1DOT Digital Services (DS) BPA

1DOT Digital Services (DS) is the U.S. Department of Transportation's next-generation, department-wide vehicle for digital services and software engineering. It consolidates modernization, development, enhancement, and sustainment work across the Office of the Secretary (OST) and every Operating Administration under a single multi-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).

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1DOT DS is the successor to Software Engineering Services (SWES). Since the original SWES BPAs launched in March 2020, 15 incumbents have executed 125 orders worth more than $752 million. Now DOT is expanding the model department-wide — two pools, 21 task areas, and work that reaches from enterprise shared services down to individual mission programs.

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If your firm delivers software engineering, cloud, data, AI, or O+M to the federal government, 1DOT DS is a vehicle to track closely.

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1DOT Sigital Services BPA - A $1.9B Contract. Eight Years. Get Ready Now.

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Contract Overview

1DOT DS is a multi-award BPA that covers the full lifecycle of digital services across DOT — Development, Modernization, and Enhancement (DME) plus Operations and Maintenance (O+M) — delivered at three scales: enterprise (shared services), cross-modal (multiple administrations), and modal (a specific program or mission).

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DOT plans a two-pool structure: a Small Business Pool and an Unrestricted Pool, both issued against the GSA Multiple Award Schedule under SIN 54151S. The BPA aligns to DOT's IT Strategic Plan and is built to push reusable, "code once, use often" delivery across the department rather than one-off builds per administration.

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For firms that hold the right GSA Schedule and SIN, this is one of the larger digital services opportunities in the civilian space — and the incumbent base is already known, which makes the recompete window worth planning around now.

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Recent Updates

The RFI was released on July 3, with responses due on July 23. DOT is asking industry to shape the PWS, the pool structure, and how they'll evaluate offers. That's the whole ballgame.

Respond now and you do two things. You put your capabilities on DOT's radar before source selection starts. And you get a real shot at influencing the requirements you'll compete against later.

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Contract Details

Solicitation #: RFI1821181
Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (DOT-wide use)
Status: Pre-RFP
Contract Ceiling: $1B-$1.9B
Contract Type: Multi-Award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)
Period of Performance: 8 years from the effective date (no option periods; orders may extend up to 2 years beyond the BPA's end)
Competition Type: Two-pool structure — Small Business Pool + Unrestricted Pool, under a "Small Business First" ordering strategy
Number of Awards: Multi-award, TBD — pool sizes not yet published
NAICS: 541511, issued under GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), SIN 54151S
Solicitation Expected: August 1, 2026
Award Target: Q2 FY2027
Place of Performance: DOT — Office of the Secretary (OST) and Operating Administrations (CONUS)

Functional Areas

The current PWS lays out 21 task areas covering the full digital services lifecycle. Coverage includes:

Software engineering and modern application development
Enterprise architecture and cross-modal delivery
Low-code / no-code platforms (Power Platform, Salesforce, Appian, ServiceNow)
DevSecOps, developer experience, and internal developer platforms
AI-augmented software engineering and autonomous/semi-autonomous agents
AI/ML product lifecycle (research through sustainment, MLOps, monitoring)
Data engineering, data-as-a-product, and data governance
Analytics, BI, GIS, and geospatial / transportation-related analysis
Cloud modernization and FinOps
Site Reliability Engineering, O&M, and observability
Application-level cybersecurity and software supply chain security
Human-centered design (HCD)
Program/project management and multi-vendor collaboration
Training

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Critical Insights for 1DOT Bidders

You need the GSA Schedule to play. The BPA is issued against GSA MAS, SIN 54151S. If you don't hold the right schedule and SIN, that's the first gap to close — starting now.

The incumbent base is known. SWES 2.0 didn't disappear; it got renamed and expanded to DOT-wide. A 125-order, $752M+ track record tells you what's already flowing through this vehicle — and what the recompete is worth.

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