CBP awards $900M IT, enterprise business support pact
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By
Ross Wilkers
Customs and Border Protection sought industry support for various aspects of its operations related to emerging tech and management of key programs.
Customs and Border Protection has awarded six positions on a potential five-year, $900 million blanket purchase agreement for broad IT and professional services in support of DHS’ enterprise business functions.
They will compete for task orders to work with CBP’s Office of Information Technology, Office of Field Operations and Office of Trade in running their programs and other initiatives that impact tech programs.
CBP awarded the Enterprise Business Management Support Services-2 pact on Monday and Tuesday. The agency received 30 bids in total for it, according to Federal Procurement Data System records.
FPDS lists these companies as winners:
- AnaVation
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- CGI Federal
- Deloitte
- IBM
- Steampunk
Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte keep their incumbent spots on the BPA, while the other four awardees are newcomers. Not on the list of winners is NTT Data’s federal subsidiary, which won their place on the current EBMSS BPA in 2018 alongside Deloitte.
CBP obligated $498.3 million in order volume against the first EBMSS pact with Deloitte the largest recipient of that spend at $357 million, or 71.6%. GovTribe data pegs Booz Allen’s share at $112 million and NTT Data Federal Services’ at $29 million.
A March 2023 notice on the recompete BPA outlines the agency’s areas of need as including strategic planning, risk assessment and mitigation, cost analysis, data management and analysis strategies, and senior program management.
Awardees will also have some responsibility for recommending ways of enhancing and supporting CBP’s emerging technology, data management, reporting and analytical capabilities.
CBP originally set up the EBMSS-2 competition to have two requirement tracks with one focused on professional services and a second area the agency called “Mission and Enterprise Integration,” which covered emerging technologies and proofs of concept.
Work under the new BPA will take place over one initial base year and up to four individual option years.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to include additional awardees on the EBMSS-2 BPA)