Missile Defense Agency Engineering and Support Services SB (MiDAESS SB)

The Missile Defense Agency established this Master IDIQ for Advisory and Assistance Services on January 21, 2010, with ordering closed as of March 9, 2016. The vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders. The combined shared ceiling is $1.868 billion, and 69 task orders have been awarded since inception, with $742.3 million obligated against a combined potential value of $864.7 million—86% of the vehicle's total contracted value already committed.

MDA Engineering and Support Services SB contracted engineering analyses, systems engineering and technical direction, acquisition strategy development, and general advisory support across four subcategories: Quality, Safety, and Mission Assurance; Acquisition; Agency Operations; and Engineering. Task orders funded work including contractor performance evaluations, requirements definition, cost estimating, safety and occupational health programs, international affairs support, logistics, and information management services. Nearly all orders funded MDA directly; the vehicle is entirely concentrated on a single customer agency.

The ordering surge peaked in 2010 with 23 task orders, then moderated to 3–17 orders annually through 2014, with the most recent award in October 2014. Activity declined sharply after 2014, signaling a wind-down of the vehicle prior to closure. Quantech Services Inc., Harlan Lee & Associates LLC, BCF Solutions, Inc., Torch Technologies Inc., and Axient LLC together hold roughly 75% of combined potential value, with five prime contractors capturing approximately 68% of all task orders. The remaining nine contractors hold smaller slices of the portfolio, indicating moderate concentration among a handful of dominant firms.

Approximately half of the 69 awards are designated Total Small Business set-asides, with the remainder unrestricted. Cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing dominated; task orders ranged from $5,000 post-award conference notices to $50.6 million ceiling values for strategic planning and executive administrative support. Representative mid-portfolio orders spanned $12–40 million ceilings for engineering capability groups, test infrastructure, acquisition management, and agency operations support. Place of performance was not geographically specified in the source material.

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.