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 requirements.” The award is a few million dollars less than when the IT Infrastructure Protection (ITIP) contract was first announced last September (TR2, Sept. 30, 2009). The ITIP contract augments TSA’s ability to protect its IT network from cyber threats and ensures that the agency has the IT infrastructure to support computing and communications hardware, software and related services. The award was competed among contractors on the Department of Homeland Security EAGLE contract.