Unisys has won a contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to compete for task orders under the Centralised Operations, Maintenance and Management Information Technology (COMMIT) contract.
Under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, Unisys will compete to provide information technology operations and maintenance services to support the IT systems FEMA relies upon to respond to crisis situations such as natural disasters or acts of terrorism.
According to Unisys, which is one of five companies won a COMMIT IDIQ contract, it will compete for task orders to provide a range of services to FEMA, including end user support; applications and network operations support; software configuration; software sustainment; hardware installation, maintenance, and operations support; and technology refresh for FEMA network assets.
Unisys claims that the contract, ceiled at $500m over five years, supports FEMA to modernise its Information Technology division and enhance its ability to field IT services supporting the systems used to manage its emergency response efforts, public alert process, asset visibility, finances and other aspects of its mission.
Martin Mackes, partner of homeland security at Unisys Federal Systems, said: This contract will give FEMA an efficient and flexible vehicle to obtain support services for the systems it needs to conduct its critical mission.
