From: Washington Business Journal
A $6 billion cybersecurity program from the Homeland Security Department is capturing the attention of some of the Washington area’s largest systems integrators, indicating that this won’t be an opportunity reserved for the small cyber niche players.
Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp., Fairfax-based ManTech International Corp. and Science Applications International Corp. in McLean all confirmed to me their plans to bid as a prime contractor for DHS’ Continuous Monitoring as a Service program, which will be worth up to $6 billion over five years, according to the request for quotes first obtained by Federal News Radio.
Falls Church-based Computer Sciences Corp. would not officially say whether the company plans to submit a proposal, but cyber lead executive Sam Visner told me that CSC is “really interested,” describing the initiative as “a key opportunity out of DHS [that] will get a lot of attention here.”
This clarifies a bit the type of contractors that we could see populating the blanket purchase agreement, which will provide federal agencies and even state, local, tribal and territorial governments with information technology services and tools to defend computer networks from cybersecurity threats.
The RFQ breaks the requirements into two categories — one that focuses primarily on tools, and the other services. Even though the largest systems integrators often steer clear of contracts that focus a lot on product purchases, the dollar amount and the emphasis on diagnostics and active monitoring of computer networks seemed to have drawn them in.
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