The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last month issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to acquire products and services for the continued implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD)-12.
The potential value of the pending Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract is $102.8 million over 10 years.
The competition for the new HSPD-12 ID/IQ contract will replace an existing five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement that DHS awarded to BearingPoint [BE], EDS Corp., which is now owned by Hewlett-Packard [HPQ], and XTec Inc. (HSR, March 5, 2008). XTec is the only company to receive task orders under the original contract, which had a $180 million ceiling value when it was awarded.
HSPD-12 is the policy for a common identification standard for federal employees and contractors. The required capability will provide HSPD-12 Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential issuance and management, management and tracking of identity and attribute information, integration with DHS personnel vetting process, interfacing with logical and physical access systems for applications enablement, information discovery and audit, data security and segmentation, system interfaces, public key infrastructure, and systems management.
“The DHS HSPD-12 program has been operational since 2009, and has successfully issued PIV cards to over 250,000 employees and contractors at facilities around the country,” Nicole Stickel, a DHS spokeswoman, tells HSR. “DHS issues PIV cards to eligible personnel during the on-boarding process, before they begin their work.”
According to the RFP, DHS plans to replace an estimated 161,924 cards and 116,172 cards respectively in 2013 and 2014. Under the new contract, the winning contractor will be expected to provide up to 400 biometric-enabled Enrollment and Issuance Workstations at no less than 300 DHS locations and be capable of issuing and managing at least 300,000 PIV cards.
DHS plans to host a pre-proposal conference on June 6 in Washington, D.C. Sol. No. HSHQDC-13-R-00047. Respond by July 1. Contact: Elizabeth Walsh, contract specialist, [email protected], 202-447-0197.