The Department of Homeland Security has opened bidding on a five-year, $440.7 million multiple-award IDIQ contract (solicitation 70RDA126R00000001) to standardize procurement of biometric capture devices — fingerprint, facial, iris, palmprint and multimodal systems — across DHS components and other federal agencies including the Departments of State and Justice, Washington Technology reported.
The contract vehicle is intended to replace fragmented, one-off purchasing historically used by DHS’s Office of Biometric Identity Management. Proposals are due September 18, 2026.
Why it matters: A single large, standardized federal contract vehicle for biometric hardware procurement gives vendors a much larger and more predictable addressable market than the agency-by-agency purchasing it replaces, and is likely to influence which biometric hardware standards and interoperability requirements become de facto norms across other government biometric deployments.
Source: Washington Technology, September 11, 2026, corroborated by FedScoop and ID Tech Wire.
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