Advantages

Strong Technical Team — The SAIC SeaPort-e team is an experienced team with strong insights on Federal Agency needs, industry best practices, and state-of-the-art technologies. As the lead, SAIC's Defense Solutions Group has achieved an organization-wide Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) Maturity Level 5 rating, the highest possible rating for benchmarking commercial and defense industry best practices for management and engineering.

Cost Effectiveness — A flexible contract with low administrative costs, utilizing a web-based, e-business procurement portal for increased efficiency and reduced cycle time.

Broad scope — Provides engineering, technical and programmatic support services that potentially span the entire spectrum of mission areas supported by the Virtual SYSCOM.

Flexibility — A five-year base period $12.855 billion (U.S.) contract ceiling and two five-year award term periods with ceilings of $15.093 billion and $17.460 billion. Task orders are Cost-Reimbursement (CR), or Fixed Price (FP). Use of contractor teams and subcontractors is encouraged.

Quick Turnaround — Highly streamlined task order process.

Small Business Activity — SAIC is a strong advocate of small business involvement in their contracts. New small businesses can be involved as new task order RFPs are identified and reviewed for bid. SAIC's Small Business Office works with vendors to become part of the SAIC small business database and available for teaming on any SeaPort-e task order.