OPG_FY26_Post-Quantum Cryptography And Federal Identity Management Support Services (PQC)
Past Exercise of Option Updated
- Solicitation expected
- Not on record
- Estimated value
- $1,000,000 to $1,900,000
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Forecast facts
- Anticipated award
- Acquisition strategy
- Full and Open Competition
- NAICS code
- Not on record
- Forecast number
- 47865
- Points of contact
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- Joyce Barbour joyce.barbour@gsa.gov
Forecast details come from the GSA Acquisition Gateway. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
The General Services Administration's Office of Government-wide Policy is procuring post-quantum cryptography and federal identity management support services to address the urgent threat that cryptographically relevant quantum computers pose to federal identity systems, including Personal Identity Verification credentials, Public Key Infrastructure certificates, and physical and logical access control systems. The contract will support GSA's coordination of government-wide civilian agency implementation of Identity Credential and Access Management policies and standards aligned with the Federal Identity Credential and Access Management Architecture. The estimated solicitation release date is 2099-09-09, with an estimated award date of 2026-06-30.
This is a delivery order under full and open competition with a firm fixed-price contract type. The estimated award value ranges from one million dollars to one million nine hundred thousand dollars, with a basic exercised value of one million three hundred twenty-four thousand two hundred twenty-two dollars. Joyce Barbour (joyce.barbour@gsa.gov) at the General Services Administration serves as the point of contact for this acquisition.
Forecast text
The General Services Administration's (GSA) Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP) Federal Identity and Cybersecurity Division coordinates the government-wide civilian agency execution of identity credential and access management (ICAM) policies and standards. In this role GSA steers the implementation of ICAM to align with the Federal Identity Credential and Access Management (FICAM) Architecture updating governance guidance synthesizing data from agency ICAM programs and coordinating the federal government's interactions with external organizations to promote consistent ICAM strategy and practices across agencies. The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant and urgent threat to the cryptographic foundations that underpin federal identity systems. A cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) once realized will have the capability to break widely used asymmetric cryptographic algorithms; including those currently used to protect Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates and physical and logical access control systems across the federal government. Adversaries are already conducting harvest-now decrypt-later attacks capturing encrypted federal data today with the intent to decrypt it once quantum computing capabilities mature.
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