DISA releases first draft of comms equipment recompete

The Defense Information Systems Agency has given industry a first look at how it will conduct the recompete of its primary contract for communication infrastructure equipment and related services.

DISA uses the Capacity Services Communications contract to purchase products such as routers and switches. Other Defense Department entities and government partners can place orders against the contract as well.

In the draft solicitation released Tuesday, DISA said the new CSC III contract continues efforts to acquire “dynamically scalable communications capability” with an on-demand service approach. The idea behind this is to have the ability to adjust to increases and decreases in communications requirements.

Peraton is the incumbent, having inherited the current CSC II contract through its acquisition of Perspecta in 2021. Perspecta itself also took in the contract via an acquisition, that being the original winner Knight Point Systems in 2019.

Knight Point has captured both iterations of the contract, first in 2011 and then the recompete in 2018 that had a $902 million ceiling over up to 10 years.

DISA has obligated approximately $537 million in task order volume against the current contract to-date, according to GovTribe data. April 14, 2027 is the last date to order.

Appliances, monitoring equipment, monitoring and reporting software, and other types of supporting devices are also available through the CSC contract.