Communications Technical Support Services (CTSS III) Bridge Extension

Background
The Communications Technical Support Services (CTSS III) contract supports U.S. Air Force personnel providing communications at bases in Southwest Asia (SWA), aiding over 10,000 joint services military personnel and coalition forces.

This modification serves as a justification for extending the ordering period of the existing contract to ensure continuity of mission-critical communications capabilities during the transition to CTSS V.

Work Details
The CTSS III contract provides essential communication capabilities including:

- Telephone switch operations and maintenance (O&M)
- Commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) O&M
- Technical control facility O&M
- Network administration/installation O&M
- High frequency/ultra-high frequency/very high frequency ground radio O&M
- Commercial, tactical, and defense red switch O&M
- Inside/outside cable plant support
- Cable TV support services
- Communications security management
- Communications planning and engineering
- Video teleconference technical services
- Military SATCOM O&M

The extension will allow AFCENT to continue these critical services under the CTSS III IDIQ and its associated task orders.

Period of Performance
The ordering period is extended for seven months from September 10, 2023 until April 9, 2024. This includes an initial four-month bridge from September 10, 2023 to January 9, 2024 and an optional three-month extension from January 10, 2024 to April 9, 2024.

Place of Performance
The contract will be performed at various U.S. Air Force bases in Southwest Asia including but not limited to locations in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

Bidder Requirements
No specific bidder requirements are mentioned in the justification document.

Incumbent Analysis (see Incumbents section for more detail)
This opportunity appears to have a confirmed incumbent, General Dynamics Information Technology, under HC102815D0007 (CTSS III) with a total value of $793,090,329 and multiple related CTSS III contract awards. The prior work includes mission-critical communications technical support and O&M—such as SATCOM/telecom support, radio frequency transmission systems, cable/antenna systems, communications engineering/planning, and communications security—performed primarily in the USCENTCOM area of responsibility with the majority of effort in Southwest Asia. The current “CTSS III Bridge Extension” similarly seeks continuity of these same communications capabilities at SWA bases during a transition to CTSS V, indicating it is likely a continuation/bridge of the existing CTSS III ordering period.