineering services). Representative orders range from modest guaranteed-minimum labor positions (as low as $1,000 ceiling values on recent awards in 2024) to multi-million-dollar professional-services task orders ($21.5 million ceiling, $8.1 million ceiling on orders from February 2022).

Kalman & Company, Inc., dominates the portfolio with 12 orders totaling $108.3 million in combined potential value—roughly 74 percent of the total $146.6 million across all awardees. Joint Research And Development LLC holds the second position with 4 orders for $23.6 million, and The Tauri Group, Inc., places third with 3 orders for $12.5 million. Nine distinct primes share the vehicle overall. Ordering momentum peaked in 2019 with 15 task orders; subsequent activity slowed to 1 order each in 2020 and 2021, rebounded to 5 in 2022, and dropped to 4 in 2024 before ordering closed. The Department of the Army's JPEO-CBD accounts for 21 of 26 orders (81 percent) valued at $114.7 million combined potential, with secondary orders placed by the Navy, Marine Corps, and other Army components.

Of the $146.6 million combined potential value across all task orders, $118.9 million (81 percent) has already been obligated. The vehicle is expired for new ordering and represents a closed-window opportunity.

The US Army, Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) has awarded a Master IDIQ for the Joint Enterprise Omnibus Program, Engineering and Technical Support (JE-OPETS). This vehicle is for the Acquisition (A) Component.