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Homeland Security

CSC Wins $489M TSA IT Contract, Again

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded CSC [CSC] a five-year, $489 million contract for the deployment, maintenance and enhancement of the agency's information technology (IT) infrastructure capabilities. CSC originally won the contract last fall, unseating incumbent Unisys [UIS], but a subsequent protest was sustained by the Government Accountability Office, which required TSA to reopen the procurement. A TSA spokeswoman says that the agency evaluated proposals from companies and made a decision based on the "best value proposal for TSA's…

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