DHS kicks its network, cloud and cyber consolidation vehicle down the road
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Ross Wilkers
Industry will have an undetermined amount of extra time to gear up for this contract to centralize IT operations across the entire Homeland Security Department.
The Homeland Security Department is working on a new timeline for its planned contract to bundle network security, cloud computing and cybersecurity services requirements into a single mechanism.
DHS previously eyed late November as its deadline to make awards for the Network Operations Security Center Network, Cloud, and Cyber Services 2.0 contract. Oct. 1 was the intended date to release the final solicitation, while bids for the two-phase evaluation process would have been respectively due on Oct. 6 (today) and Oct. 21.
Now the department is revising its anticipated schedule for NCCS 2.0 to a later timeframe and industry should monitor Sam.gov for further updates, DHS said in a Monday notice to that portal.
DHS is setting up NCCS 2.0 contract as a centralized contract for acquiring IT service management support across the department’s network infrastructure, cloud and platform services, and cybersecurity functions.
The department currently acquires those services on more of a component-level basis and instead wants a single structure over its entire IT environment.
Leidos, General Dynamics and Peraton are among the companies holding various pieces of legacy contracts being folded into NCCS 2.0. Leidos currently performs the core network security operations center services under a short-term bridge order.