Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: January 21, 2025
The Department of the Treasury has awarded 10 companies positions on an eight-year, $20 billion blanket purchase agreement to provide enterprisewide cybersecurity support services for the department, its bureaus and related offices.
The department’s Internal Revenue Service disclosed the selected vendors for the PROviding Treasury Enterprise Cybersecurity Technology and Services, or PROTECTS, BPA through award notices published Friday on the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation.
The awardees are:
1CyberForce
Delviom
Electrosoft Services
Maveris
Obsidian Global
Pueo Business Solutions
PUNCH Cyber
ShorePoint
Valiant Solutions
Zermount
IRS launched a full-and-open competition and received 28 offers for the BPA.
The ordering period will run through January 2033.
What Is PROTECTS BPA?
In addition to enterprisewide cybersecurity services, the PROTECTS BPA under the General Services Administration’s Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services, or HACS, special item number seeks to meet the unique cyber needs of departmental offices and individual bureaus within the Treasury, including the Bureau of Fiscal Service, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and U.S. Mint.
According to a draft performance work statement, the BPA has a 12-month base term and seven optional years.
The PROTECTS program has six functional areas: management and control; information security incident management; vulnerability management; adversary and advanced operations; security operations center, or SOC architecture, engineering deployment and management; and SOC support activities.
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