Contracts Suport SOCOM’s TACLAN IT Needs
Apr 03, 2012 18:18 EDT
Special forces are even more reliant on excellent communications infrastructure; not to mention help desk support that can goes the extra miles with them. On October 2005, IT consulting firm iGov Technologies, Inc. in McLean, VA received an indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity contract to design, install, and support US SOCOM’s Tactical Local Area Network (TACLAN) related equipment, as part of the Special Operations Forces Digital Environment (PM-SDE) program. TACLAN provides everything from help desk support, to management and evolution of hardware configurations, to the creation of new software that offers flexible interfaces to communications, databases, and mission applications.
iGovTech created Team TACLAN, based in Tampa, FL, to execute the contract, which included additional industry and academic partners. A 2012 award appears to have placed TACLAN’s near-term future in other hands…
ARMA is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, which includes a number of former Special Forces and DoD personnel. their list of strategic partners does not include iGov.
March 15/12: US SOCOM issues 2 FBO solicitations for TACLAN work. One is a secure WLAN solicitation:
“This request for information is a market research tool to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources which will be used for planning purposes and to determine if potential sources exist to support the requirement…. USSOCOM is seeking information from companies capable of providing a non-developmental, deployable, NSA- approved secure wireless local area network (WLAN) capability.”
The other involves a related solicitation for securing data:
“USSOCOM is seeking information from companies capable of providing a non-developmental, National Institute of Standards (NIST)/National Security Agency (NSA)-approved capability that protects Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) and up to SECRET Data at Rest (DaR) on Special Operations Forces (SOF) Mobile Computing Devices (MCD). This capability will be highly integrated with the Tactical Local Area Network (TACLAN) Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) capabilities…”
June 21/11: Final TACLAN RFP issued on FBO.gov. It has gone through many modifications since the original solicitation on Nov 23/10.
Feb 19/10: iGov Technologies of McLean, VA gets its TACLAN contract maximum increased from $300 million to $450 million, presumably as part of a contract extension (92222-08-D-0017, Modification).
Oct 5/05: iGov receives the TACLAN contract, with a maximum ordering amount of $300 million. Work will be performed in Tampa, FL; and firm-fixed price, cost-plus fixed fee, or time and material orders may be placed over the next 5 years. This contract was awarded through a Small Business Set-Aside competitive procurement (H92222-05-D-0017). iGov release.
