Lucky 13 win $1.5B DHS Agile software contract

Thirteen companies have won the Homeland Security Department’s $1.5 billion Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland contract, known as FLASH.

The winners are:

• Ad Hoc LLC
• EDC Consulting
• Emagine IT
• Excella Consulting
• Innovations Joint Venture
• Karsun Solutions
• LinkTec
• Navitas Business Consulting
• SemanticBits
• SimonComputing
• Soft Tech Consulting
• Solution Technology Systems
• Wexler Technical Solutions

FLASH was a result of a May 2012 Presidential Memorandum called Building a 21^st Century Digital Government, which led the federal CIO to release a strategy called the “Digital Government Building a 21stCentury Platform to Better Service the American People,” according to the procurement solicitation.

The CIO’s strategy provided agencies with a 12-month roadmap to enable a more efficient and coordinated digital service delivery. For the Homeland Security Department this meant adopting Agile software development methods to become quicker in its design, development and deployment of secure, critical services.

Specific services will include collaboration, code development, integration support, data migration, DevOps, configuration management, user training and metrics reporting, according to Deltek.

FLASH has a one-year base and two option years. The contract also has an on-ramping option to manage the recertification process and maintain a sufficient number of contract awardees.

The on-ramping option will also allow the Homeland Security Department to offer work to some of the other 101 companies that did not win spots on the FLASH contract, according to the contract award notice.

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