The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last Thursday evening selected 30 Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses to compete for up to $1.5 billion in task orders under a new service contract for non-information technology support throughout the department.DHS Logo DHS

The new Program Management, Administrative, Clerical and Technical Services (PACTS II) contract replaces PACTS I, which was valued at up to $1 billion. Under PACTS II, vendors will supply non-IT support services to enable DHS business and program units to accomplish their mission objectives as well as cross-organizational missions.

PACTS II is organized into two award and performance categories, Functional Category (FC) 1 for program management and support, and FC2 for operations and administrative support. DHS selected 12 vendors to compete for task orders under FC1. The awardees are: Agile Homeland Security Group; Archimedes Global Inc.; Flatter & Associates; gTANGIBLE Corp.; Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions LLC; ITility LLC; Management and Technical Services Alliance JV; Old Dominion Strategies; Pathfinder Consultants LLC; ScaVet Technologies LLC; and Strategic Operational Solutions Inc.

Under FC2, the awardees are:  Aktarius LLC; Analytic Strategies; APG TECHNOLOGIES LLC; Information Technology Coalition Inc.; Interior Systems Inc. dba ISI Professional Services; Lukos-VATC JV LLC; MIRACORP Inc.; ProTech Services Alliance USA LLC; Sciolex Corp.; Strategic Alliance Business Group JV; Systems Kinetics Integration Inc.; Szanca Solutions Inc.; TechOp Solutions International Inc.; The Reger Group LLC; TMC-TeleSolv; Totally Joined For Achieving Collaborative Techniques LLC; Vision Centric Inc.; and X Corp Solutions Inc.

The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a two-year base period and three one-year option periods.

The request for proposals for PACTS II was issued in summer 2014.