CACI wins $1.8B contract to modernize CBP's back-office systems
CACI International has won a $1.8 billion contract to modernize the back-office IT systems of Customs and Border Protection.
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CACI International has inked a $1.9 billion contract with Customs and Border Protection to modernize many of its back office systems.
The company bested five other bidders to win CBP's Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading Edge IT, or BEAGLE, contract. The award was made on Nov. 5.
BEAGLE has a ceiling of $1.88 billion and will run through 2027, according to contracting documents posted to the Federal Procurement Data System. A LinkedIn page for a FedSIM executive describes the project as "enterprise-scale agile systems development and modernization."
A job posting from CACI states that CBP plans to use BEAGLE "to obtain greater integration, automation, innovation, cost savings, and efficiencies within its portfolio of applications using Agile-based methodologies, integrated testing and transformative processes to support current and future requirements."
The BEAGLE acquisition was managed through the General Services Administration's Federal Systems Integration and Management (FedSIM) assisted acquisition service. FedSIM tapped the GSA's Alliant 2 government wide acquisition contract as part of the procurement.
BEAGLE appears to be a successor to CBP's 2013 Border Enforcement Management Systems (BEMS) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with Unisys, for development, maintenance and functional enhancement of over than 100 software applications in the BEMS portfolio.
BEMS provided experts, senior-level IT specialists and subject matter experts to support CBP's Office of Information Technology's Border Enforcement and Management Systems Division (BEMSD).
That five-year-long contract had a $460 million ceiling and covered design, development, testing, implementation, training, and maintenance of back office CBP IT systems including operational offices, administrative office systems including its public website, core personnel and financial management systems, as well as applications that track and record border activity and seized property.
CBP and CACI have not responded to requests for comment.