Omnibus IV Presolicitation Notice Amendment 1

Pre-solicitation Notice: On-Ramp for the Department of Defense OMNIBUS IV Multiple-Award Contract Notice ID: HT942626R0002
Amendment 01: The first amendment to this pre-solicitation notice is to extend the anticipated posting of the solicitation. Guidance pertaining to the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul was recently issued for the Department of Defense (DoD) to be adopted starting 01 February 2026. Additional time is needed to ensure the solicitation remains in compliance with the FAR Overhaul guidance. This is a pre-solicitation notice to synopsize the intention of the Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity (DHACA) to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for an on-ramp to the OMNIBUS IV Multiple Award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle covering military medical research and development services. This notice is not a request for proposals and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. The OMNIBUS IV contract vehicle was awarded under full and open competition in June 2022 with a base ordering period of 20 June 2022 through 19 June 2027 and an Option Ordering Period of 20 June 2027 – 19 June 2032. The cumulative ceiling of this existing IDIQ contract vehicle is $10 billion. To date, the accumulated awarded task order value is over $600 million across 51 task orders (including future unexercised option periods). Task Orders have been issued by a growing number of end users including DHACA, the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (now integrated into DHACA), the Naval Supply Systems Command, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. When excluding the task orders simply providing a minimum guarantee to the existing Contract Holders, 51 task orders have been issued off this contract vehicle with 8 task orders being set aside for the 8(a) Program and 9 task orders being awarded to an 8(a) Participant. 33 task orders have been awarded so far to small businesses under this contract vehicle. Of the 51 task orders, 94% were awarded during the Government's Fiscal Years 2024 - 2026, and the amount of competitive task orders has grown each fiscal year. This on-ramp is intended to expand the pool of eligible contractors to support the ongoing and future needs of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) medical research and development programs. Task orders set aside for the 8(a) Program under this contract vehicle are required to be competitive. The FAR Overhaul removes the requirement for Contract Holders under an unrestricted contract vehicle to recertify their size and status for task order requirements set aside for small businesses. As a result, Contract Holders can rely on their size/status representation at the IDIQ level when proposing for task order requirements set aside for small business concerns even if they have graduated out of the 8(a) Program or have grown out of being a small business since their most recent size/status representation at the IDIQ level. Contract Holders will still be held to the requirement to recertify their size/status at the IDIQ level within 60 – 120 days prior to the end of the fifth year in accordance with FAR 19.301-2(b)(1)(iii)(A). Starting in August 2026Between 19 February 2027 and 20 April 2027 (60 – 120 days prior to the end of the fifth year), only one existing Contract Holder is anticipated to still have representation of the 8(a) Program. be registered within the 8(a) Program. In accordance with FAR 19.301-2(b)(2)(i), Contractors who represented its status as any of the small business concerns before award of an unrestricted multiple-award contract are required to re-represent their size and status for orders set aside exclusively for a small business concern.