By Ross Wilkers,
Senior Staff Reporter

This is for the full-and-open portion of a contract vehicle used to acquire research-and-development services for global space, missile defense and high-altitude missions.

The Army has released the draft solicitation for the second part of the next iteration of a contract the service branch uses to acquire broad research-and-development services from industry.

The new Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration II Domain 1 program will be a full-and-open exercise and have a $2.57 billion ceiling to be shared among all awardees for the full 10-year duration.

Responses to the D3I2 Domain 1 draft request for proposals are due April 15, the Army said in a Sam.gov notice Tuesday.

The release of that draft RFP follows the Army’s move in January to unveil the final solicitation for the small business track known as D3I2 Domain 2, which will have a $2.05 billion ceiling over up to 10 years.

Both portions of the contract are recompetes from the current iteration that was awarded in 2016. For the Domain 1 recompete, the Army anticipates it will make up to five awards.

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