Systems Engineering Technology and Innovation (SETI)

The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded the Systems Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (SETI) Master IDIQ for developmental engineering support services across the Department of Defense, with ordering open through June 4, 2030. The vehicle is multiple-award with a $7.5 billion shared ceiling and two subcategories, an Unrestricted Pool and a Restricted Pool. Awards went to both large and small businesses, and each competed task order is first considered for a small business set-aside. The award date was June 14, 2018, and 3 years 7 months of ordering authority remains. SETI complements DISA's ENCORE III vehicle, which covers IT commodity services.

Ordering is steady. Ninety-one task orders have been issued, with 7, 8, 9, 6, and 6 orders in 2022 through 2026, and the most recent was awarded June 22, 2026. Obligations total $806.6 million, or 37% of the $2.15 billion combined task-order potential value. Sixty-three orders (69%) carry no set-aside, and 28 (31%) are total small business.

Competition is broad at 46 primes, but value concentrates in two firms: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (7 orders, $574.9 million combined potential value) and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (9 orders, $521 million). Business Computers Management Consulting Group (Bcmc) LLC ($212.2 million), Leidos, Inc. ($172.3 million), and Deloitte Consulting LLP ($155.8 million) follow, with a wider field of smaller firms holding the remaining orders. By order count, Riverside Engineering LLC and Bluestone Logic, LLC hold five orders each and Validatek Inc. holds four.

DISA places 84 of the 91 orders ($1.72 billion combined potential value). The four other customers are the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Enterprise Information Systems, the Air Force Air Combat Command, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, and the Defense Commissary Agency.

Recent orders cover satellite communications engineering, Global Command and Control System-Joint sustainment, public key infrastructure, cybersecurity systems support, zero trust architecture, electromagnetic spectrum planning, and ServiceNow support. Pricing is firm fixed price, cost plus fixed fee, or time and materials. The largest orders are the Global Command and Control System-Joint sustainment order ($90.9 million obligated against a $225.0 million ceiling) and the DISA ServiceNow support order ($59.3 million obligated against a $206.2 million ceiling). Many 2018 through 2020 orders are minimum guarantee awards obligated at five hundred dollars each, which are contractual floors and not representative order values. The solicitation specifies performance within the United States.

The Systems Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (SETI) contract will be an overarching approach for fulfilling requirements for developmental engineering support services across the Department of Defense (DoD)