Later this year, NASA is expected to move forward with the sixth iteration of its Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract. According to Carey Webster, vice president of research at Deltek, contractors should be preparing for the opportunity now.
Webster expects that NASA will release a final request for proposals in the spring, and awards are expected to be made around October 2024. And because this opportunity is so attractive to contractors — as it has no cap on awards — Webster urges contractors to dive into the draft RFP now.
“We do anticipate that the final RFP is going to look very similar, if not exact, to the draft RFP,” she shared in a new video interview with Executive Mosaic. “So anything that they can do to get a better understanding of the evaluation process within that draft, I recommend.”
NASA’s SEWP VI differs from previous iterations of the contract in focusing more on procuring information technology services in addition to IT products.
“It sort of has this reputation when people think about it as being an IT product contract, which it is — there’s a lot of IT products that are procured on this contract. But it’s interesting, what we’re seeing in [SEWP VI], at least what we’ve seen so far, is that they’re really going to focus more on that IT services piece,” Webster explained.
For more information about SEWP VI requirements and how contractors can prepare for the upcoming RFP, watch Webster’s full video interview here.