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March 21, 2016 By AMK

One huge change to federal IT contracting coming this spring

The General Services Administration (GSA) is launching a new era in federal information technology acquisition this spring.

GSA logoThat’s when GSA releases requests for proposals for Alliant 2 Unrestricted and Alliant 2 Small Business, the next generation of the agency’s government-wide acquisition contracts.

The Alliant 2 contracts will likely be the largest federal IT services contracts of the next decade as measured by volume of orders. Unrestricted has a $50 billion ceiling over 10 years, while Small Business has a $15 billion ceiling.

The Alliant 2 contracts are also the first federal IT deals that use an objective method of selecting winners. Most IT companies have never seen anything like it.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2016/03/one-huge-change-federal-it-contracting-coming-spring/126679

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, Alliant, GSA, GWAC, IT, selection criteria, small business, source selection, technology

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