ITES-SW2

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Definition

ITES-SW2 is the Army's enterprise software vehicle providing commercial software products, licenses, and maintenance to DoD agencies. Commercial software products, licenses, software maintenance, and related IT products for DoD. This contract vehicle is tied to Army and gives Bureauify users a stable navigation node for vehicle-specific searches.

Where this matters in federal contracting

ITES-SW2 describes a specific contract structure that the federal government uses. For example: Example: A 5-year IDIQ with task orders or a GSA Schedule purchase. The contract type controls risk allocation, payment timing, reporting cadence, and how performance is measured — all of which affect whether the work is profitable and whether it fits a contractor's capability profile. Knowing whether a solicitation is structured as a ITES-SW2 versus another vehicle is one of the first signals of how the government expects the work to be executed and what kind of contractor they're trying to attract. Misreading the contract type can mean either over-pricing risk you don't actually carry or under-pricing risk you do. The related terms above name the adjacent vehicles ITES-SW2 most commonly competes with or rolls up under.

Example

Example: A 5-year IDIQ with task orders or a GSA Schedule purchase.

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