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TSA procurement envisions 900,000 TWIC cards per year

As the TWIC card enrollment phase arrives at one U.S. seaport after another (Los Angeles/Long Beach were scheduled to begin on December 12, while Peoria and Joliet, IL; Memphis, TN; and Buffalo, NY, are expected to commence later this month), the need for the materials to manufacture the cards themselves continues apace.

Yesterday, the Transportation Security Administration, which is responsible for TWIC (officially known as the Transportation Worker Identification Credential), issued a presolicitation notice for enough clear and holographic laminate material to produce 900,000 cards per year in each of the next five years, for a total potential volume of 4.5 million TWIC cards.

The laminate material will be delivered in rolls to the TWIC card manufacturing facility located in Corbin, KY, a small town in the congressional district of Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), the former chairman of the homeland security subcommittee of the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

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