ITES-SW 2 is to support the IT requirements of the United States Army, Department of Defense, other Federal Agencies, and authorized Government Contractors supporting these agencies. Government Contractors working for these agencies may place Delivery Orders under this Contract on behalf of and for the benefit of these agencies if authorized by their Contracting Officer in accordance with the requirements of FAR 51 and/or DFARS 251 as appropriate.
Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solution (CHESS), in coordination with the Army Contracting Command (ACC), Rock Island (RI), requires contracts to support the U.S. Army’s IT software requirements, within the Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) to include remote OCONUS covering a full range of Information Technology (IT) software for client, server, storage, and network environments; for software maintenance; and for related incidental services and hardware as part of an Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 (ITES-SW 2) total solution.
The fundamental purpose of the ITES-SW 2 acquisition is to support the Army and all Federal agencies in their enterprise infrastructure and infostructure goals by leveraging commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software products and maintenance in 14 specific product categories:
The total potential value of this ten-year firm-fixed-price multiple-award contract is $13 Billion. There are 32 awarded companies on ITES-SW 2. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, is the contracting activity.