8(a) STARS III

Contract Number:  47QTCB21D0417

Paratus Solutions LLC is part of a winning joint venture, Bold & Reliance Technology Services LLC on the 4th generation Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) through the General Services Administration (GSA) for IT services provided by 8(a) small disadvantaged companies  called 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III (STARS III) .  The contract award includes the primary scope area of IT Services along with the focused sub scope area of Emerging Technology - Focused IT Services.

The Master Contract scope provides Federal agencies with customized IT services and IT services-based solutions, both commercial and non-commercial, as defined in the Clinger-Cohen Act and FAR 2.101. Customized IT services-based solutions can be tailored to meet an agency’s particular mission needs and may include new and emerging technologies that evolve over the life of the Master Contract. The principal nature of any resulting Order must be for IT services; however ancillary support may be included when it is integral to and necessary for the IT services-based effort. Services may be performed at Government and/or Contractor locations worldwide, as specified in each Order.

Examples of work to be performed relative to Order requirements include the following. These examples are not meant to be all-inclusive, but rather general indications of the types of services within a given IT services-based solution. Other services not listed as examples, but which adhere to the definition of IT, are within scope and may be provided to meet an agency’s particular mission needs.

(1) Data Management
(2) Information and Communications Technology 

(3) IT Operations and Maintenance
(4) IT Security / IT workforce augmentation
(5) Software Development
(6) Systems Design

Scope Sub-Area 1: Emerging Technology-Focused IT Services

This sub-area provides for IT services-based solutions which involve emerging technology (ET) innovation to securely accelerate transformation and advance mission outcomes. A TOR fits 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 solutioning 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 TOR the business problems they face, e.g. through the use of a statement of objective approach.

ET activities include, but are not limited to:

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

Illustrative ET examples include but are not limited to:

1. Artificial Intelligence (including Machine Learning, Deep Learning/Neural Networks, Natural Language Generation)
2. Autonomic Computing
3. Blockchain / Distributed Ledger
4. Quantum Computing
5. RoboticProcessAutomation
6. Technological Convergence
7. Virtual Reality (including Augmented Reality, Extended Reality, Mixed Reality)

The primary North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for the Master Contract is designated as 541512, Computer Systems Design Services. Requirements that align with other IT services NAICS codes are within the scope of the STARS III GWAC. These NAICS codes include, but are not limited to 541511, 541513, 541519, 518210.

Jin Kim

Founder and President - Paratus Solutions

Member - Bold & Reliance Technology Services LLC Joint Venture

240-242-9715

jkim@paratusolutions.com