ARMY ITES 2S (IBM)

Background

ARMY STRATEGIC VISION, MISSION AND GOALS AND OBJECTIVES Through the effective, efficient, and economic application of information technology solutions, the ITES acquisition will support the Army’s strategic vision, mission, goals, and objectives. The Army strategic vision, mission, goals flow down through all levels of the Army enterprise from the Army-wide vision to the Army key IT organizations to the Statement of Objectives for the ITES acquisition itself.

ITES-2S Scope

The ITES-2S scope will include a full range of services and solutions necessary for the Army to satisfy its support of the Army enterprise infrastructure and infostructure goals with information technology (IT) services worldwide. The scope includes the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Information Management (C4IM) requirements as defined in Army Regulation 25-1 (AR 25-1).
ITES-2S contemplates services-based solutions under which contractors may be required to provide a full range of IT equipment. Therefore, end-to-end solutions to satisfy worldwide development, deployment, operation, maintenance, and sustainment requirements are included. Additionally included is support to analyze requirements, develop and implement recommended solutions, and operate and maintain legacy systems, and equipment. It is the intention of the Government to establish a scope that is broad, sufficiently flexible to satisfy requirements that may change over the period of performance, and fully comprehensive so as to embrace the full complement of services that relate to IT.
The U.S. Army, Department of Defense, or any Federal Agency will be authorized to fulfill requirements under ITES-2S.