Technical Information Engineering Services (TIES)

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) established the Technical Information Engineering Services (TIES) Master IDIQ on May 8, 2015, with a shared ceiling of $994.7 million and a last date to order of August 18, 2018—ordering closed 7 years and 10 months ago. This vehicle is no longer active.

TIES contracted engineering and technical services across the Intelligence and Information Warfare (I2WD) mission, spanning signals intelligence, measurement and signature intelligence, human intelligence, image intelligence, electronic warfare, information operations, language translation, C4-ISR, biometric-enabled intelligence, automatic target recognition, combat identification, radar, aircraft and ground vehicle survivability equipment, electro-optics, infrared, and cyberspace operations. Task orders funded research, development, engineering, program management, systems integration, prototype development, laboratory and field testing, and operational support across these domains.

Twenty-nine task orders were issued between September 2015 and May 2018. Combined potential value across all task orders totals $944.4 million, with $686 million (73 percent) obligated. Competition concentrated heavily among five primes. Dhpc Technologies, Inc. and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. dominated by potential value at $271.4 million and $258.4 million respectively across 5 and 6 orders. Polaris Alpha Advanced Systems Inc. ($172.7 million, 7 orders) and Caci Technologies, LLC ($162.2 million, 8 orders) held the next tier, with Leidos, Inc. at $46 million on a single order. These five firms captured 96 percent of combined potential value. All 29 task orders were unrestricted, non-set-aside awards.

Customer concentration reflected RDECOM's dominance as the issuing contracting office. RDECOM itself placed 16 orders valued at $478.8 million (roughly 51 percent of total), with subordinate Army Acquisition Support Center program executive offices—PEO Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (6 orders, $183.9 million), PEO Missiles and Space (2 orders, $96 million), PEO Aviation (1 order, $69.8 million)—and Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (1 order, $22.3 million) accounting for the remainder among named customers. Eight distinct customer agencies funded orders overall.

Task orders carried cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing and ranged from approximately $8 million to $72.4 million in ceiling value, with performance periods typically spanning 12 to 36 months. Base periods with option periods were common. Representative mega-orders included the aircraft survivability equipment support effort (W56KGU15D0006-0001, $72.4 million ceiling) and the cyber/offensive operations task (W56KGU15D0004-0003, $47.9 million ceiling).

The work conducted under TIES will span multiple areas of interest supporting the Information and Intelligence (I2WD) mission. Some of these areas includes (but not necessarily limited to) Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Measurement & Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Image Intelligence (IMINT), Electronic Warfare (EW), Information Operations (IO), Information Warfare (IW), Language Translation, Command, Control, Communication, Computers Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4-ISR), Biometric Enable Intelligence (BEI), Fusion Integrity, Automatic Target Recognition (ATR), Combat Identification (CID), Radio Detecting and Ranging (RADAR), Aircraft and Ground Vehicle Survivability Equipment (ASE & GSE), Electro-Optics (EO), Infrared (IR) requirements advancement or Cyberspace Operations.