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Homeland Security

Contract Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022

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Contract Awards

TSA Awards IBM Task Order Bridge for Screening Gateway Services The Transportation Security Administration has awarded IBM [[IBM] a potential one-year task order bridge to continue providing adaptive maintenance, application development and Tier III support for the Vetting and Credentialing System Screening Gateway. IBM is the incumbent for the work but in the spring of 2020 lost a recompete to AFS, LLC. IBM subsequently protested and TSA decided to take corrective action and at a minimum re-evaluate the proposals and…

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