The ENCORE II contract provides the user with a vehicle to acquire net-centric solutions, including network engineering, analysis and support for the acquisition, installation, fielding, training, operation and life-cycle management of components and systems in the operational environments of Combatant Commands and their subordinate components, the military services, Defense agencies, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and other Federal agencies.

This includes procurement of various products, including but not limited to, hardware, software and licenses, as applicable, when such products are incidental to the implementation of the solution.

Network analysis and support includes procurement of services necessary and incident to the protection of the client’s domains and systems to ensure continuity, viability while reducing vulnerabilities of the GIG.

Net-Centric solutions, services and support anticipated under the ENCORE II contract exist within the scope of the 20 task areas identified below:

* Task Area 1 - Enterprise IT Policy and Planning
* Task Area 2 - Integrated Solutions Management
* Task Area 3 - Performance Benchmarking
* Task Area 4 - Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
* Task Area 5 - Requirements Analysis
* Task Area 6 - Market Research and Prototyping
* Task Area 7 - Information and Knowledge Engineering
* Task Area 8 - Custom Application Development
* Task Area 9 - Product Integration
* Task Area 10 - Test and Evaluation (T&E)
* Task Area 11 - Asset Management
* Task Area 12 - Communications Engineering
* Task Area 13 - Security Engineering Certification and Accreditation
* Task Area 14 - Telecommunications Support
* Task Area 15 - Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI)
* Task Area 16 - Web Services
* Task Area 17 - Operations Support
* Task Area 18 – Hardware
* Task Area 19 – Software
* Task Area 20 – Managed Services