USCIS chooses 5 for agile development pact
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Ross Wilkers
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency set up this blanket purchase agreement to support its cloud computing migration efforts and scale out operational capacity.
Five companies have won positions on a potential five-year blanket purchase agreement to work with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency on implementing more agile software development practices across the enterprise.
Known as RIVER, the Resources for Innovation and Enterprise Readiness pact was set up to support USCIS’ ongoing cloud computing migration efforts and help scale the agency’s operational capacity.
USCIS awarded the seats on Aug. 12 and Aug. 13. Nine small businesses turned in proposals for this set-aside procurement, according to Federal Procurement Data System records.
Award and ceiling details from FPDS are as follows:
- Bridgephase, $88.5 million
- FusionEdge Solutions, $71.1 million
- KYC Advisors, $82.9 million
- Stella joint venture, $58.6 million
- Red Cedar Harmonia, $73.7 million
USCIS previously called the pact RAPID, short for Rapid Application and Product Integrated Delivery, in the original request for information from February 2023.
That sources sought notice lays out USCIS’ goals of reducing its reliance on systems considered legacy, increasing its usage of the DevSecOps practice for security in software development, and leaning into a multi-vendor environment.
RIVER’s primary task areas include new solution development and delivery, operations and maintenance, DevSecOps engineering support, innovation, analytics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Work will take place for one initial base year and up to four individual option years.