The General Services Administration, Federal Acquisition Service has a continuing requirement for a government-wide Multiple Award Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) for Information Technology (IT) hardware and software commodities, ancillary supplies and services.

The General Services Administration (GSA) IT Schedule 70 (IT70) intends to issue Multiple Award Blanket Purchase Agreements for Information Technology (IT) Hardware and Software Commodities, Ancillary Supplies, and Services as a follow-on to the First Generation Information Technology (1GIT) BPAs. The First Generation BPAs were based on industry market research which suggested a segmented model with multiple sets of BPAs serving individual commodity groups. This approach was only moderately successful. Direct customer feedback was used to develop the 2GIT integrated approach as experience has indicated that customers are looking for a single source for all of their commodity needs to provide a total solution.

The fundamental scope of the 2GIT BPAs is to provide a total solution one-stop-shop in the Information Technology market to meet the needs of the Air Force, Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, and other federal, state, local, regional, and tribal governments.

The Second Generation Information Technology (2GIT) BPAs will contain attributes not found in other IT commodity acquisition solutions within the Federal Government. Further, the 2GIT BPAs are based on direct customer feedback, a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Air Force, and include strategic sourcing attributes such as data collection and reporting. With this approach the U.S. Air Force has decided to make the 2GIT BPA a mandatory use contract vehicle for the replacement of the NETCENTS-2 Products IDIQ contract. The use of Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract BPAs eliminate contracting and open market costs such as: the search for sources; the development of technical documents and solicitations; and the evaluation of offers. This BPA will further decrease costs, reduce paperwork and save time by eliminating the need for repetitive, individual purchases from the GSA Schedule contract. The end result is a purchasing mechanism for the Government that works better and costs less.

The Contractor shall provide a secure Data Center, end user, network, and radio equipment that will be accessible government-wide with an increased priority for Cyber-Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM). The 2GIT BPA is predominantly for products. Any services shall be incidental (ancillary) and not constitute the preponderance of any orders.

The General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Information Technology Category (ITC) would like to work with:

• Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) of commercial off-the-shelf hardware, software and ancillary services under the following Special Item Numbers (SINS):
  • 33411 –         Purchasing of New Electronic Equipment
  • 811212 –       Hardware Maintenance
  • 511210 –       Software Licenses
  • 54151 –         Software Maintenance Services
  • Order Level Materials (OLM)
  • Ancillary SINs (ANC)