The Department of Treasury plans to launch a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) contract to source and streamline cybersecurity services across the agency.
According to a draft contract document released on Wednesday, the PROviding Treasury Enterprise Cybersecurity Technology & Services (PROTECTS) contract will focus on supporting the department’s security operations centers (SOC) functions with core services like architecture, engineering, deployment, and management, incident management, vulnerability management, and more.
The PROTECTS contract will “help furnish the best cybersecurity services possible to Treasury, Treasury Bureaus and those Federal government agencies who depend on Treasury for their financial management,” the draft states.
Work produced under the contract will fall into two models: on-premises support of government-led operations and work led by a managed service provider.
The department also emphasized that under this eight-year BPA, it will be able to “adapt and transform SOC operations and operating models across Treasury and its Bureaus to improve capabilities, consistency, and economies of scale across the Treasury enterprise cybersecurity and SOC functions while reducing enterprise cybersecurity risks including new, emerging, or evolving cyber threats.”
Under the PROTECTS contract, bureaus and offices from across the department, including the IRS, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and others, will have access to the array of cyber services.
“This BPA has the capability to address all mission-critical requirements for each Bureau, thereby replacing the many diverse contract vehicles across Treasury and eliminating the multiple types of service contracts,” the draft states.
Currently, the Treasury Department wants feedback from interested parties on the proposed PROTECTS contract and is accepting comments and questions through Nov. 1.
The department did not include the value of the contract in the draft documents.
