GSA taps XTec for managed service office contract
04 November, 2014
category: Government, Smart Cards
XTec was awarded a five-year HSPD-12 Shared Service Provider contract by the General Services Administration. The award is to support the GSA Managed Service Office that provides HSPD-12 credential enrollment, issuance, and management for more than 100 federal agencies under the USAccess program.
As the first GSA central issuance vendor in 2003, XTec is returning to work with GSA on HSPD-12 credential issuance. The company will supply its Enterprise AuthentX 5 Suite, for card issuance and lifecycle activities.
With this award XTec will now manage nearly 80% of all Executive Branch Agency Personal Identity Verification, PIV credentials.
Under USAccess, XTec will also serve as a foundational component to help agencies unite their logical and physical access control system implementation strategies.
In addition to agencies under the USAccess program such as the Department of Treasury, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture; XTec also provides HSPD-12 credentialing services for the Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, National Science Foundation, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Smithsonian Institution and Department of Labor. Related to HSPD-12, XTec provides physical and logical access control solutions and PIV-Interoperable credentialing.