*The Army has awarded contracts to five companies under the Automatic Identification Technology (AIT)-IV program worth a potential nine-year, $418.5 million combined. The recipients under the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity award are: GTSI Corp. [GTSI]; Intermec Technologies Corp.; Northrop Grumman [NOC], CDO Technologies, Inc.; and Lowry Holding Company, Inc. The contract has a three-year base period, two one-year options for ordering products, services and maintenance, and one four-year option for maintenance only. The objectives of AIT-IV are to provide a state-of-the-art common, integrated structure for logistics tracking, locating, and monitoring of assets and processes. The contract includes software and hardware such as barcodes and barcode readers, unique item identifiers, printers and other items. The contract was awarded by the Army Product Manager for Joint-Automatic Identification Technology and consolidates a single award ID/IQ contract previously held by Intermec into a multi-vendor one.
*The Transportation Security Administration has awarded Jupiter Corp. a potential five-month, $2.1 million contract to continue providing adjudication services to the Office of Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing pending the resolution of a contract protest filed Jupiter in June after it lost in a bid to continue providing those services to the agency. The contract extension has a one month base period, which began on July 23, and four one-month options.