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For general questions, contact:
8(a) STARS III GWAC Customer/Client
Phone: 877-327-8732
E-mail: S3@gsa.gov
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Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts or GWACs are task order or delivery order contracts for information technology established by one agency for governmentwide use. Each GWAC is operated by an Executive Agent designated by the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to Section 5112(e) of the Clinger-Cohen Act, 40 U.S.C. 1412.
For more information on GWACs, visit the GSA Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) website. |
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8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services (STARS) III |
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8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services (STARS) III - Emerging Technology-Focused IT Services This scope sub-area provides for IT services-based solutions which involve emerging technology (ET) innovation to securely accelerate transformation and advance mission outcomes. A task order requirement can fit in this sub-area if it includes IT services-based solutions with ET as the focus.
ET can be understood as evolving state-of-the-art information technologies and their use in solutions 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 in the task order requirement the business problems they face, e.g. through the use of a statement of objective approach. ET activities include, but are not limited to:
(1) Analyzing, designing and applying the knowledge needed to investigate and provide an ET solution.
(2) Providing technical expertise and guidance to plan, conduct, technically direct, document, test and assess ET implementations, including operating and sustaining ET implementations.
(3) Analyzing the trade-off of implementing vs. not implementing ET, including cost-benefit analysis.
Illustrative ET examples include but are not limited to:
(1) Artificial Intelligence, including: Machine Learning, Deep Learning/Neural Networks, Natural Language Generation.
(2) Autonomic Computing.
(3) Blockchain and/or Distributed Ledger
(4) Quantum Computing.
(5) Robotic Process Automation.
(6) Technological Convergence.
(7) Virtual Reality, including: Augmented Reality, Extended Reality, Mixed Reality. |
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