ASRC Federal wins $495M background check support recompete
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Ross Wilkers
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency sticks with the incumbent for this iteration of the program, which emphasizes DCSA's transition to a continuous vetting approach.
ASRC Federal has won a five-year, $494.4 million contract to continue its intake support and other professional services to the Defense Department agency responsible for conducting background investigations on people seeking security clearances.
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency received three proposals for the Case Processing Operations Center 2.0 recompete, the Pentagon said in its Thursday awards digest.
DCSA uses the CPOC program to support its mission of conducting roughly 2 million background checks annually for 100 government agencies and roughly 10,000 cleared companies.
Solicitation documents first released in April describe how the agency is also using the new CPOC 2.0 contract to aid its transition to continuous vetting, an approach for near-real time monitoring of cleared federal employees and contractors.
ASRC Federal won the current iteration in 2020 to provide facility monitoring, program management and implementation support for DCSA amid its efforts at that time to set up its system for continuous vetting and adjudication.
CPOC 2.0 is set up as a non-personal contract with a scope of work covering telephone and switchboard services, application ingestion, case maintenance, item level processing and post-closing support.
DCSA structured new CPOC 2.0 contract under a hybrid firm-fixed-price and cost reimbursement, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity model.