DHS is Building a Contract to Manage All its Cybersecurity Operations Centers

The Homeland Security Department is building a contract vehicle of vendors able to manage its 17 unclassified Security Operations Centers, the cybersecurity hubs for the government’s central cybersecurity agency.

Its Request For Information outlines its tentative acquisition strategy, and asks for feedback from industry on capabilities and approach to spinning up additional resources in times of crisis, such as during a large-scale cyberattack.

The single contract will likely have multiple awardees, each capable of managing the entirety of operations at each of the department’s 17 SOCs. They are currently managed by contractors, with Homeland Security component offices generally acquiring their own services. The vehicle being contemplated in the RFI would centralize the pool of vendors and create a single set of core functions available to all SOCs.