IBM Gets New Contract to Help GSA Manage, Maintain Contracting Websites

IBM has received a two-year, $24.5M contract to help the General Services Administration operate and maintain two online contracting information repositories while migrating data stored in those systems to a new platform.

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The company will continue to support the current System for Award Management and Federal Procurement Data System under the firm-fixed-price, time and materials contract, GSA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice.

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The agency seeks to integrate entity registration, exclusions and contract data functions from the legacy applications with the updated SAM.gov site.

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IBM has provided program management, design and development services to GSA since 2010 under the SAM Architecture and Operations Contract Services contract.

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“During IBM’s eight years of performance on the SAM-AOCS contract… they have repeatedly delivered good performance and  have improved over time,” GSA said. “IBM has gained the most technical knowledge of IAE systems among any source in the marketplace.”

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GSA aims to retire the legacy SAM and FPDS websites in fiscal year 2020.