Presolicitation
Large-Scale Fixed Systems (Multi-Energy Portal and Low-Energy Portal) Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contact
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
AI summaryPresolicitation: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans a five-year, multiple-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ: orders placed as needed over the contract term) contract for large fixed scanning systems, called Low-Energy Portal and Multi-Energy Portal systems, to replace aging systems at border crossings. Do not submit offers now. The formal request for proposal is expected in the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2027, with award planned in the second quarter of FY 2027. SAM.gov lists November 4, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern as the response date. More in the summary
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Presolicitation: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans a five-year, multiple-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ: orders placed as needed over the contract term) contract for large fixed scanning systems, called Low-Energy Portal and Multi-Energy Portal systems, to replace aging systems at border crossings. Do not submit offers now. The formal request for proposal is expected in the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2027, with award planned in the second quarter of FY 2027. SAM.gov lists November 4, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern as the response date.
How to submit: No offers accepted now; proposals go in response to the formal request for proposal, which is expected to be released in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 20, 2026.
- Worth checking: Equipment supply with installation and civil works. The work combines manufacturing or supplying large systems with site construction at many border locations, which is hard for a small business to do alone.
- Minor: Open to all sizes; no small business set-aside. The buy is full and open competition, so small businesses compete with large firms.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Supply two types of large fixed systems: Low-Energy Portal (LEP) and Multi-Energy Portal (MEP)
- Equipment, delivery, installation and civil works at the sites
- Image formatting so the images feed CBP systems, plus testing, verification and documentation
- Interconnectivity within all systems
- Lifecycle support, warranties and ancillary logistical services
- Replace existing systems of advanced age with modern technology giving better images, faster throughput and better threat detection
- Contract type
- Multiple-award IDIQ, five years, solicited under Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO, the rewrite of the federal buying rules) Part 15 negotiation procedures and RFO 12.201-2
- Period of performance
- Five years
- Place of performance
- Various locations throughout the U.S. and U.S. Territories
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 4, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- No offers accepted now; proposals go in response to the formal request for proposal, which is expected to be released in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027
Not in the notice text
- Evaluation method and factors
- Number of awards, contract ceiling and estimated value
- Quantities of each system and the specific sites
- Security or other eligibility requirements for the final request for proposal
- Exact date of the formal request for proposal; the notice gives only a fiscal-year quarter
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: No offers accepted now; proposals go in response to the formal request for proposal, which is expected to be released in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- Information Technology Contracting Division, Washington, DC
- Product/service code
- 6665 · Hazard-Detecting Instruments and Apparatus
- Business type
- Medical & healthcare (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 334517)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 20, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Expected Nov 4, 2026
- Oct 20, 2026 · PresolicitationExpected Nov 4, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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