Contract vehicles act as pre-established agreements between government agencies, commercial businesses, and the vendors that provide services and products to them.

Think of it like this – a contract vehicle is a license to offer IT Services and products for vendors to sell to their customers. The contract vehicle carries in its trunk all of the services and products you wish to sell to your customers almost like ordering off of a menu in a restaurant. It’s a permit that allows you to sell to large organizations that want competitive and pricing for similar services. It also gives agencies a defined list of products, services and prices to choose from. In this metaphor, the only real difference between the types of contract vehicles is the number of companies that have the license and the number of options on the menu.

There are many types of contract vehicles such as IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity), GWACs (Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts), GSA Schedules, BPAs (Blanket Purchase Agreements), and MATOCs (Multiple Award Task Order Contracts), Sole Source awards for certain business classifications