DHS' cyber agency awards $500M digital transformation support pact
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Ross Wilkers
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency sought to hire a group of contractors for help in service delivery to its components and a more rapid approach for technology testing and evaluation.
The Homeland Security Department’s lead cyber agency has awarded four positions on a potential five-year, $500 million blanket purchase agreement for broad digital transformation support services.
AttainX, Electrosoft, SiloSmashers and a Softek-FEDITC joint venture called SOFITC3 will compete for task orders to work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency under this pact that aims to provide CISA help in its governance and delivery posture regarding enterprise IT.
CISA awarded the Digital Transformation Support BPA on Tuesday and received 37 bids in total, according to Federal Procurement Data System records. This competition was reserved for woman-owned small businesses.
A March 2023 statement of work outlines CISA’s goals for the BPA as including efforts to establish a baseline of delivering services to CISA components, adopt new methods for rapid technology testing and evaluation, and carry out enterprise IT management practices.
The BPA has an initial one-year base period followed by up to four option years.
Given that BPAs sometimes have staggered awards, we will update the article to include more winners if and when they are added.
Awardees will compete for task orders across the following areas:
- Contract management
- Core infrastructure support
- Digital solution development and automation support
- Enterprise data management and analytics support
- Maturity and automation support for the DevSecOps software practice
- Operations and sustainment
- Service and experience design support
- Transformation strategy and enablement