The Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (MDA SHIELD) is a massive, multi-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle featuring a maximum ceiling of $151 billion across a 10-year period of performance. Designed as a flexible, enterprise-wide mechanism, it enables the MDA and broader Department of War entities to rapidly issue competitive task orders and bypass traditional procurement delays. PingWind has been selected as an awardee under MDA SHIELD, positioning the company to compete for task orders supporting the Pentagon's comprehensive U.S. homeland defense mission. With the MDA SHIELD award, PingWind expands its portfolio of government-wide acquisition vehicles and provides DoW customers another flexible, streamlined pathway to acquire agile engineering, prototyping, and advanced technology support in defense of the homeland.

SCOPE OF WORK 

Agile engineering, prototyping, sensor integration, software modernization, and command-and-control enhancements, in support of fielding advanced, multi-domain defenses against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missile, and cyber threats, supporting the Pentagon's comprehensive U.S. homeland defense and Golden Dome architecture.

FAIR OPPORTUNITY 

MDA SHIELD is a multiple-award IDIQ contract. Fair Opportunity applies to orders placed under multiple-award contracts in accordance with FAR 16.505(b). FAR 16.505(b)(1) provides that each contractor shall be given fair opportunity to be considered for each order exceeding $10,000 issued under multiple-award contracts. The FAR states that the method to obtain fair opportunity is at the discretion of the Contracting Officer (CO), who must document the rationale for placement and price of each order. Ordering agencies typically use a competitive task order RFQ process to assist in this activity and to augment the required decision documentation