Missile Defense Agency Engineering and Support Services (MiDAESS)

The Missile Defense Agency established a Master IDIQ for Advisory and Assistance Services on June 17, 2010, with a shared ceiling of $3.476 billion, but ordering closed on February 3, 2016—over a decade ago. This vehicle is no longer active and cannot support new pursuits.

The 81 task orders issued under the vehicle span six functional categories: Acquisition, Engineering, Infrastructure and Deployment, Agency Advisory Analytical, Agency Operations, and Security and Intelligence. Recent orders demonstrate the breadth of support: systems engineering and weapons/missile systems engineering, ballistic missile defense system cybersecurity management and computer network defense, infrastructure planning and facility management, strategic planning and financial management, and counterintelligence and security program protection. Task orders operate across geographically dispersed locations including Colorado Springs, Colorado; Huntsville, Alabama; Fort Greely, Alaska; Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; and overseas sites at Kwajalein Atoll and other development and test facilities.

Parsons Government Services Inc. dominates the vehicle, holding 24 orders with a combined potential value of $867.1 million—roughly 52 percent of all obligated value. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. ranks second with 18 orders valued at $332.5 million. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Mantech Advanced Systems International, Inc., and ECS Federal, LLC round out the top tier. The top five primes account for 91 percent of combined potential value, indicating highly concentrated competition. All 81 task orders were issued on an unrestricted, non-set-aside basis. The single customer throughout was the Missile Defense Agency itself.

Task orders ranged from post-award conferences at $5,000 to engineering support orders exceeding $86.5 million in ceiling value. Typical substantive orders fell in the $20 million to $80 million range with cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing. Of the $1.65 billion combined potential value across all task orders, $1.48 billion (90 percent) had been obligated by the vehicle's close of ordering in 2016. The most recent award was issued on July 16, 2015, to a delivery order for weapons and missile systems engineering support with a ceiling of $86.5 million.

Master IDIQ for Advisory and Assistance Services (A & AS) for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The required engineering and technical support for A & AS includes analyses, alternatives, evaluations, studies, information, recommendations, advice, opinions, training, and general services. Contractors under this vehicle are required to provide evaluations and assessments of the performance of other contractors supporting the agency, as well as systems engineering and technical direction services. Contractor are also required to assist the agency in developing acquisition strategies for future procurements (and modifications of existing procurements), to include developing statements of work and providing requirements definition services.