Industrial Base Analysis Support

The Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Services awarded a sole-source contract to McAleese & Associates, P.C. for industrial base analysis support under FAR 6.302-1 (only one responsible source), with contract number HQ003426CE072 on September 18, 2026.

The justification asserts McAleese is the only responsible source capable of satisfying the requirement without substantial cost duplication and unacceptable national security delays. The contractor possesses a proprietary 30-year historical defense financial database (the McAleese Defense Value Chain Model), advanced predictive modeling capabilities, and operates as a "pure play" analytical firm with zero Organizational Conflict of Interest status—critical for providing objective analysis supporting billion-dollar procurement decisions by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. A Sources Sought Notice issued August 6, 2026 yielded no responses; market research of GSA MAS contractors and secondary research within the defense sector confirmed no competing vendor possesses McAleese's combination of historical data infrastructure, proprietary modeling, and conflict-free corporate structure. Substantial cost duplication exceeding the base year contract value and unacceptable operational delays of 12–18 months from personnel security clearances and model validation requirements support the sole-source determination. The contract runs for a 12-month firm-fixed-price base period from September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027, with two 12-month option periods and a six-month extension option, through February 28, 2029. The contractor will evaluate the eight defense prime contractors (BAE Systems, Boeing, General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, Northrop Grumman, and RTX Corporation) plus four additional mid-tier and non-traditional defense firms designated quarterly by the Contracting Officer's Representative.