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Homeland Security

TSA Releases RFP For Next Tranche Of Checkpoint CT Purchases

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

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TSA Releases RFP For Next Tranche Of Checkpoint CT Purchases

Smiths Detection's HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX checkpoint scanner for carry-on bags. Photo: Smiths Detection

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Tuesday issued a solicitation for the next round of purchases of its advanced carry-on baggage scanners for airport checkpoints to include enhanced screening lanes. The Request for Proposals (RFP) for the checkpoint computed tomography (CT) systems comes about a year after initial deployments of the first 300 CT scanners began under a $97 million contract with Smiths Detection awarded in spring 2019. Deployments under that award were delayed due to a protest by a…

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