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GSA Adds Four Cyber Security Services To IT Contract

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, September 12th, 2016

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GSA Adds Four Cyber Security Services To IT Contract

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To make it easier for government agencies to sort through potential cyber security services and to get work on contract more quickly, the General Services Administration (GSA) has added four separate cyber security services to the largest acquisition vehicle in the federal government.The new Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services Special Item Numbers (SINs) are penetration testing, incident response, cyber hunt, and risk and vulnerability assessment, GSA said on Monday.The SINs are part of the IT Schedule 70, which is also the…

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