our new 12 Vendorsi think this is the biggest part from this news release, could these be some of the current 12 vendors
The Homeland Security Department's goal of consolidating procurement vehicles across its panoply of agencies came closer as the department chose 11 vendors to receive contracts under the First Source procurement for commodity IT gear.
The 11 companies will compete for First Source task orders that could amount to $3 billion over as long as five years. The contracts run for two years with the potential for three one-year extensions.
The following companies gained First Source contracts, according to the FedBizOpps government procurement portal:
- All Points Logistics Inc. of Titusville, Fla.
- Computer World Services Corp. of Washington
- EG Solutions LLC, Reston, Va.
- Government Acquisitions, Inc., Cincinnati
- GovPlace of Irvine, Calif.
- iGov of McLean, Va.
- MultimaxArray FirstSource of Greenbelt, Md.
- NCS Technologies Inc. of Manassas, Va.
- Net Direct Systems LLC of Apex, N.C.
- Solutions LLC of Reston, Va.
- ST Net-Apptis FirstSource Joint Venture of Chantilly, Va.
- WildFlower International Ltd. of Santa Fe, N.M.
The First Source contract winners are set to provide commodity products such as PCs, servers, monitors and the like.