SES Space & Defense provides complete, customized, engineered Complex Commercial SATCOM Solutions (CS3) to meet customers’ unique satellite communications needs.
Contract Vehicles
Contract Vehicles Available to Government Customers:
- GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) – Contract Number GS-35F-0328V (valid through March 2024) – Download the GSA Schedule GS-35F-0328V
- GSA CS3 Contract (valid through October 15, 2022) – Download the CS3 Contract GS00Q17NRD4015
- GSA CS3 Customer Ordering Guide – Download the GSA SES Space & Defense CS3 Customer Ordering Guide
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SES Space & Defense provides complete, customized, engineered Complex Commercial SATCOM Solutions (CS3) to meet customers’ unique satellite communications needs.
Complex Commercial SATCOM Solutions (CS3)
What is CS3?Complex Commercial SATCOM Solutions allows federal agencies to build large, complex, custom satellite solutions. Solutions include satellite transport (bandwidth), fixed or mobile satellite service, and service-enabling components such as terminals, handsets, and tail circuits with engineering services to integrate, operate, and maintain the solution.
CS3 Contract Features:
Type of contract: Multiple award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ)
Period of performance: The CS3 period of performance is effective as of October 16, 2017. It has a 5-year base period of performance with one 3-year and one 2-year option periods.
Lineage: Incorporating lessons learned from the CS2 and CS2-SB contracts, the CS3 contract allows individual task orders to continue for up to five years past the basic contract expiration date.
Ceiling: $2.5 Billion
Emphasis: CS3 focuses on complex SATCOM solutions as opposed to end-to-end solutions while still providing access to the complete spectrum of COMSATCOM industry services.The CS3 vehicle offers the following comprehensive features:
- Cost savings by reduction of acquisition requirements for separate contracting organizations and improvement of customers’ bargaining power
- Pre-vetted industry partners that deliver vendor compliance to information assurance and protection requirements
- Flexibility to incorporate emerging technologies as they become available to the commercial marketplace
- Flexibility to address agency-unique needs
- Easy access to leading satellite technologies aligned with government parameters, interfaces, and standards
Benefits
CS3 is prepared for the Federal Government’s COMSATCOM requirements.
The CS3 vehicle provides solutions in support of multiple different types of requirements, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Interactive Services: the ability to connect multiple locations into a real-time two-way interactive network.
- Continuity of Operations (COOP): the pre-planned establishment and deployment of a backup or alternative communications infrastructure in anticipation that the normal, primary communications infrastructure is disabled due to natural or man-made hazard.
- Broadcast Satellite Services: the collection of voice, video, or data singularly or together into one central site and subsequent distribution of that information to multiple fixed or mobile locations.
- Fleet and Asset Tracking and Reporting Services: the ability for deployed equipment (e.g., sensors) to send real-time location and status information; also the ability to send messages or other data to fleet equipment or other assets.
- Emergency Responder Operations: the ability to establish or reconstitute a communications infrastructure in response to a natural or human-caused event that disrupts or destroys the normal, pre-existing communications infrastructure.
- Steady State Operations: the capability to provide complete, customized engineering solutions to support requirements which are generally long duration, sustaining base communications services and infrastructure to support enduring user requirements.
- Direct Customer Operations: the ability to create a satellite-based communications infrastructure to support specific customer operations.