By Jane Edwards
The General Services Administration has awarded nine companies positions on a potential 10-year, US$920 million blanket purchase agreement to acquire supply chain risk illumination tools and analytic support services.
GSA announced the selected vendors for the Supply Chain Risk Illumination Professional Tools and Services, or SCRIPTS, BPA through award notices published Thursday on the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation.
The agency received 23 offers for the SCRIPTS BPA, which will support the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.
The awardees are:
Convergent Solutions
Carahsoft
Deloitte Consulting
Fortress Government Solutions
IBM
iWorks
Knexus Research
Markesman
Poplicus
What Is the SCRIPTS BPA?
The SCRIPTS BPA seeks to help mitigate risks of fraud, abuse and adversarial exploitation of the supply chain.
Through this procurement vehicle, the Department of Defense and federal civilian executive branch agencies will have access to deployable supply chain risk illumination tools for vendor vetting, cyber hygiene and foreign ownership control and influence, among others, to help screen vendors and evaluate supplier risks in real time.
In October 2023, GSA issued a draft request for quote for the BPA, which has a five-year base term and a five-year option period.
