Six small businesses have filed protests involving a five-year, $450 million Homeland Security Department contract for business, program management and other enterprise support services.

The Customs and Border Protection agency is issuing the contracts as multiple blanket purchase agreements across two tracks – IT services and enterprise application development. CBP is calling this set of contracts the Enterprise Small Business BPAs.

Awards have not been publicly announced yet but give the expected timeline, DHS has either made awards or is on the verge of doing so.

Six companies filed protests at the Government Accountability Office on Sept. 11. Details are sparse but if awards have been made, these companies are likely challenging the evaluation process.

The protesters are:

• Alpha Omega Integration
• Arch Systems
• AttainX
• Constellation
• Garud Technology Services
• Simon Computing Inc.