Accenture Federal wins $3.5B Energy IT recompete
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Ross Wilkers
The so-called CBOSS blanket purchase agreement is the Energy Department's main mechanism for acquiring IT support services.
Accenture’s U.S. federal subsidiary has won a potential seven-and-a-half year, $3.5 billion blanket purchase agreement to continue its role as the Energy Department’s primary enterprise IT and business support services provider.
This is the second iteration of the CIO Business Operations Support Services BPA, which Energy uses to carry out modernization efforts for its IT systems and information assets. A bulk of the department’s IT support services acquisitions flow through the CBOSS pact.
Energy awarded the CBOSS 2.0 recompete on Friday and received five bids in total, according to Federal Procurement Data System records.
Work under the new BPA encompasses five general areas: shared services, general IT support services, telecommunications, cybersecurity and analysis and studies.
Accenture Federal Services is also tasked to help Energy agencies and components with their migrations from legacy IT environments into more modern systems. The department wants to lean more on cloud-based offerings and continuous monitoring techniques for cybersecurity.
AFS won the current CBOSS pact in 2018 and has since received $2 billion in obligations for the work, according to GovTribe data.