On-ramp bidding begins for $1.8B DOD readiness support contract
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Ross Wilkers
The General Services Administration and Defense Department are focusing this search to add more companies to the contract's major system support pool.
The General Services Administration and Defense Department are now ready for small businesses to start working on and submitting proposals for the on-ramp of PRISM, a potential $1.8 billion professional services contract vehicle.
GSA awarded the Personnel and Readiness Infrastructure Support Management program in mid-2024 to 13 companies that support DOD’s functions involving human resources, payroll activity and complex systems.
PRISM is divided into one pool focused on personnel and readiness, along with a second focused on what GSA and DOD call “Major Department of Defense Systems.”
In the on-ramp final solicitation released Friday, GSA and DOD are centering their search for more companies on PRISM’s pool for work in the second pool.
Major systems under this contract can include those for national security communications, surveillance or other capabilities aimed at enhancing national security and military readiness and effectiveness.
PRISM is set up to aid DOD's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and its subordinate components including the assistant secretary offices for readiness, manpower and reserve affairs, and health affairs.
Bids for this on-ramp are due to GSA by 3 p.m. Eastern time on Aug. 20.
Approximately $126.4 million in task order volume has flowed through PRISM since it was awarded with 89% of that spend falling within the personnel and readiness pool, according to GovTribe data. Kearney has been obligated the largest share of that spend at $56.7 million, or 44.9%.