Technical Security Systems 2013-2018

The Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations awarded this Master IDIQ for technical security systems installation on March 15, 2013, with the last date to order on September 14, 2018 — the vehicle is no longer active and has been closed to new orders since late 2018. The shared ceiling was $32 million; task orders obligated $16.6 million against the vehicle's combined potential value, representing 100 percent obligation of all awarded work.

Technical security systems work dominates the portfolio: procurement, shipment, installation, and commissioning of alarm systems, CCTV equipment, access control, and related physical security infrastructure at overseas diplomatic posts. Typical task orders include equipment procurement, site installation, labor for extended work at post, and closeout tasks, with single order values ranging from roughly $24,000 to $2.86 million. Place of performance spans diplomatic facilities worldwide, including locations named in recent orders: Helsinki, Rome, Niamey, Baghdad, Sanaa, Moscow, Tripoli, Santo Domingo, Chiang Mai, Erbil, and others, reflecting State Department overseas building operations scope.

Ordering momentum declined in the vehicle's final years. The vehicle issued 102 task orders from May 2013 through September 2018, with annual volume dropping from 23 orders in 2014 to 11 in 2018, indicating the vehicle was being wound down as work completion or program transition accelerated. All customers were the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations itself — no inter-agency ordering occurred.

Competitive concentration favors three primes. Usmax Corporation led with 33 orders and $6.9 million combined potential value. AES International Corporation followed with 30 orders and $3.4 million. Applied Security Technologies Inc. placed third with 27 orders and $2.5 million combined value. Xator LLC and Gilford Corporation captured the remaining work, holding eight and three orders respectively. The top three primes captured roughly 76 percent of awards by order count and 73 percent by potential value.

About 72 percent of task orders carried no set-aside designation; the remaining 28 percent were total small business set-asides. Pricing was predominantly firm fixed price, with one fixed-price award fee order appearing in the recent sample. This vehicle is historical; it closed to new ordering over seven years ago.