DHS moves on awards for $640M technical services pact

The Homeland Security Department has started to make awards on a new five-year, $640 million blanket purchase agreement for technical and related professional services to help manage DHS’ IT programs.

DHS set up this second iteration of its Architecture, Development, and Platform Technical Services BPA to aid in efforts at migrating business applications away from unsupported platforms. The idea is to instead base those apps on reusable services, such as cloud computing and other shared environments.

DHS made four awards on Friday and those winners are as follows:

• Ernst & Young
• Everforth ECS, formerly known as ECS Federal
• NetCentric Technology, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal
• Zolon-PCS joint venture

Given the nature of BPAs, DHS could name additional awardees and we will update the list of winners accordingly. The department received 19 proposals for ADaPTS 2.0 and set up the pact as a small business set-aside, according to Sam.gov records.

A sources sought notice from February 2024 describes how DHS sought to hire a group of technical support providers across requirements for cloud computing services, enterprise application development and delivery, and platform management.

Winners will also compete for task orders to perform work in areas such as requirements management, system integration, performance and compliance monitoring, and operations and maintenance.

DHS awarded ADaPTS 2.0 via the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedules program.

ADaPTS 1.0’s incumbents Blackstone Technology, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM and TechFlow were ineligible for the recompete given its set-aside structure.