The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this month awarded support contracts to four companies — Analogic, Leidos [LDOS], Rohde & Schwarz (R&S), and Smiths Detection — to provide life-cycle support for each company’s transportation security equipment deployed by the agency at U.S. airports.
The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to Leidos is worth up to $115.8 million and for Smiths $70.8 million, TSA said in separate notices published on Sept. 12 in the federal government’s procurement site Sam.gov. Another notice, listing all for awardees, redacts the ceiling value of each of the Security Technology Support Services contracts.
Analogic supplies TSA with computed technology (CT)-based carry-on baggage scanners used at airport security checkpoints. This is the company’s first STSS contract with TSA.
Smiths Detection supplies the agency with CT scanners to screen carry-on and checked baggage, older Advanced Technology X-ray systems that are also used to scan carry-on bags at checkpoints, explosive trace detectors, and bottled liquid scanners. Leidos supplies CT scanners for checked baggage and body scanners, which TSA calls Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT). R&S provides a smaller number of AIT systems.
Leidos, R&S, and Smiths all have previous STSS contracts that expire this year.
The contracts cover system management, engineering, and information technology support and will also be applied to future security technologies that each company may sell to TSA.