SETI is a contract vehicle that has a focused scope to provide new, noncommodity, and innovative information technology engineering solutions, embracing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for mission partners across the Department of Defense.
DISA performs critical missions supporting the entire Department of Defense. The rapid changes in technology and emergence of cyber as a warfighting domain create a strategic and operational imperative to transform through innovation. To be successful, the government needs a partner with not only an established track record of innovation to support the scale and complexity of DISA, but also a leading-edge firm that has and continues to transform and innovate as part of its DNA and business model.
Deloitte is the ideal partner for the government in accelerating the move to cloud. We understand the functions of DISA and are committed to cloud innovation, research and development through internal investments, industry and university partnerships, and a strong portfolio of teaming relationships that bring specialized knowledge in a variety of domains.
Systems Engineering, Technology & Innovation (SETI) Contract Vehicle Overview
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SETI is a contract vehicle that has a focused scope to provide new, noncommodity, and innovative information technology engineering solutions, embracing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for mission partners across the Department of Defense. SETI is an indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) vehicle designed for current complex and unique requirements, but also built to be technology-agnostic in order to solve capability gaps in all future mission needs.
SETI’s awardees were chosen based on the best-value, full trade-off acquisition approach, which enables the government to fully consider whether technical advantages merit paying a higher price. This strategy ensures that SETI performers have a proven innovative business culture, such that they have brought—and will bring—best-of-breed innovations and solutions to DISA customers.
SETI’s main focus is on fostering, developing, and encouraging innovation with the goal of reducing costs, streamlining timelines, and providing innovative solutions to the warfighter while simultaneously searching for breakthroughs, efficiencies, and advancements in IT engineering methodologies and technical development—which effectively manage the increased risk profiles inherent in solving complex capability gaps.
SETI provides a FAR-based, fair opportunity procurement approach for ordering critical performance-based services through DISA’s prequalified pool of innovative contractors. Users can pursue a variety of unique acquisition types, including, but not limited to rapid technology prototyping, staged contracts, milestone-based competitions, incentive prizes, and challenge-based acquisitions.
SETI’s full and open suite is open for business. The SETI SB Suite is expected to open in spring 2020.
SETI’s key task areas
What started SETI?
“Whenever the Warfighter is willing to pay more for above-threshold requirements or performance standards and may benefit from an innovative and technologically superior solution to meet their mission needs, a tradeoff source selection process between cost or price and noncost factors is optimal.”
– Frank Kendall, March 4, 2015, memo
What makes SETI unique?
SETI is a strategic sourcing tool that was structured and designed for:
Examples of approaches that may be considered targets for piloting or execution of requirements under SETI include:
SETI acquisition strategy
Best value trade-off was the right fit for SETI’s scope
Full and Open Competition Suite
Ordering period: July 12, 2019–July 11, 2029
14 large businesses
SBs may compete on any TO in the F&O suite
Small Business (SB) Competition Suite
Ordering period: Est. June 2020–June 2030
23 small businesses
All TOs first considered for SB set-aside
SETI performance task areas
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