ANSWER (Applications’n Support for Widely-diverse EndUser Requirements) - is a $25 Billion Multiple Award/ Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (MA/IDIQ) contract that provides IT solutions that deliver the best value and innovation to support client missions worldwide.  ANSWER provides clients with stability and continuity in the face of today’s highly volatile and rapidly changing technological environment.

On December 30, 1998, GSA awarded the ANSWER contracts worth $25 billion over a ten-year period.

ANSWER contracts are designed as a "gold standard" for IT services and were awarded to ten premier service providers:

• Anteon Corporation
• Booz Allen & Hamilton Corporation (BAH)
• Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
• Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Systems & Solutions LLC
• Information Systems Support Inc. (ISS) 
• ITS Corp. 
• L-3 Government Services Inc. (L-3 GSI)
• Northrop Grumman IT
• TASC, Inc.
• Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)

Designing, engineering and implementing IT to support technology challenges from the diverse specialties of agriculture to defense, from environment to medicine, and from nuclear energy to social security is what ANSWER addresses. Whether the requirement is for a new system to support the deployment of ground troops, homeland security or for a major enhancement to a modeling construct that predicts aberrant weather conditions, or as a decade long project to track the medical implications of a new virus, ANSWER is postured to provide the ultimate in customized IT support and solutions.