With COMET 2, GSA is looking for partners who understand the basic principles of zero trust architecture, especially at the application level. Since GSA is pretty far along with zero trust implementation (100% implemented for users and devices and considerable maturity for data and applications), they’ll prefer vendors who can understand application level security.
So far, COMET 2 has garnered a lot of interest from the IT vendor community. GSA hosted an industry day for COMET in September with over 750 registrants and 400 companies in attendance.
SA plans to continue to provide transformation and modernization IT services to help update GSA’s legacy systems in COMET 2, but also expand the vehicle so there will be a larger ceiling and possibly more vendors. The ceiling is anticipated to be over $1 billion. IT services within COMET 2 may include application development and maintenance, systems engineering and integration, Cloud computing services, cybersecurity services, data analytics services, and training and support, but GSA has yet to solidify the list.
From what we know so far, COMET 2 will provide awards to both small businesses and other than small businesses (OTSBs). One question industry wants answered is how small businesses will be evaluated. In the current COMET, two of the four small business award winners sized out of the contract quickly because they performed so well, and GSA had to acquire more small businesses to continue to meet requirements.
As Federal AS proceeds with its digital transformation, COMET II will be the contract that continues to provide transformation and modernization IT services in support of the important business mission of GSA FAS.
*Note: Information subject to change as additional information about this solicitation becomes available.
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