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Aug 2024: Carahsoft Technology Corp., Reston, Virginia (N66001-24-A-0056); TD Synnex, Greenville, South Carolina (N66001-24-A-0057); and EC America, Mclean, Virginia (N66001-24-A-0058), are awarded a multiple award, firm-fixed-price, blanket purchase agreement (BPA), with an estimated value of $848,400,000, using the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule. The Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative (DOD ESI) BPAs will provide Red Hat subscription software licenses for on-premises and cloud environments. Red Hat software products are required by the DOD to support warfighting operations and missions, protect against network vulnerabilities, ensure compatibility across network systems, and reduce costs. Additionally, Red Hat software products are required as the Linux operating system is used extensively on a range of workloads in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux editions are available for servers, mainframe, SAP applications, OpenStack platforms, desktops, data centers, and edge servers. These agreements are issued under DOD ESI in accordance with the policy and guidelines in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement Section 208.74. The ordering period will be for five years, base ordering period of three years and one option period of two years. No funds will be obligated at the time of award. Funds will be obligated as task orders are issued using primarily operations and maintenance funds. This contract was competitively procured via publication on the GSA E-Buy web site with 990 vendors solicited, three responses received, and three selected for award. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity.