OPM awards $149M cyber, network operations support contract

Bering Straits Professional Services has won a potential five-year, $149 million contract for broad cybersecurity infrastructure and network operations support services to the federal government’s main human resources agency.

The Office of Personnel Management is looking to further modernize its overall IT environment by leaning more heavily on cloud-based technologies and a zero trust approach to security.

OPM awarded the so-called ECIOSS contract on New Year’s Eve and received 13 proposals in total, according to Federal Procurement Data System records. ECIOSS is the shorthand for Enterprise Cyber, Infrastructure, and Network Operations Support Services.

ECIOSS is structured to be the agency’s focal point for cyber incident response, forensic investigation, network and server troubleshooting, investigation and response, server and endpoint updating, router and domain name management, support, and coordination.

Solicitation documents first issued in June describe how OPM sought to combine both cyber and network services for this new contract as part of efforts to roll out a more common approach.

That work is currently split up into two separate contracts held by Bering Global Solutions LLCI and KaiYuh Information Technologies.  Like its predecessors, the new contract was reserved for 8(a) small businesses.

Bering Straits Professional Services will be responsible for helping resource OPM’s functions in incident investigation, incident handling, network, server, and application fault monitoring, utilization, availability, problem tracking/escalation, problem reporting, and documentation in an agile environment.

BSPS is owned by the Bering Straits Native Corporation, which is an Alaska Native Corporation.