Government-Wide MACs

ALLIANT 2

The GSA’s next-generation GWAC, Alliant 2, is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) offering worldwide comprehensive and flexible IT solutions.  Alliant 2 provides federal agencies with all components of an integrated information technology (IT) solution, including existing new technologies that may emerge during the contract’s lifecycle and IT systems and services. 

The scope of Alliant 2 leverages leading-edge technologies (LETs) and is designed to stay current with the evolving Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), providing customers with the latest technology innovations. As the definition of IT changes over the lifecycle of the Alliant 2 contract, the scope will coincide with the current definition at any given time. This GWAC will provide best value IT solutions through the performance of a broad range of services, which may include integrating various technologies critical to the services being acquired.

The Alliant 2 Contract Offers:

• A $75B program ceiling with a five-year base period with one five-year option. Orders awarded within the effective period of the GWAC may extend an additional five years past the GWAC end date; through June 30, 2033
• Pre-competed, easy-to-use contract with streamlined ordering procedures based on FAR 16.505
• Serves all federal government agencies
• Allows for long-term planning of large-scale program requirements and decentralized ordering
• Has a broad and evolving (unlimited) IT scope
• Enables innovative solutions at competitive prices from 61 exceptionally qualified industry partners
• Flexible teaming arrangements at the task order level
• Low contract access fee of 0.75%
• No protests on orders $10 million and under; except on the grounds that the order increases the scope, period of performance, or maximum value of the GWAC
• Minimal ODC limitations 
• Complimentary scope-compatibility reviews by GSA

This government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract managed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Information Technology Acquisitions and Assessment Center (NITAAC) to permit the institutes and centers of NIH, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and all other federal agencies to acquire a wide range of information technology (IT) solutions and services. 

• Agency: DOD IAC Program Management Office, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
• Issuing Office: AFICA/KD
• Authorized to Issue Orders: All Federal Agencies
• Scope: All cybersecurity and information systems-related research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) services and/or analyses that will generate scientific and technical information (STI) in support of contract objectives. CS TAT offers expert research and analysis to government, industry, academia, and other approved users in the four technical areas listed below. STI products and services provided under CS TAT are intended to increase the productivity of the RDT&E community, as well as other scientific and engineering group
• Technical Focus Areas: Software Data and Analysis, Cyber Security (CS), Modeling and Simulation (M&S), Knowledge Management (KM) & Information Sharing
• Period of Performance: December 2015 through November 2020 (ordering period)
• Contract Type: FFP; CPFF; FFP-LOE
• Contract Number: FA8075-16-D-0003
• Government Fees: 1.9%
• Ceiling: $5 billion

• Agency: DOD IAC Program Management Office, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
• Issuing Office: AFICA/KD
• Authorized to Issue Orders: All Federal Agencies
• Scope: Defense Systems related RDT&E and R&D related A&AS services for supporting all aspects of identified or potential military, national security-related, and dual use applications of related technologies and methods, as well as the development of tools and techniques that enhance the mission of the DOD R&E community.
• Technical Focus Areas: Survivability/Vulnerability; Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability, and Interoperability (RMQSI); Military Sensing; Advanced Materials; Weapon Systems; Energetics; Autonomous Systems; Directed Energy; and Non-lethal Weapons
• Period of Performance (PoP): 23 June 2014 – 22 June 2019
• TAT PoP: 60 months
  
• Contract Type: FFP; CPFF; FFP-LOE
  
• Contract Number: FA8075-14-D-0016
  
• Government Fees: 1.9%
  
• Ceiling: $6.9 billion

• Agencies: Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and General Services Administration (GSA)
  
• Authorized to Issue Orders: All Federal Agencies
• Scope: Human Capital and Training offerings allow federal agencies to procure customized human capital, training, and organizational performance improvement solutions from a list of pre-qualified vendors. 
  
• Focus Areas: Human Capital, Training, Organizational Performance Improvement
  
• Period of Performance: 
  • Contract Base Period: September 26, 2016 - September 25, 2021
    
  • 5-Year Option Period: September 26, 2021 - September 25, 2026
    
  • 6-Month Extension: September 26, 2026 - March 25, 2027
    
• Contract Type: All contract types (e.g., Firm Fixed Price, Cost-Reimbursement, Time and Materials/Labor-Hour) 
  
• Contract Numbers: GS02Q16DCR0005 and GS02Q16DCR0038

Booz Allen is nationally recognized as an industry leader and a human capital, training, and organizational performance improvement consultant of choice, with an unparalleled reputation as an honest broker. We bring our capabilities and tailored solutions to clients by:

• Leveraging more than a century of experience as a consulting firm and our long history of serving the Federal Government
• Providing “integrated delivery teams” to support agency clients, combining human capital, training, and organizational performance improvement expertise with agency-specific experience. Using our cadre of more than 3,800 skilled human capital and learning staff holding advanced degrees and credentials ranging from Change Management, Lean Six Sigma, and Human Capital Strategy to Instructional Systems Design, Four Levels of Kirkpatrick Evaluation, and Project Management Professional
• Building on over a quarter century of continuous service as a partner on OPM’s Training and Management Assistance (TMA) contract vehicle (HCaTS replaces the legacy OPM TMA vehicle) and with its numerous customer agencies—a partnership that provides strategic human capital management solutions to help them cost-effectively meet their performance objectives. 

Why Booz Allen 

Booz Allen has had an early and sustained impact on the transformation of human capital in the federal government.  We helped OPM develop the first version of the Human Capital Assessment and Accountability Framework (HCAAF) and have enabled numerous agencies to get from “red” to “green.”  We have been routinely selected to address the most challenging human capital and training problems and have led three of the four major human capital transformation efforts in the Federal Government that have occurred in the past two decades (i.e., Internal Revenue Service [IRS], Department of Homeland Security [DHS], and the Office of the Director for National Intelligence [ODNI]). We develop solutions consistent with federal laws and regulations yet allow agencies to take advantage of results-oriented personnel flexibilities. These critical engagements have established Booz Allen as a human capital, training, and organizational performance improvement consultant of choice—as has our proven track record and our awards and recognition for providing innovative solutions across hundreds of human capital and training projects with nearly all federal agencies. 

Credibility 

• We have proudly partnered with OPM on the legacy TMA contract vehicles, on both the human capital and training contracts, since its inception 25+ years ago.
• Focusing on Strategic Human Capital Management to include Training and Organizational Performance Improvement. 
• We have a substantial business area specifically focused on delivering human capital, learning, and organizational performance improvement services to the private and public sectors, allowing us to leverage best practices from both.
• This business segment is led by partners and senior managers who are human capital learning and organizational performance improvement experts.
• Our business structure allows us to apply a holistic perspective to strategic human capital management—focusing on agency and human capital strategy, training and performance, information technology (IT), and business processes. The ability to deliver seamlessly integrated solutions across the problem space helps us address client problems rather than merely provide services.

Depth of Expertise 

We have the largest contingent of human capital, training, and organizational performance resources in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area—80% hold advanced degrees, and more than 28% hold security clearances. Several hundred staff have credentials/certifications from professional organizations, and our consultants are encouraged to hold leadership positions within those organizations, serve on panels, and deliver presentations to the international HR community. 

Blended Solutions 

Most human capital initiatives fail due to a static, one-dimensional view of human capital and performance. Too often, a “one size fits all” approach is applied, where the same steps are reused regardless of the type of project, and the client receives poor value. Too much time is spent force-fitting an initiative into one area exclusively (i.e., human capital or learning), resulting in poor allocation of the client’s resources. Our experience has led us to believe a more optimal approach is to “blend” human capital and learning functional areas to provide a more complete solution. Blended solutions are an interwoven mix of human capital, learning, and organizational performance improvement capabilities to address agencies’ people-related challenges comprehensively.

We frequently see the impact of developing fragmented solutions when integrated solutions are critical because only one stakeholder (HR, Training, or performance management) is involved in shaping and implementing recommendations for increasing performance. We have also seen that isolated human capital or learning solutions often uncover a need for more fundamental organizational culture, design/structure, and strategy interventions to resolve the systemic challenges organizations face that prevent or preclude significant performance improvement.

We have successfully partnered with clients to develop and implement blended solutions. At the Defense Contract Management Agency, we initially focused on developing competencies, identifying workforce competency gaps, and creating solutions. This effort grew into mapping learning opportunities to each competency and forming the backbone data to serve as the foundation for a Learning Management System. As an outgrowth of those activities, the effort culminated in creating career paths and comprehensive career guides for every career field in the agency. Without having an understanding of the intersections between human capital and learning and how they can be combined to increase the effectiveness of an initiative, multiple procurements may have been required and, even more dramatically, the upfront data collected in the competency modeling exercises may have proved incomplete or unusable for the subsequent downstream efforts.

As a result, Booz Allen Hamilton’s views that providing blended solutions to the federal government optimizes the benefits associated with solutions, encourages collaboration and the development of shared solutions across internal “people” systems, and allows the government to purchase end-to-end human capital/learning system and change solutions.

Overview of HCaTS

The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) collaborated on the HCaTS vehicle to better address and respond more effectively and efficiently to the federal government’s human capital and training challenges. This partnership allowed each agency to bring to bear their respective strengths, namely GSA’s “acquisition capabilities, tools, and strategic sourcing experience” and OPM’s “expertise in human resources, human capital, and training” to develop the HCaTS IDIQ contract vehicle.

HCaTS allows federal agencies to procure customized human capital, training, and organizational performance improvement solutions from a list of pre-qualified vendors. The contract allows for all contract types (e.g., Firm Fixed Price, Cost-Reimbursement, Time and Materials /Labor-Hour) with the ability to combine contract types within a task order.

To further drive cost competitiveness, there are no pre-established labor rates for competitive task orders, and rates are established for each task order. Labor rates will be established for all competitive task orders and will be based on the task requirements, market conditions, and skills required for individuals necessary to complete the requested work.

HCaTS Human Capital Team

Booz Allen’s approach to Human Capital helps clients design, implement, and evaluate formal systems to ensure the effective and efficient use of human talent to implement business strategy. The skills, creativity, innovation, and insight that organizations need to thrive in these times all depend on managing human capital wisely. This capability helps clients understand what human capital programs they need and how they manage human capital to achieve improved business performance.

Our approach to Organization and Human Capital includes the following service offerings:

• Career Development Systems
• Competency-Based Organizations
• Leadership Development
• Organization Design
• Performance Management
• Strategic Recruiting, Staffing, and Retention
• Strategic Workforce Planning
• Succession Planning
• Survey Assessment Services
• Total Rewards
• Work-Life Programs
• Workplace Diversity
• Human Capital Strategy

Our service offerings focus on the strategy, design, and implementation of all components of the human capital lifecycle and enable our clients to create and sustain high-performance cultures.

We provide data-based strategic assistance to help private and public sector organizations align their human capital with business strategy by applying workforce planning, analysis, and assessment processes and developing competency models that provide a “line of sight” to align individual, group, and organizational performance. We provide HR advisory services to help organizations with talent management, performance management, and provision of HR services.

We also help organizations analyze and improve performance via work/job/structure design and survey and evaluation programs. 

Our Expertise 

• Our staff have advanced degrees in I/O Psychology, Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Human and Organizational Studies, Compensation, and Industrial Labor Relations
• Our functional value proposition is centered on the breadth of experience and depth of expertise of our staff, who also possess numerous commercial certifications such as SHRM SPHR/ PHR, IPMA-CP, Organization Design, and Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)
• Our staff have a deep understanding of private and public sector human capital issues and have been integral to developing Human Capital standards and industry best practices
• We have deep knowledge and expertise in designing, developing, and implementing Organizational and Human Capital strategies and tailored solutions for the problems our clients face

HCaTS Learning Team

Booz Allen provides tailored training, education, and performance support services and solutions, using proven methodologies and a standards-based framework to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and keep pace with technological innovations. Our approach combines industry best practices with our extensive practical experience in the learning space.

At Booz Allen, we help clients develop a roadmap with strategies specifically designed to achieve the goals and objectives of their unique business model. Such strategic planning can provide the foundation for creating training content, leveraging technology, and building solutions as part of a broader human capital strategy. We work closely with clients to examine relationships among organizational goals to determine inclusive, comprehensive approaches to solving their performance issues.

When clients are ready, we help with the practical design, development, implementation, integration, and evaluation of the learning solutions identified in their roadmap. Whether clients need standard competency models that embrace career paths and job families or task-oriented training content, our approach is customized to their organizational situation, economics, business culture, and existing technology investments.

• Agency: DOD IAC Program Management Office, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
• Issuing Office: AFICA/KD
• Authorized to Issue Orders: All Federal Agencies
• Scope: Homeland Defense and Security-related RDT&E and R&D related A&AS services supporting all aspects of identified or potential military, national security-related, and dual use applications of related technologies and methods, as well as the development of tools and techniques that enhance the mission of the DOD R&E community.
• Technical Focus Areas: Homeland Defense & Security, Critical Infrastructure Protection, WMD, CBRN Defense, Biometrics, Medical, Cultural Studies, Alternative Energy
• Period of Performance: May 2014 through April 2019
• Contract Type: FFP; CPFF; FFP-LOE
• Contract Number: FA8075-14-D-0002
• Government Fees: 1.9%
• Ceiling: $900 million

IAC MAC

Scope:

IAC MAC competes work for Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E), R&D and/or other advisory services aligned to any or all its 22 technical scope areas to collect, analyze, synthesize, produce, and disseminate Scientific and Technical Information (STI) to DOD and Federal government users. R&D services consist of predominantly applied research and/or development efforts for the primary purpose of advancing scientific and technical knowledge or applying that knowledge to the extent necessary to achieve agency and national goals.

Technical Focus Areas:

Advanced Materials, Alternative Energy, Autonomous Systems, Biometrics, C4ISR, CBRN Defense, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cultural Studies, Cyber-Security, Directed Energy, Energetics, Homeland Security & Defense, Knowledge Management and Info Sharing, Medical, Military Sensing, Modeling & Simulation, Non-Lethal Weapons and Info Operations, RMQSI, Software and Data Analysis, Survivability & Vulnerability, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons Systems.

One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS)

OASIS is the General Service Administration’s (GSA) most comprehensive and flexible Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for complex professional service requirements.  The comprehensive scope of the OASIS contract spans six core service disciplines – Program Management, Management Consulting, Engineering, Scientific, Logistics, and Finance.  It is organized around 28 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes and six exceptions, which are allocated among seven NAICS code pools.  Clients may issue a task order in the pool where the requirement best aligns to the NAICS code associated with that type of work.   Booz Allen Hamilton received awards in all seven pools and therefore, is able to apply technical and professional skill sets across the entire scope of OASIS.

Why the OASIS Contract

• Available for use by all Federal government agencies worldwide
• Span many areas of expertise and mission spaces
• Span multiple professional service disciplines
• Allow flexibility for all contract types, including hybrids and cost-reimbursement, at the task order level
• Allow ancillary support components, commonly referred to as Other Direct Costs (ODC), at the task order level

The OASIS Contract Offers

• Full-service support for program management, management consulting, logistics, engineering, scientific and financial services for Commercial and Non-Commercial requirements
• Reduced procurement lead times and administrative costs
• Access to pre-certified and “best in class” contractors
• Subcontracting flexibility – teaming determined at task order level
• No limits on contract or task order ceiling values
• Innovative tiered access fee, ranging from 0.1% – 0.75% based on obligation level
• 104 standardized labor categories; Ordering Contracting Officers may allow other labor categories
• CONUS and OCONUS requirements
• Decentralized ordering
• Access to the Estimating Tool to assist with preparation of labor portion for Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) 

Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC)

SPARC, an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, will help the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies and offices transform and modernize their information technology infrastructure and systems.

Functional Areas Include:

• Initiation, Concept, and Planning Services
• Requirements Services 
• Design Services
• Development Services 
• Formal Testing
• Security Control Assessment 
• Independent Verification and Validation Services
• Maintenance Services 
• Support Services

The SPARC Contract Offers:

• Strategic, technical, and program management guidance and support
• End-to-end modernization of business processes, supporting systems, and IT systems

Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation (T4NG)

T4NG is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Task Order (MATO) Contract. This contract is fulfilling the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology requirement for contractor-provided solutions in support of Information Technology, health IT, and telecommunications. It include services and incidental hardware/software, for customer requirements that vary across the entire spectrum of existing and future technical environments with a base ordering period of five years with one five-year option period.

The program ceiling $22.319B and individual Task Orders are issued on a best value and/or LPTA, performance-based Time-and-Materials (T&M), Cost Reimbursement (CR), and/or Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) basis. The Supreme Court ruling regarding the rule of two seems to be resulting in more SDVOSB awards. 

Our team of 32 subcontractors—each selected for its unique capabilities and depth across the requirements of the contract—and our commitment to meeting small business participation requirements allow us to provide our customers with a value-added resource to help them accomplish their missions. 

Booz Allen understands the continually evolving environment in which government agencies must function. Our capabilities available through the VA’s T4NG contract allow customers to quickly obtain Booz Allen’s comprehensive expertise, anywhere in the world, to accomplish their missions. Booz Allen’s sophisticated program office infrastructure provides quick-reaction support capabilities.

T4NG Functional Areas Include:

• Program Management support
• Systems/Software Engineering
• Software Technology Demonstration and Transition
• Test and Evaluation
• Independent Verification and Validation
• Enterprise Network
• Enterprise Management Framework
• Operation and Maintenance
• Cyber Security
• Training
• IT Facilities