Agencies can now purchase the strongest standard encryption products and services at the best price because of the awards today of 10 blanket purchase agreements under the SmartBuy governmentwide procurement vehicle.
The Office of Management and Budget, Defense Department and General Services Administration awarded the BPAs to protect sensitive, unclassified data on government laptop computers, other mobile computing devices and removable storage media devices.
The federal government will save as much as $73 million through cost avoidance during the agreements and has the potential to accelerate standard data security on mobile devices. Over five years, the BPAs could result in contract values exceeding $79 million.
The winners are MTM Technologies, Rocky Mountain Ram, Carahsoft Technology, Spectrum Systems, SafeNet, Hi-Tech Services, Autonomic Resources, GovBuys, Intelligent Decisions and Merlin International. One other vendor that was a candidate for an award did not complete all requirements at this time.
The awardees will provide these products:
Mobile Armor’s Data Armor.
Safeboot’s Safeboot Device Encryption.
Information Security’s Secret Agent.
SafeNet’s SafeNet ProtectDrive.
Encryption Solutions’ SkyLOCK At-Rest.
Spyrus’ Talisman/DS Data Security Suite WinMagic’s SecureDoc.
Credant Technologies’ CredantMobile Guardian.
GuardianEdge Technologies’ GuardianEdge.
Agencies may begin to purchase encryption services for data at rest through the BPAs immediately. The agreements were selected under DOD’s Enterprise Software Initiative and GSA’s governmentwide SmartBuy program.
DOD ESI and the Air Force’s 754th Electronic Systems Group at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Ala., will provide acquisition and contract support for the awards and administer the contracts. GSA’s SmartBuy will provide all acquisition support for civilian agencies, including state and local governments.
The collaboration of several agencies to quickly establish such agreements that cross federal, state and local governments is a huge win, said Dave Wennergren, DOD’s deputy chief information officer.
“I think it will raise the bar for security for everybody,” he said during a teleconference to announce the awards.
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