There could be other reasons for what might appear to be just an effort to stay under SAT as well.
Thanks to downsizing within the Government, my Acquisition team supports four distinctive customer bases. That's not four units within one organization, that's four different customers pursuing four different missions. They may, have the same or similar requirements come in at the same time. I will assign those requirements to the same Specialist. If you are looking at the award(s) then, it may appear that we have made the same procurement two or three times and may assume it was to keep costs down. In reality, each order is being shipped to different addresses with different funding, different area's of the country, etc. They were unrelated requirements.