Coast Guard picks 3 for $700M tech lifecycle pact
A U.S. Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter flies to the U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego air station on June 28, 2025 in San Diego. Photo by Kevin Carter / Getty Images
By
Ross Wilkers
The Coast Guard is using this blanket purchase agreement to bring together its IT support structure and business practices into a single model.
The Coast Guard has awarded three companies positions on a five-year, $700 million blanket purchase agreement for lifecycle support services across the agency’s systems and applications portfolio.
AttainX, VivSoft Technologies, and a GoHPT-ISHPI joint venture called Agile Defense will compete for task orders to work with the Coast Guard on bringing together its IT support structure and business practices into a single model.
Coast Guard officials received 20 total bids for the C5ISC Operational and Modernization Pipeline for Application Support Services BPA, according to Federal Procurement Data System records. The pact also goes by the acronym of COMPASS and was reserved for 8(a) small businesses.
C5ISC refers to the Coast Guard’s Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Service Center. The BPA’s original sources sought notice from February 2022 outlines how this organization is responsible for the agency’s enterprise information systems and applications.
The agency is also looking to adopt more of an agile development approach for its systems and applications, which can include preventative and adaptive maintenance work.