{"id":87519,"date":"2010-02-09T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T09:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gsa-disa-set-to-issue-5-billion-fcsa-solicitation\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T09:13:53","slug":"gsa-disa-set-to-issue-5-billion-fcsa-solicitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gsa-disa-set-to-issue-5-billion-fcsa-solicitation\/","title":{"rendered":"GSA, DISA Set to Issue $5 Billion FCSA Solicitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-09-10] The <strong>U.S. General Services Administration<\/strong> (GSA) and the <strong>U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency<\/strong> (DISA) will issue the solicitation for the $5 billion, 10-year Future Commercial Satellite Communications Services Acquisition (FCSA) award Feb. 9, the GSA confirmed Feb. 8.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The multiple-award schedule and indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity FCSA, a joint venture between the GSA and DISA, is intended to replace satellite communications contracts that will expire over the next two-and-a-half years. FCSA is open to defense and civilian agencies as well as state, local and tribal governments; public schools and colleges; and public authorities. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The program was created in August after the two agencies announced they would combine the civilian and military commercial satellite acquisition vehicles into a one-stop shop.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Commercial Bandwidth Providers Address Military  Acquisition Policy Issues<\/b> \t\t \t\t\t&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 15, 2009<br \/>\n[12-15-09] Commercial satellite  industry representatives, developers, vendors and U.S. military  bandwidth providers, along with U.S. Defense Information Systems (DISA)  PEO and Satellite Director Bruce Bennett, will come together for\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Intelsat General Vice President: Military, Commercial  Relationship Has Developed<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 11, 2009<br \/>\nIntelsat General has been proactive in opening  a line of communication with the military to better understand their  needs in order to efficiently deliver solutions. Rarely has the company  missed an opportunity to make its presence known at the\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Xtar Vice President Discusses FCSA, Future Military  Bandwidth Acquisition Strategies<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 10, 2009<br \/>\n[11-10-09] For both commercial  satellite providers and their potential U.S. military customers, the  process of meeting the needs of the modern warfighter through commercial  networks has produced a long, frustrating and repetitive\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-09-10] The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will issue the solicitation for the $5 billion, 10-year Future Commercial Satellite Communications Services Acquisition (FCSA) award Feb. 9, the GSA confirmed Feb. 8. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The multiple-award schedule and indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity FCSA, a joint venture between the GSA and DISA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}