The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security intends to launch a competition for the second iteration of a contract to provide information technology architecture and engineering support services.
USCIS expects the Architecture Engineering Services 2 contract to have a ceiling value of over $100 million and anticipates release of a solicitation for the proposed requirement by March 8, according to a notice published Tuesday on the Acquisition Planning Forecast System.
Support services include cloud engineering and DevSecOps; platform and network engineering; network security; WAN-router-switch-cloud optimization; distributed processing and hosting; automation and orchestration; device management; performance and capacity planning; technical assessment center and compliance and image lab; and unified communications.
Work will be performed in the Washington, D.C. area, and South Burlington, Vermont, with an expected completion date of Nov. 30, 2029, according to APFS.
USCIS expects to award the contract through the Alliant 2 vehicle by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024.
The incumbent contractor is ManTech, which secured the potential $86 million contract in August 2021.
