Contract Award: Convergent Solutions Inc. (McLean, Virginia) – $15,577,761.

Convergent Solutions Inc., McLean, Virginia, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract (HQ0034-21-C-0016) in the amount of $15,577,761. The total if all options are exercised is $30,662,500. The Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Illumination contract procures supply chain illumination services for the Department of Defense (DOD) and government agencies to enable these agencies to assess and monitor industrial health and security of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) for supply chain resiliency and effectiveness. Supply chain illumination enables the identification of opportunities, vulnerabilities and systemic dependencies that are crucial to assessing the health of the government’s DIB suppliers and their affiliations. The information would be ingested onto a government-wide database and enable the government to conduct and form holistic industrial health assessment criteria necessary to guide procurement decisions as an enterprise. Given COVID-19, the requirement is a critical priority for DOD to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on DIB, in order to prioritize and deploy capital to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities. Work will be performed in McLean, Virginia. The following funds have been obligated for this action: fiscal 2020 research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), defense wide funds in the amount of $4,612,055; fiscal 2021 RDT&E, defense wide funds in the amount of $76,864; fiscal 2021 operations and maintenance (O&M), defense wide funds in the amount of $3,759,339; fiscal 2020 procurement, defense wide funds in the amount of $1,500,00; fiscal 2021 O&M, Navy funds in the amount of $1,594,170; fiscal 2021 RDT&E, Navy funds in the amount of $499,500; fiscal 2021 O&M, Air Force funds in the amount of $560,360; fiscal 2021 O&M, Army funds in the amount of $1,693,966; fiscal 2020 RDT&E, non-DOD funds in the amount of $137,500; and fiscal 2021 O&M, non-DOD funds in the amount of $1,144,004. The expected completion date is Aug. 15, 2022. Washington Headquarters Services, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity. (Awarded Dec. 7, 2020)