United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), an independent civilian agency, procures contracts for facility operations, collections management, educational programming, and institutional information-technology infrastructure to support its mandate as the nation's official memorial to the Holocaust.

USHMM has awarded 129 federal contracts since 1997, with combined potential value of $377 thousand and combined dollars obligated of $4.9 million across 58 distinct prime contractors. Contract activity peaked in 2014–2015 (11 and 12 awards respectively) but has been dormant since the most recent award closed on March 9, 2016—ten years and seven months before today. No recent contract awards are recorded against the agency. The portfolio is highly fragmented competitively, with no single prime contractor dominating; the vast majority of awards (95 awards) carry no set-aside designation, while five percent are small-business set-asides and one is an 8(a) sole-source award.

USHMM is conducting formal market research to evaluate commercial vendor capabilities and acquisition vehicles for a comprehensive managed information-technology security procurement. A Request for Information (RFI) titled USHMM-RFI-2027-MSSP (Solicitation 95476727RFI-MSSP) was posted October 1, 2026, with responses due October 30, 2026. The RFI seeks to benchmark commercial pricing, federal and commercial labor rates, and available contract vehicles (including GSA MAS, NASA SEWP, and CIO-SP3/4) for managed IT security, multi-cloud and DevSecOps architecture, network engineering, and managed security service provider operational activities. The stated objective is to evaluate whether competitive marketplace capabilities exist to sustain current security infrastructure without disruption, perform rigorous security architecture evaluations and compliance assessments against NIST and CISA standards, architect a modernized zero-trust security state incorporating automated orchestration and a Government Owned Contractor Operated security operations center, and execute transition to the modernized model within schedule and budget constraints. This RFI is market research only and does not constitute a binding solicitation; no obligation to acquire is stated.

The agency's contract portfolio is inactive on the award side but signals renewed procurement intent in IT security and infrastructure modernization. Vendors interested in USHMM's IT security footprint should respond to the RFI and monitor for downstream RFP or IFB issuance.

A living memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the Memorial Museum was built on donated federal land and is funded through private donations.