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NASA IT contract a boon for companies large and small

Apr 5, 2007 3:00 AM
by Melissa Frederick, The Examiner

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A new $5.6 billion federal government contract has 37 companies, many of them local, competing to provide information technology products and services to a number of federal agencies over the next seven years.

NASA, which admiPresidioters the contract, announced the winners of the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement IV contract last week. It is one of several Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts used to provide information technology services throughout the government, overseen by agencies including the U.S. General Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Commerce Department.

GSA recently awarded a $20 billion contract to three companies known as Networx Universal that is structured similarly but deals with telecommunications rather than IT.

A number of larger firms in the area, including GMRI of Manassas, GTSI of Chantilly, Presidio Corp. of Greenbelt and Apptis of Chantilly, were awarded the contract. Twenty-three small business also will compete for federal dollars, including 11 in the D.C. region.

“We’re still partying,” said Angela Inguillo, marketing manager for McLean-based small business iGov, which was among those chosen. The company brought in about $130 million in business from SEWP III, the contract’s predecessor.

IGov hopes to distinguish itself among the competing companies because, while a small business, it has a broader area of expertise than some of the more specialized companies participating, Inguillo said.

SEWP III generated about $4.5 billion