Notice ID FA460021D0001-ITCCII

The 55th Contracting Squadron, Offutt AFB, NE intends to increase total contract value by $503M, from $887M to $1.39B. The ceiling increase is required to support USSTRATCOM as it conducts global operations in coordination with other Combatant Commands, Services, and appropriate United States Government agencies to deter and detect strategic attacks against the United States and its allies and is prepared to defend the nation as directed.  In order to execute these operations, USSTRATCOM utilizes a highly specialized robust IT infrastructure consisting of multiple critical systems to include unclassified, secret and top-secret local area networks.

This action to increase the ceiling of the ITCC II contract is necessitated due to several reasons such as design and construction delays, 2019 flood/weather delays, and mission capability adjustments. Additionally, global response to the Covid-19 Epidemic severely impacted global supply chains and tripled the cost of the IT products and supplies required to sustain operations.

Since initial contract award, Programs of Record, mission partners, and supporting components who directly support USSTRATCOM’s mission have found efficiencies by co-locating within the C2F or utilizing the USSTRATCOM IT enterprise to support the warfighter. USSTRATCOM policy mandates that ITCC II is the USSTRATCOM contract vehicle for all IT products and services, installed in the C2F, to include IT procurement. These procurements were not anticipated/understood/known at the time of initial contract award. Performance on the ITCC II contract demands an intimate knowledge of the Operating Systems within USSTRATCOM. It is also imperative that USSTRATCOM does not have experiences of unacceptable delays in fulfilling requirements or unacceptable impact to current operations. The ceiling increase of $503M is required to provide the contract capacity to continue meeting mission requirements…

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