Homeland Security has an opportunity called “Data Center Support Services” (the DCSS for short) which has a multitude of first-generation awardees currently in place for the DHS. The scope of this opportunity is to provide comprehensive information for the DCSS to the Customs and Border Patrol (or CBP) Office of Information Technology (OIT) in addition to Enterprise Operations, Enterprise Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, and Common Services. The planned support will cover the following offices: CBP Headquarter Offices in Washington, DC, CBP Data Centers, and in any location where CBP operates in the future. This opportunity is slated to be awarded to one single awardee, unlike the past awards involving five different awardees. IBM has over $46 million to date in obligated dollars on the 1st generation IDIQ.
Below is the list of all of the current incumbents for the DCSS as well as their contract identification numbers.
These are the five incumbents selected as awardees for DHS.
Homeland Security has totaled over $82 million on this program since mid-June, with the task orders going through the Schedule 70 program. The new opportunity will be a 10-year contract but the draft notice supporting documents detailed a 38-month base period with seven option years. The government may exercise an additional 6-month transition period as well.
The five companies selected as incumbents for the DHS in the chart above are the CSRA (SRA International), IBM (International Business Machines), Mythics INC., The Presido Corporation and Vencore Services and Solutions.
The listing below displays each optional period as well as the specific duration of each period.
Option Period 1 September 29th 2020 – September 28th 2021
Option Period 2 September 29th 2021 – September 28th 2022
Option Period 3 September 29th 2022 – September 28th 2023
Option Period 4 September 29th 2023 – September 28th 2024
Option Period 5 September 29th 2024 – September 28th 2025
Option Period 6 September 29th 2025 – September 28th 2026
Option Period 7 September 29th 2026 – September 28th 2026
The planned award date is set for July 31st 2017. The amount of the award is slated to be less than $100 million dollars. In summation, there are in total seven optional periods each with a duration of one year each.
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