The contract includes a five-year base term and five one-year options. The 29 companies selected for the contract will now be able to compete for work from agencies, although there’s no guarantee that they will win anything by being chosen yesterday.

The companies are: Accenture National Security Services; Advanced Management Technology; Alion Science and Technology; AT&T Government Solutions; BAE Systems Information Technology; BearingPoint; Booz Allen Hamilton; CACI; Computer Sciences; Dynamic Research; EDS; General Dynamics; Harris; Indus; IBM; ITS; L-3 Communications; Lockheed Martin; ManTech; Modern Technologies; NCI; QSS Group; Raytheon; RS Information Systems; SAIC; SI International; Systems Research and Applications; Northrop Grumman; and Unisys.

GSA plans to award a similar Alliant contract to small businesses later this year.