STARS III

8(a) STARS III GWAC is a Best-in-Class Small Business set-aside contract that provides flexible access to customized IT solutions from a large, diverse pool of 8(a) industry partners. The 8(a) STARS III GWAC expands capabilities for emerging technologies, supports both outside of the continental United States (OCONUS) and CONUS requirements, features limited protestability up to $10M, and offers expert guidance from the GSA team, including free scope review services and market research. Changeis is at the forefront of emerging technologies, with projects that spans multiple disciplines, including autonomic computing, robotic process automation (RPA), and technological converges among others.

STARS III NAICS CODES

541512 – Computer Systems Design Services.

Requirements that align with other IT services NAICS codes are within scope. These NAICS codes include, but are not limited to:

541511- Custom Computer Programming Services
541513 – Computer Facilities Management Services
541519 – Other Computer Related Services
518210 – Computer Systems Design and Related Services

The Master Contract scope provides Federal agencies with customized IT services and IT services-based solutions, both commercial and non-commercial.
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.

Types of work to be performed include the following:

Data Management
Information and Communications Technology
IT Operations and Maintenance
IT Security / IT workforce augmentation
Software Development
Systems Design

Emerging technologies (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 business problems they face, (e.g., using a statement of objective approach).
ET activities include, but are not limited to:

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

Illustrative ET examples include but are not limited to: