Special Operations Command opens proposal window for $2.6B services contract

Special Operations Command has given small businesses the green light to start working on and turning in bids for a potential seven-year, $2.6 billion engineering and professional services contract.

The new SOF Global Services Delivery contract will succeed the current SOF Core Services Support Contract, which was awarded in 2020 to 46 companies. Both iterations are multiple-award contracts that cover a wide range of SOCOM’s needs in subject matter expertise and other knowledge-based services.

Proposals for SOF Global Services Delivery are due no later than 1 p.m. Eastern on May 13, SOCOM said in a Monday notice to release the final solicitation. SOCOM aims for the period of performance to begin on or around Sept. 2.

The command designed the vehicle to emphasize stability, agility and global reach in support of its missions inside and outside of the continental U.S.

SOCOM’s key priorities for the contract include training development, mission rehearsal, strategic planning, irregular warfare analysis, systems engineering, data management and global operational support.

SOCOM has structured the recompete around six primary work areas:

• Educating and training services
• Management support
• Program management
• Engineering and technical services
• Professional services
• Intelligence professional services
• Administrative and other related services

The command will award positions on the new contract to the 15 highest-scored bidders, including ties, via a two-step evaluation process.

Step one involves a strict review of whether bids include all of the required information and follow SOCOM’s directions. Any proposal that is found noncompliant will be removed from the competition.

For step two, SOCOM will evaluate and verify each proposal’s self-score in order to determine if there are discrepancies between that score and supporting documentation. If there is a discrepancy, SOCOM will make adjustments to the claimed score in order to set the validated score for the evaluation.

Inaccurate self-scores based on ambiguous, deceptive, faulty or misleading supporting documentation will be eliminated.

SOCOM has obligated roughly $521 million in task order volume to-date against the current contract, according to GovTribe data. Threat Tec, Prescient Edge, Spathe Systems, Core One Solutions and K2 Solutions are the top five incumbents.