Saturday, May 24, 2025
Saturday, May 24, 2025
The Army has put the final solicitation for the modern software delivery indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract on hold to "re-examine the strategy," according to the program office.
The contract, worth billions over 10 years, is meant to enable the Defense Department to “build functionality, implement and extend the capabilities” of the Army when it comes to modernizing rapid development and delivery of software capabilities, according to the solicitation.
The IDIQ is meant to efficiently award task orders to support “software capability efforts” in areas such as software development, security and operations (DevSecOps), as well as software delivery using “modern architectures, infrastructure and platforms.”
The solicitation was released in May 2024, a couple months after the Army issued a new policy aimed at cutting through red tape when it comes to making software development more agile and lean.
On Feb. 18, the Army updated the software IDIQ to note that it is “on hold indefinitely” because the Army was “reviewing the strategy.”
The Program Executive Office for Enterprise, in response to questions from Inside Defense about the update, wrote in a Feb. 21 statement that the office “placed the Modern Software Delivery IDIQ final solicitation on hold to re-examine the strategy.”
“A notice was issued on SAM.gov on Tuesday, Feb. 18, to inform industry of this decision. We appreciate the work and engagement with our industry partners over the last few months and will provide an update on SAM.gov as appropriate,” the office said.
“Requirements continue to evolve, and we want to ensure any solicitation we issue yields the best possible solution.”
The announcement comes the same week the Pentagon announced it is developing a $50 billion list of “offsets” to cut from the fiscal year 2026 budget to reinvest in other priorities of the Trump administration. It was not immediately clear whether the software contract is among areas that could experience cuts.