Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement III (SEWP III)

Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement III is an expired Master GWAC that NASA awarded on February 15, 2000, with a last date to order of May 10, 2009—ordering closed 17 years ago. This vehicle is no longer active and cannot be used for new task orders. Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement IV, awarded May 1, 2007, is the current successor vehicle in this contract family.

During its operational life, SEWP III issued 10,000 task orders with a combined potential value of $3.94 billion, of which $3.03 billion (77 percent) has been obligated. The vehicle contracted a broad range of IT products and services: tablets, desktops and servers, IT peripherals, network equipment, storage systems, security tools, software products, cloud-based services, video conferencing systems, and audio-visual products. Recent task orders (through September 2017) reflect this scope, including SharePoint software maintenance, centralized mass storage systems, Cisco networking equipment, and software licenses.

Competition under SEWP III was highly concentrated by both prime contractor count and potential value. Unicom Government, Inc. dominated by order volume with 7,631 orders and $935.7 million in potential value. International Business Machines Corporation held the largest potential value share at $1.21 billion across 647 orders, followed by Unisys Corporation at $615 million. Together, the top five primes by potential value—IBM, Unicom, Unisys, World Wide Technology LLC, and HP Inc.—captured 81 percent of combined potential value. The top five by order count captured 150 percent coverage, indicating significant overlap and demonstrating that while Unicom placed orders at high frequency, larger-value awards went to IBM and Unisys.

Customer concentration was moderate. The Department of the Army placed 1,674 orders (17 percent of total), the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command placed 1,497 orders, and the Air Force placed 919 orders. These three military customers accounted for roughly 35 percent of task orders, with the remaining 65 percent spread across 376 other federal agencies including the Defense Finance and Accounting Service and civilian departments.

Nearly all task orders carried no set-aside designation. Small business task orders represented only 15 percent of the portfolio, with the remainder unrestricted. Task order values ranged broadly, from small orders under $5,000 to large awards exceeding $2 million, with typical firm-fixed-price orders in the $50,000 to $500,000 range based on recent examples. Place of performance was nationwide across federal agencies and military installations.

This is an expired version of the SEWP GWAC. SEWP III was awarded in 2002-2004 and completed in 2007. The current SEWP GWAC is SEWP V, which was awarded in FY 2015. SEWP contracts offer a wide range of advanced technology including tablets, desktops and servers; IT peripherals; network equipment; storage systems; security tools; software products; cloud based services; video conferencing systems and other IT and Audio-Visual products.