Customer base.
Federal agencies seeking IT services from small businesses with set-aside qualification.
What's structurally distinctive about Polaris.
Four set-aside pools
8(a), HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, and Women-Owned. Each pool competes separately; awarded small businesses qualify per pool, not as a single award class.
IT-services scope
Pure IT services — cybersecurity, application development, infrastructure, data analytics. Excludes pure-product orders (those flow to SEWP).
Recompete dynamics
Small-business set-asides churn faster than unrestricted awards. Plan for awardees graduating out of size standards mid-period, opening replacement on-ramp slots.
Mentor-protégé teaming
Polaris primes often have established mentor-protégé arrangements with larger integrators. Allied vendors typically reach Polaris work via the protégé side of these arrangements.
Whether allied vendors can directly hold Polaris.
Allied vendors typically don't qualify for the small-business pools, but a US-domiciled small-business teaming partner often does.
How to get on Polaris.
Pool-by-pool solicitations have closed; on-ramps expected periodically.
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