The Department of Homeland Security plans to release a solicitation in January for a follow-on, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to operate a federally funded research and development center focused on systems engineering.
According to a notice published Thursday on the Acquisition Planning Forecast System, the recompete IDIQ contract for the management of the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, or HSSEDI, FFRDC has an estimated value of over $100 million.
MITRE, the incumbent contractor on the HSSEDI operation contract, has been running the facility since 2009. In 2020, the DHS Science and Technology Directorate moved to extend the nonprofit corporation’s operation of HSSEDI.
DHS expects to award the recompete contract by the second quarter of fiscal year 2025.
Contract work is expected to occur in McLean, Virginia, through March 23, 2035.
What Is HSSEDI?
Established through the Homeland Security Act of 2002, HSSEDI provides technical and systems engineering expertise for DHS program managers and components and helps address homeland security-related development issues.
The seven focus areas of HSSEDI are acquisition planning and development, emerging threats, concept exploration, experimentation and evaluation, information technology and communications, cyber solutions/operations, systems engineering, system architecture and integration, technical quality and performance and independent test and evaluation.
The program objectives of the institute are achieved through the recommendation of new technologies and development of prototypes and proof-of-concept demonstrations, among others.
