SBA 8(a) Sole Source Process
The Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) business development program enables Federal Government agencies to contract directly with certified 8(a) contractors. The 8(a) sole source vehicle provides agencies a simplified and shortened acquisition procedure. Digital Strategy, LLC is a certified SBA 8(a) program participant through July 17, 2030.
SBA 8(a) Program Benefits
The 8(a) sole source vehicle provides agencies a simplified and shortened acquisition procedure:
» Reduced decision cycle
- The time required to award contract is usually within days
» Lowered administrative costs
- Procurement process and time is reduced to a minimum
» Prices reflecting the best value
- Agency negotiates with the firm directly to get the best value
» Credit for promoting small business participation within agency
» Can initiate a contract with a simple high-level statement of work
How To Award a Streamlined SBA 8(a) Sole Source Contract
- Discuss program with Digital Strategy and establish program requirements and timeframe/schedule.
- Contact your Contracting Officer (CO), Agency Small Business Specialist or Digital Strategy's SBA Business Opportunity Specialist for assistance.
- The CO will send an Offering Letter to the SBA requesting permission to conduct sole source negotiations with Digital Strategy LLC.
- The SBA confirms eligibility of Digital Strategy and authorizes the negotiations.
- The CO negotiates with Digital Strategy LLC.
- Upon completion of negotiations, CO prepares a contract award document and sends to Digital Strategy for signature.
- Upon receipt of the executed contract from Digital Strategy, the CO signs the contract and sends it to the SBA.
- Contract performance begins.
Optimally, this entire acquisition process could be two weeks or less in duration.
NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI
Digital Strategy LLC is an awarded contractor under NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) in Category C – IT Mission-Based Services.
About NASA SEWP
The NASA SEWP (Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement), pronounced "soup", provides the latest Information Technology, Communication, and Audio-Visual (ITC/AV) solutions and services for all Federal Agencies and their approved contractors. Created in 1993, SEWP I was the first Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) in the federal acquisition space. Originally, the contract vehicle provided only technology products for NASA and all other agencies. SEWP has continually evolved over the past 30 years, expanding its scope to meet the requests of its customers. The SEWP vehicle represents acquisition innovation within the Federal Government. The program is self-funded through usage fees (0.34%) and provides all Federal agencies with acquisition support - more than 50,000 orders a year.
CATEGORY C: MISSION-BASED ITC/AV SERVICE SOLUTIONS
Category C provides mission-focused ITC/AV services supporting specific agency programs, systems, and operational requirements. These solutions deliver the specialized technical expertise needed to develop, implement, operate, maintain, and enhance mission capabilities, from software and data services to cybersecurity, cloud networks, and IT operations. Services include the following core competencies:
- Innovation Services: Evaluate, prototype, engineer, integrate, and implement emerging technologies, AI/ML, automation, and advanced solutions addressing mission-specific requirements.
- Information and Data Analytics Services (IDAS): Deliver data engineering, integration, governance, analytics, visualization, business intelligence, and AI/ML solutions supporting mission decisions and operations.
- Application Services / Software Development: Develop, modernize, integrate, test, deploy, and sustain mission software using Agile, DevSecOps, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native development.
- Cybersecurity Services: Engineer/operate mission cybersecurity capabilities spanning Zero Trust, RMF, ICAM, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, SIEM/SOAR, and cyber defense.
- Cloud Services: Implement, migrate, administer, secure, and optimize cloud and hybrid environments, platforms, applications, and workloads supporting mission systems.
- Digital Multimedia and Technical Communications Services: Develop and support audiovisual systems, digital content, technical documentation, collaboration capabilities, and mission communications.
- IT Operations and Maintenance / Help Desk / Call Center Support: Operate and sustain mission IT systems, infrastructure, facilities, and end-user services through O&M, service desk, help desk, and call center support.
- Network Services: Engineer, deploy, configure, secure, monitor, troubleshoot, and sustain LAN/WAN, wireless, telecommunications, and mission network environments.
- Database Services: Design, develop, administer, migrate, integrate, secure, tune, and sustain relational. Cloud, and mission database environments.
- In-Scope Training: Develop and deliver technical, operational, system, and user training aligned to mission technologies, applications, and ITC/AV solutions.
- Program Management / Ancillary Services: Provide program management, IT consulting, technical coordination, scheduling, performance oversight, and ancillary support necessary to execute mission IT requirements.
SEWP Program Fee – A 0.34% Agency Administrative Handling Fee applies to all SEWP VI orders. This fee is included in Digital Strategy LLC quoted prices and is not listed as a separate line item on quotes or orders. The fee supports NASA’s administration of the SEWP program. No additional action is required from the ordering agency.
FAIR OPPORTUNITY
Orders issued under NASA SEWP VI are subject to the Fair Opportunity procedures as prescribed by FAR 16.505(b). FAR 16.505(b) requires that each contractor be given a fair opportunity to be considered for orders exceeding the micro-purchase threshold issued under multiple-award contracts. Under SEWP VI, all Contract Holders within an applicable individual category must be considered.
Contracting Officers have broad discretion in developing appropriate order placement procedures and must document the basis for award decisions as required by the FAR. The NASA SEWP Quote Request Tool (QRT) is the recommended mechanism for conducting this activity and supporting associated acquisition and decision documentation.
NASA SEWP VI: https://www.sewp.nasa.gov/sewpvi/
Program Manager (PM) Deputy Program Manager (DPM)
Minesh Patel Puja Bisht
Phone: 301-433-2473 Phone: 240-713-0295
Email: mpatel@ds-llc.com Email: pbisht@ds-llc.com
Contract Number – Category C: 80TECH26D0955
Period of Performance: 11/1/2026-10/31/2036
How to Contact SEWP
SEWP PMO Hours: Mon-Fri, 7:30 AM – 6 PM (ET)
Email: help@sewp.nasa.gov
Customer Help Desk: (301) 286-1478
Website: www.sewp.nasa.gov