Twelve Vehicle Actions a Day Is the Baseline

Fourteen notices went up on SAM.gov Monday with an IDIQ, a MAC or a MATOC in the title. A theater network vehicle at DISA, a battle-network vehicle at AFLCMC, two out of AFRL, the Pentagon's own security contract, and a NAVSEA notice consolidating submarine touch labor across all four public shipyards.

Our first instinct was a pile-on. So we counted the five business days before it.

It wasn't (chart below). Monday's fourteen sits under the 17 that posted on Sept. 28, and the six-day mean is 12.0 a day.

The vehicle layer does this every business day. The only reason it reads as a wave is that nobody watches it as a feed.

"If the vehicle is where the work actually gets bought, why is the recompete watch still keyed to contracts?"

One caveat: this counts titles, so it is a floor. A vehicle that doesn't say the word isn't in the 72.

DISA Threw Out NS-ACE and Wrote It Again

Amendment 0005 to HC102126R001, the Network Services AFRICOM CENTCOM EUCOM MAC IDIQ, posted Monday out of DITCO Europe. Its stated purpose is to "revise the solicitation in its entirety, to include the PWS and all other attachments."

Offers now close Nov. 4 at 10:00 CET, the third extension in this chain after 18 September and 23 October. Questions on the L1 spreadsheet are due Oct. 21.

The line that matters for anyone sitting on a near-final volume: "The Government will not consider offers received prior to the issuance of Amendment 0005."

Everything written against the old PWS is scrap. Full and open, NAICS 517111, performance in Germany, proposals in by email to the contracting officer.