WHS Systems Engineering Support Services 2016-2021

The Washington Headquarters Service awarded this Master IDIQ to support the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Systems Engineering in December 2016, with ordering closed as of May 14, 2021. The vehicle is no longer active for new task orders.

Eight task orders totaling $299.9 million in combined potential value were awarded under this vehicle, with $280.4 million (93%) already obligated. Orders funded technical and administrative support across three functional areas: Major Program Support, Front Office operations, and the Engineering Enterprise directorate. Specific work included engineering enterprise support, software engineering and schedule risk assessments, administrative program support, Defense Science Board multi-study support, and scientific and technical assistance across DoD acquisition programs. All task orders were cost-plus-fixed-fee arrangements serving the Office of the Secretary of Defense exclusively.

Science Applications International Corporation dominated the vehicle, winning five orders worth $186.7 million in combined potential value (62% of total). Serco Inc. captured two orders for $113.2 million (38%). A single $5 thousand order went to Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., representing minimal participation. No task orders carried set-aside designations; all were unrestricted.

Ordering activity peaked at award with four simultaneous orders in December 2016 (base-year Major Program Support and Engineering Enterprise task orders, plus two ancillary orders), followed by two orders in 2017 and two in 2020. The four-year ordering window closed in May 2021 without evidence of successor vehicle activity in the source material. Task order ceilings ranged from $5 thousand to $93.1 million, with most orders in the $20–$47 million range. The most recent award (September 2020) was a $9.2 million Defense Science Board support task order with ultimate completion in September 2025, though the vehicle itself had already closed to new orders by that date, indicating this order was placed during the final eight months of the ordering window.

The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Systems Engineering (DASD(SE)) is the focal point for all policy, practice, and procedural matters relating to Department of Defense Systems Engineering and its key elements to include technical risk management, software engineering, manufacturing and production, quality, and related disciplines. DASD(SE) develops and grows the Systems Engineering capability of the DoD. DASD(SE) provides guidance and policy to DoD components in the execution of their general and specialty engineering functions across the acquisition process. DASD(SE) is substantively engaged throughout the acquisition life cycle with major and selected acquisition programs across DoD to provide advice, guidance, mentoring and oversight of program technical execution. DASD(SE) supports a disciplined programmatic decision making process by providing an independent source of technical knowledge to key decision makers at critical milestones over the program life cycle. The tasks covered under this requirement include support to the DASD(SE) Director of Major Program Support D, MPS), Support to the Principal Deputy / ODASD(SE) Front Office (PD/FO) and Support to the DASD(SE) Director of Engineering Enterprise (D, EE).