Whose Schedule Is That Order Actually On?

If you hold base-level IT services anywhere in the Air Force or Space Force portfolio, somebody has already written the memo that moves your scope onto an enterprise vehicle. At Los Angeles AFB that memo turned into an order on May 29.

One order, and the 61st Communications Squadron's entire IT shop changed contracts.

It landed on EITaaS Wave 1, the Air Force's single-award BPA with CACI NSS as teaming-arrangement lead, nine small business members underneath it, and a ceiling of $5,712,635,494 running to August 2032. The recipient was Vision Information Technology Consultants, one of the nine.

Ares Enterprise had been doing that work as a subcontractor to Trace Systems, and Ares is not on the team.

So it protested. On September 3, GAO sustained on both grounds it raised and recommended the agency terminate the order and run a new competition.

"When a requirement moves onto an enterprise vehicle, who checks that the vehicle can actually carry it?"

How a base IT shop ends up on somebody else's BPA

The path here is the one your own accounts are on.

Trace held an Army RS3 task order for the LAAFB work, issued March 1, 2025, with a base year and four option years.

The agency never exercised the first option. It ran a series of one-month bridge contracts instead, and performance ended May 31, 2026.

Behind that sits a June 9, 2023 Air Force Deputy CIO memorandum directing that every local IT contract providing field services transition to the EITaaS BPA. The bridges were the countdown.

The scope call itself is worth reading twice. The contracting officer's determination and findings, signed May 21, 2026, rested on the EITaaS ordering guide, a July 2025 CACI briefing about the BPA, the views of the BPA contracting officer, and the views of a CACI official. When the COTR asked whether knowledge management and the FOIA and PII records functions were really in scope, the answer came back yes, from CACI and from the BPA contracting officer.

Eight days later the order went out: a 9-month base, two 1-year options, and a six-month FAR 52.217-8 extension.