USCG C4IT SC IT IA Security Management Services

The U.S. Coast Guard established this Master IDIQ in June 2011 to procure information assurance security management services, with the ordering period closing December 16, 2016. This vehicle is now inactive and closed to new task orders.

The IDIQ was structured as a three-awardee small-business set-aside and has executed 37 task orders totaling $125.9 million in combined potential value, with $116.6 million obligated (93% of available value). Ordering activity peaked in 2013 (11 orders) and 2016 (11 orders), with lighter volume in intervening years. The most recent task order issued December 16, 2016, marking the end of the ordering period.

Scope covers Coast Guard Computer Incident Response Team (CGCIRT) support, Certification and Accreditation (C&A) services, Secure Communications Services (SECCOMMS), and information assurance training delivered to the Coast Guard Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Information Technology Service Center. Representative recent task orders address cyber operations center support, network security administration and computer network defense, C&A support services, information assurance and configuration management services, TEMPEST certification authority support, and compliance and reporting branch operations. All task orders priced as firm-fixed-price with periods of performance typically one to two years.

Prime contractor concentration is moderate. Netcentrics Corporation leads by potential value with 14 orders worth $60.3 million, while Ishpi Information Technologies, Inc. leads by order count with 21 orders valued at $40.3 million; Usmax Corporation holds 2 orders for $25.2 million. All orders fund Coast Guard programs exclusively.

About 59% of awarded task orders (22) carried total small-business set-aside designations; the remaining 41% (15 orders) were unrestricted competitive awards. Task orders range from under $600,000 to approximately $19.1 million, with most in the $1–7 million envelope. Place of performance is Alexandria, Virginia, with subordinate operational support to Coast Guard cyber command, certification and accreditation, and communications security divisions.

The USCG C4IT SC Information Technology Information Assurance Security Management Services Master IDIQ is intended to provide the US Coast Guard (USCG) Information Assurance (IA) Division with the necessary service support to assist the United States Coast Guard (USCG) IA in one or more of the areas of Coast Guard Computer Incident Response Team (CGCIRT), Certification and Accreditation (C & A), Secure Communications Services (SECCOMMS) and training to the United States Coast Guard Command, Control, Communications, Computer Information Technology (IT) Service Center (C4IT SC).