GSA adds security services to schedules

The General Services Administration added four new services to its schedules contracts Jan. 16 as the agency pushes ahead with efforts to meet agencies’ security convergence needs, officials said today.

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Convergence is more than buzz

General Services Administration officials say they are looking for ways to support security convergence through the agency’s existing contract schedules.

Rob Rhode, marketing director at USIS, a security vendor, sat down with several GSA officials in a private room off the floor of a security industry trade show in March in Las Vegas. Rhode told them agencies were starting to combine their security operations into a single, cohesive infrastructure, and they needed help with what he called security convergence.

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Converging security needs create new market for GSA

A growing federal market for separate but related security demands has led the General Services Administration to concoct ways to offer the wide-ranging requirements in a single package.

To minimize vulnerabilities, agencies are rethinking their purchasing strategies and starting a new trend in buying security services. Their different security features, such as cameras, security guards and information technology platforms, need to interact. For example, security guard services and IT need to be on the same playing field.

Attempting to order and then connect these services as one is called security convergence.

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