Army planning for $1B+ agile development IDIQ
As the U.S. Army effects the culture change required for agile and DevSecOps adoption, it is planning a ten year, $1 billion multiple award IDIQ vehicle, which will allow for fixed price and time-and-materials orders, reports FedNewsNetwork. The RFP (under SAM notice ID 2024DCCOE005) also contemplates cost-type work.
Doug Bush, Army Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, recently told a media roundtable that fixed price and cost plus are “ends of a spectrum. In between those things lies a vast array of hybrid approaches that are tailored to different things.”
That indicates willingness for unconventional approaches, such as not determining the commerciality of the requirement upfront, so that offerors may propose either COTS or custom-built, cost-type solutions. Presumably, the cost-type offer would be adjusted for overrun risk as part of the cost realism evaluation.
“The Army says it’s continuing to revise the draft RFP in response to industry feedback.”
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