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SEWP Contract Guide
Feds Satiate Hunger for SEWP
NASA’s Contract Juggernaut Continues to Deliver Fast, Easy, High-Performing Procurement.
Technological innovation has soared since NASA’s Solutions for Enterprisewide Procurement (SEWP) revolutionized the way federal agencies acquire information technology. Yet in 1993, the
year SEWP became the first governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC), the tech revolution was still using training wheels: the Mosaic browser was released that year; the
administration of then-President Bill Clinton put the White House online and started the .gov domain; and future Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg turned 9.
Today, cloud-based services are easily accessible, live streaming is fast becoming ubiquitous, and artificial intelligence applications are entering the mainstream. SEWP has changed, as well. Throughout the contract’s
five iterations, it has continued to expand, adding products, services and customers. Yet the twin pillars of its foundation endure: a commitment to working closely with partners across industry and government; and ensuring that “ease of use” informs the experience of SEWP’s customers.
“With each iteration we get a
little bit better and include more things,” said Theresa Kinney, SEWP’s
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