DHS EAGLE III moving ahead
The Department of Homeland Security is still analyzing exactly how the EAGLE II successor will gel, but the agency’s chief procurement officer remains committed to issue the new vehicle (or vehicles) by year's end.
The Department of Homeland Security remains committed to issuing the successor vehicle to its $22 billion IT services contract by the end of the calendar year.
Soraya Correa, DHS’ chief procurement officer, said the next iteration of the agency’s Security Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions II (known familiarly as EAGLE II), is still on track to be released by the end of 2018.
EAGLE II expires in 2020. The successor has been informally called EAGLE III.
The planned successor to EAGLE II was the Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland (FLASH) contract, but it was cancelled in June.
“We’re still analyzing the data and taking into consideration the best-in-class contract and other strategic sourcing vehicles [and] what the requirements are of our CIO community across the agency. I’m not going to write a contract for the sake of writing a contract,” Correa said in remarks at a Nov. 8 AFFIRM panel discussion.
“We have to be more efficient and effective in the use of our resources,” she added. “There are vehicles out there that can fulfill the majority of the need. We’re probably going to go to those and then focus on what are the unique needs of DHS.”