Important Information

Alliant Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC)

• Alliant is the successor to six government-wide technology contracts: Millennia, Applications 'N Support for Widely-Diverse End-User Requirements (ANSWER), Safeguard, Virtual Data Center, Disaster Recovery, and Access Certificates for Electronic Services (ACES).
• This consolidation is due to GSA's Contract Vehicle Review Board determining that the retiring contracts are unnecessarily redundant.
• GSA has decided on two contracts. One (Alliant) is open to all bidders. The second (Alliant Small Business -- Alliant SB) will be reserved for small business bidders.
• The agreement will include common information technology products and services such as:
  -- Security
  -- Information assurance
  -- Business process re-engineering
  -- Communications
  -- Web development
  -- Modeling & simulation
  -- Biometrics
  -- Nanotechnology
• Both contracts run for a base period of five years, and each has one five-year option period.
• RFPs are scheduled to come out in August 2005. Contracts are scheduled to be awarded in June 2006.
• The Alliant GWAC:
  -- Is a ten-year Multiple Award/Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity
  -- Has a $50 billion ceiling
  -- Will include approximately 20 awards
• The Alliant Small Business GWAC:
  -- Has a cap of $15 billion
  -- Will include approximately 40 companies
  -- Allows bidding companies to form joint ventures for pooling strengths

For further information about the ALLIANT GWAC, please go to http://www.gsa.gov/alliant.