Rapid Response Third Generation (R2-3G)

Department of the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) awarded Rapid Response Third Generation (R2-3G), a Master IDIQ with a shared ceiling of $16.4 billion, on March 13, 2009; ordering closed on October 28, 2017, and the vehicle is no longer open for new task-order placement.

The vehicle executed 261 task orders over its ordering window, with a combined potential value of $9.42 billion and $6.99 billion obligated (74% of potential). Annual ordering velocity peaked in 2015 at 45 orders, declining to 26–29 orders annually in 2016–2017 as the vehicle approached its closing date. R2-3G served as the successor to the CECOM Rapid Response vehicle (awarded 2003) and was itself succeeded by Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services, awarded May 15, 2017.

Scope spans research and development, technology insertion, system integration and installation, fabrication and prototyping, testing and certification, studies and analyses, logistic support, training, and engineering support services including re-engineering and reverse engineering across a range of equipment and systems.

Competition concentrated among five primes holding 56% of task orders: Caci Technologies (46 orders, $2.11 billion combined potential value), Booz Allen Hamilton (29 orders, $1.09 billion), IAP Worldwide Services (27 orders, $769.4 million), General Dynamics Information Technology (22 orders, $435.8 million), and Adams Communication & Engineering Technology (22 orders, $1.41 billion). By potential value, the top five primes (Caci, Mag DS, Adams, Booz Allen, and Leidos) captured 75% of combined potential value. All 261 task orders carried no set-aside designation, meaning the vehicle was fully unrestricted.

Customer concentration was distributed across 50 funding agencies, with Army Materiel Command components dominating: ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground (34 orders, $491.3 million combined potential), CECOM (33 orders, $1.53 billion), Research Development and Engineering Command (31 orders, $1.36 billion), and PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (21 orders, $2.78 billion) together representing 53% of orders. The Navy contributed 20 orders through Naval Air Systems Command ($301.9 million combined potential).

Task-order values ranged widely, from sub-million-dollar efforts to mega-orders exceeding $400 million obligated; representative 2017 awards included a $384 million order for operation and sustainment logistics support (W15P7T10DD420-KZ02), a $145 million SETA order (W15P7T10DD421-KZ03), and a $95 million data enterprise modernization order (W15P7T10DD415-KY10). Pricing predominantly used Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee for labor and materials, with some Firm-Fixed-Price task orders. Performance spanned domestic locations (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Shafter, Hawaii; Cherry Point, North Carolina) and overseas (Republic of Korea, PACOM region).

R2-3G provides support to Department of Defense (DOD) and other Federal Agencies in the areas of research and development, technology insertion, system integration/installation, fabrication/prototyping, testing/certification, studies/analyses, logistic su pport services, training and engineering support services, including re-engineering and reverse engineering, for a range of equipments and services.