The $75 million task order is one of the first under the $50 billion COMET BPA.

The agency is modernizing its point-of-sale system and also put out the long-awaited fleet modernization task order.

Homeland Security also employed a new bid process to select the winner, an IT modernization firm.

Executives from eight of the 11 winning firms put their competitive differences aside to pen a letter to DHS Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa.