Simulation and Training Engineering Services Support (STES)

The Department of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command established a Master IDIQ for Simulation and Training Engineering Services Support in July 2016, but ordering closed on February 28, 2021, and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders. The vehicle supported exploratory and applied research, advanced technology development, and demonstration across synthetic natural environments, medical simulations, dismounted Soldier training, advanced distributed simulation, and embedded training, with a combined potential value of $7.3 million.

Thirteen task orders were awarded in the initial 2016 funding wave and one in September 2017; no orders have been placed since. The vehicle obligated $6.3 million of its $7.3 million potential value, representing 87% utilization. All 14 task orders funded Army Research Laboratory programs exclusively.

Cole Engineering Services, Inc. dominated the vehicle with four orders totaling $7.2 million in combined potential value—nearly 99 percent of the portfolio. Intelligent Decision Systems, Inc., Dignitas Technologies LLC, and Engineering & Computer Simulations, Inc. each received a small number of orders valued at thousands of dollars; the competitive field included seven distinct primes overall. About 71 percent of orders were designated Total Small Business set-asides; the remainder were unrestricted. Most small-business orders carried $2 thousand minimum guarantees against cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing; the lone large unrestricted order to Cole Engineering in September 2017 ran to $7.2 million ceiling with incremental funding through August 2021. With the ordering deadline five years past and all task-order activity concentrated between July and September 2016, this vehicle is inactive and closed to new business.

The Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Army Research Laboratory, Human Research and Engineering Directorate, Simulation and Training Technology Center (ARL- HRED-STTC) has awarded a Master IDIQ for Simulation and Training Engineering Services Support (STES). STES IDIQ will plan, conduct, and exploit exploratory (basic and applied) research, advanced technology development, and demonstration of simulation and training, utilizing the most advanced Modeling and Simulation (M & S) technology in the following areas: (1) synthetic natural environments, (2) medical simulations, (3) dismounted Soldier training, (4) advanced distributed simulation and (5) embedded training. Subsequent delivery/task orders will include exploratory and advanced simulation research/studies/analyses, technology development for learning, training, testing and mission rehearsal and advanced research and development (R & D) in simulation and instrumentation technologies.