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Homeland Security

Next Generation Of DHS IT Acquisitions Will Use Multiple Contracting Vehicles

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 28th, 2019

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Next Generation Of DHS IT Acquisitions Will Use Multiple Contracting Vehicles

DHS Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa. Photo: DHS

The Department of Homeland Security is transitioning from its nearly 20-year-old approach to buying information technology (IT) services through a single multiple-award contracting vehicle to using multiple contract vehicles that are more targeted to specific capability portfolios while also taking advantage of existing government-wide acquisition contracts managed elsewhere. “EAGLE Next Gen will not be a single contract vehicle, but will instead be a suite of contract vehicles,” Soraya Correa, the chief procurement officer at DHS, said on a Feb. 27…

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