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STARS III Overview

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services (STARS) III, is an 8(a) set-aside Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) and OMB designated Best-in-Class (BIC) contract. It provides flexible access to customized IT solutions from exceptionally capable, SBA-certified 8(a) industry partners. STARS III enables federal agencies to buy total IT solutions while assisting with meeting or exceeding 8(a) socioeconomic utilization goals.

Contract Features Include:

  • $50B ceiling;
  • Directed task order awards up to $4.5M;
  • Limited protestability up to $10M;
  • Five-year ordering period with one three-year option period, performance can extend 5 years beyond the contract ordering end date;
  • Emerging Technology task areas; 
  • FFP, T&M, Labor Hour, and Hybrid contract types;
  • Pre-competed, easy-to-use with streamlined ordering procedures based on FAR 16.505;
  • Complimentary scope compatibility reviews.

Contract Scope

Requirements that align with NAICS 541511, 541512, 541513, 541519, and 518210 are within the scope of the STARS III GWAC. Examples of work to be performed relative to order requirements include, but are not limited to, the following:

Data Management

Data Management is the development, execution, and supervision of plans, policies, programs, and practices that control, protect, deliver, and enhance the value of data and information assets. Examples of Data Management services include, but are not limited to:

  • Cloud Computing Services,
  • Data Architecture,
  • Analysis and Design,
  • Data Governance,
  • Data Migration,
  • Data Quality Management,
  • Data Security Management,
  • Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Management,
  • Document, Record and Content Management,
  • Network and Individual Storage Management

IT Security / IT Workforce Augmentation

IT Security / IT Workforce Augmentation, often referred to as cyber security, is the body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access. Examples of IT Security services include but are not limited to:

  • Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation,
  • Continuous Security Monitoring Services,
  • Identity Management and Access Management,
  • Information Assurance,
  • Intrusion Detection,
  • IT Disaster Recovery Services,
  • IT Security Incident Response,
  • Network Security Monitoring,
  • Security Assessment Services, and
  • Vulnerability Analysis Services

Software Development

Software Development is the process of developing software through successive phases in an orderly way. This process includes not only the actual writing of code but also the preparation of requirements and objectives, the design of what is to be coded, and confirmation that what is developed has met objectives. All software development methodologies, including Agile, are supported. Examples of Software Development services include but are not limited to:

 

  •  Mobile Application Development Services
  •  Software Design
  •  Software Maintenance
  •  Software Programming
  •  Software Testing
  •  Web Development

Emerging IT Technology

Emerging Technology-Focused IT Services – This scope sub-area provides for IT services-based solutions which involve emerging technology (ET) innovation to securely accelerate transformation and advance mission outcomes. A task order requirement can fit in this sub-area if it includes IT services-based solutions with ET as the focus.

ET can be understood as evolving state-of-the-art information technologies and their use in solutions to improve and/or transform business processes and enhance mission delivery. ET includes those technologies that are not yet mature in the marketplace and have the potential for wide-spread adoption. These technologies are in the early stages of their life cycles and have been implemented by early adopters.

Rather than specifying predetermined technology solutions, agencies considering ET are encouraged to succinctly focus on articulating in the task order requirement the business problems they face, e.g. through the use of a statement of objective approach. ET activities include, but are not limited to:

Analyzing, designing and applying the knowledge needed to investigate and provide an ET solution.
Providing technical expertise and guidance to plan, conduct, technically direct, document, test and
assess ET implementations, including operating and sustaining ET implementations.
Analyzing the trade-off of implementing vs. not implementing ET, including cost-benefit analysis.

Illustrative ET examples include but are not limited to:

  • Artificial Intelligence, including:
  • Machine Learning,
  • Deep Learning/Neural Networks,
  • Natural Language Generation.
  • Autonomic Computing.
  • Blockchain and/or Distributed Ledger
  • Quantum Computing.
  • Robotic Process Automation.
  • Technological Convergence.
  • Virtual Reality, including Augmented Reality, Extended Reality, Mixed Reality.

STARS III Program details

akila vellingiri

STARS III Program Manager

akila@highqinc.com

Mobile: 925-4572149

UEI#: MCQGBSKRQ9C3

Contract #: 47QTCB22D0206

DUNS Number:  620872148

CAGE Code: 6LVJ8

GSA STARS III Website: www.gsa.gov/s3

Get started today! Contact us at STARS3@simpletechnology.io for further information.