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Contracts: AT&T wins $20 Million CBP networking task order

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), awarded AT&T Inc. a task order worth up to $20 million to provide voice networking solutions for the directorate. AT&T will serve as the primary network voice services provider to CBP for the task order, which was awarded via the General Services Administration's (GSA) Networx Universal program. Networx Universal is a 10-year, $20 billion contract vehicle that allows AT&T Government Solutions, a business unit within AT&T, and Networx contract holders to provide a full range of network and telecommunications services to federal government agencies. The CBP order has a four-year base with three two-year options. Under the terms of the order, AT&T will use its networking expertise to deliver voice networking solutions that will ensure reliable, secure communications for the agency's 47,000 employees based throughout the country.

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Catcher Holdings, Inc., of Leesburg, VA, announced it has received an initial contract to deploy its state of the art Catcher Rhino hardened mobile computing devices with multiple federal and state government agencies for homeland security related applications. This initial order, which comes to Catcher Holdings via one of the company's key value added resellers, is for 13 Catcher Rhino hardened mobile computing devices which will be deployed across nine federal and state governmental organizations for physical security assessment at potentially vulnerable homeland security locations. The Rhino is a ruggedized mobile computer with integrated GPS, voice, data, biometric capabilities and a suite of communications technologies.

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The Customs and Border Protection agency awarded a contract to Rescue Training Associates, Inc., of Pompano Beach, FL, to provide courses to train agents in "confined space entry." The four-year contract has a value of $864,000.

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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to award a sole source contract to F & J Specialty Products, of Ocala, FL, to acquire special emergency radiation detection equipment in collaboration with the Radiation and Indoor Environments National Laboratory. Currently, EPA has RadNet Deployable National Radiological Monitoring Stations (DNRMS) constructed to meet homeland security defense capabilities for radiological emergency response requirements. Under the National Response Plan (NRP) and other federally mandated regulations, EPA would be tasked as the coordination agency for specific radiological responses.

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The Department of Homeland Security announced it intends to issue a sole source contract to American National Standards Institute (ANSI) of New York City, to operate and maintain its Homeland Security Standards Database. ANSI will continue to maintain the Homeland Security Standards Panel and provide membership and participation on key ANSI policy committees and forums that help shape standards and conformity assessment policy within the U.S. and abroad.

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