Notice ID: EDOFSA-25-000333
- Contract Award Date: Dec 20, 2024
- Contract Award Number: 47QTCA20D000E
- Task/Delivery Order Number: 91003125F0013
- Contractor Awarded Unique Entity ID: FFBKZK49R7M9
- Contractor Awarded Name: PPS INFOTECH LLC
- Contractor Awarded Address: Potomac, MD 20850 USA
- Base and All Options Value (Total Contract Value): $4,828,058.45
Under the General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), Contract Number 47QTCA20D000E, FSA is awarding Phoenix Programming Services (PPS) InfoTech, Limited Liability Company (LLC) a firm-fixed-price task order to procure operations and maintenance services for the Person Authentication Service (PAS) system.
Currently, only one source, PPS InfoTech, LLC, can continue the current services and support without causing disruption to FSA’s PAS System. A lapse in services and support would cause an immediate disruption to all mandatory business operations across FSA systems. In May of 2024, The Secretary of The Department of Education, mandated that the primary focus for FSA is to have a successful FAFSA 2025/2026. As a result, FSA shifted internal resources away from the PAS recompete (including Operations and Maintenance (OM), Systems Modernization and ID Proofing) to focus elsewhere.
Market research was started in September of 2024 and was conducted by engaging in numerous discussions with technical and subject matter experts to determine if other vendors had the capability to provide the same services for identity and access management for operations and maintenance, modernization and migration, and user verification processes to the scale required to support the scope of PAS services. FSA also surveyed various GSA sources and determined that these services are available under other GSA contract vehicles. However, the market research confirmed that PPS InfoTech, LLC is the only source capable of providing continued services under the entire scope of these highly specialized services within the time constraints, and thereby ensure mission-critical quality levels are achieved.
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