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DISA Readying Final RFP For Potential $12 Billion, Single Vendor IT Consolidation Contract

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, September 3rd, 2020

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DISA Readying Final RFP For Potential $12 Billion, Single Vendor IT Consolidation Contract

DISA is readying to release a final Request for Proposals in late September for its potential $12 billion, single vendor contract to consolidate the Pentagon’s ‘Fourth Estate's’ network capabilities. During a pre-solicitation conference in August, DISA officials said a contract award for the Defense Enclave Services (DES) program is slated for December 2021. “Our role here is to migrate these [Fourth Estate] defense agencies from their legacy commodity IT networks to a single network we’re calling DoDNet, which DISA will…

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