GSA awards agile IT BPA

The General Services Administration and its 18F innovation unit announced 16 awards under the first round of a new Blanket Purchase Agreement for agile software development services. Nine of the awards were to small businesses.

The time from solicitation to award was a relatively quick 70 days.

The BPA aimed to identify “agile, user-centered” software developers who can quickly develop prototypes, survey users and use open source code, GSA said.

The small business awardees were:

• Applied Information Sciences Inc.
• DSoft Technology Company
• Flexion Inc.
• NCI Information Systems Inc.
• SemanticBits
• TechFlow Inc.
• TeraLogics LLC
• Three Wire Systems LLC, and
• Ventera Corporation.

More info: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/243495

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