...$2.6 billion combined over a period of up to five years, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced on August 23rd. The companies will provide end-to-end managed network services under the Future Comsatcom Services Acquisition (FCSA) program, which is administered jointly by the GSA and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The indefinite-quantity, indefinite-delivery contracts were awarded under the full and open competition portion of the Custom Satcom Solutions, or CS2, component of the FCSA program.

The companies now eligible to compete for FCSA CS2 work, to be awarded in the form of task orders, are: SES Government Solutions of McLean, Virginia; Artel LLC of Reston, Virginia; DRS Technical Services of Reston, Virginia; Hughes Network Systems LLC of Germantown, Maryland; Intelsat General Corp. of Bethesda, Maryland; Segovia Inc. of Herndon, Virginia; TeleCommunication Systems Inc. of Annapolis Maryland; and Vizada Inc. of Rockville, Maryland.