The U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid (FSA) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to NortonLifeLock Inc. (DBA Symantec) for the continued provision of Symantec VeriSign Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates, maintenance, and support. The contract, valued at $252,813.00, has an ultimate completion date of December 10, 2017. The SSL certificates are used within the FSA environment to encrypt web-based data traffic and protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in accordance with applicable security standards. This is an existing requirement, and the contract was not set aside for any specific business category.