The Defense Information Systems Agency has tapped a Vienna, Virginia, small business contractor to help its ongoing work with the National Background Investigations System.

HGSNet LLC, a small disadvantaged business, won the firm-fixed-price contract to develop, deploy and sustain the NBIS, a security clearance IT system that DISA has been working to build since 2016, following the Office of Personnel Management hack.

The 18-month contract calls for a number of services — including software engineering, systems integration, infrastructure engineering as well as development, security and operations (DevSecOps) services — and has a funding ceiling of $21,932,725 spread across a one-year base period, plus a six-month option.

That work could proceed through Feb. 5, 2021, if the option is exercised, as Defense officials continue to work on the standup of the NIBS system, which is not expected until fiscal 2020.

The system is intended to serve as the sole IT system to manage the background…