Center awards first three PASS task orders

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  • By Chuck Paone
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HANSCOM AFB, MASS. - --  The U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center awarded the first three of an anticipated 26 Professional Acquisition Support Services (PASS) task orders yesterday. 

ESC awarded two of the three task order awards to Quantech Services, Inc., which will provide Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) to the ESC Center Staff and functional offices, and to the 753 Electronic Systems Group (ELSG); the third task order, which was awarded to Odyssey Systems, will provide A&AS service to the 850 ELSG at Peterson AFB, Colo., and here. Combined, the three task orders are worth about $130 million and carry a five-year period of performance. 

On April 19, the center awarded eight contracts worth a total ceiling value of $800 million, to eight companies: Abacus Technology Corporation, Business Technologies & Solutions, Inc., Gemini Industries, Inc., Oasis Systems, Odyssey Systems, PE Systems, Inc., Quantech Services, Inc. and Sumaria Systems, Inc. These eight contractor teams are now competing for the individual task orders. 

The contracts will provide non-technical acquisition support to the center for the next five years. The selected contractors will provide a wide range of non-technical acquisition support services, including support of research, development and production activities to ESC here and at its geographically separated units throughout the country. The scope of work includes acquisition support, financial management, contracting support, and administrative and human resources. 

PASS is the second component of a three-part effort to replace the current vehicle used to provide A&AS support, the $1.4 billion Information Technology Services Program (ITSP) II, which currently constitutes nearly 40 percent of the ESC work force. ITSP II is set to expire June 30. The first component, the four-year, $88 million Specialized Cost Services, was awarded in November 2006. The final component, the $480 million, three-year Engineering and Technology Acquisition Support Services, known as ETASS, is expected to be awarded very soon.

"Awarding this first set of PASS task orders means we've formally begun the process of transitioning critical segments of our contractor workforce out of expiring contract vehicles and into PASS," said the center's director of Contracted Support Management, Linda Jean. "The big challenge now will be to complete that transition in an orderly manner while continuing to award the remaining 23 task orders."


CONTACT: Chuck Paone, (781) 377-5078, charles.paone@hanscom.af.mil