Amendment 1 - This Amendment to the Solicitation is to provide the Government's Response to Questions received. Please see Attached Document "Government Solicitation QA - Final". Addiitonally, this Amendment provides an update to the Statement of Work. Only one minor revision was made to the SOW, which is indicated with tracked changes. The only revision made was to the last two parapgraphs of Section 2 of the SOW, as the original language conflicted with the Solictation instructions. Please see attached revised SOW Document "Trade Solutions Pilot SOW_06.27.25_FINAL". __________________________________________________ The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) is a Non- Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) based solicitation authority for acquiring innovative and commercial solutions. Section 880 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017 (Pub. L. 114-328) authorized DHS to implement a pilot program to competitively procure innovative commercial items, technologies, and services using CSO procedures. CSO is a new acquisition mechanism that provides a streamlined acquisition process and simplified contract terms that is designed to maximize efficiency and economy and minimize burden and administrative costs for both the Government and industry. The DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Acquisition (OA) will use the CSO procedures to acquire innovative, commercial items, technologies and services currently in the production/commercialization phase as well as adaptations of existing commercial products. The CSO procedures are described throughout sections 1, 3, and 4 of the attached General Solicitation document. This General Solicitation announcement invites prospective offerors to respond to the attached solicitation document. For purposes of this posting, “Innovative” is defined as follows: Any item that is— A new technology, process, or method as of the date of submission of a proposal; or A new application or adaptation of an existing technology, process, or method as of the date of submission of a proposal. The CSO solicitation process will include a multi-phased solicitation and evaluation approach: Phase 1 – Submission and Evaluation of the Written Solution Brief, which may also include optional an invitation for Oral Presentations/Technical Demonstrations, and Phase 2- Request for Full Proposal Submission. Potential submitters are hereby advised of the following: The solicitation for solution briefs is not a guarantee that award and obligation of funds will be made. The costs incurred by companies in the preparation and submission of their solution briefs in response to solicitations will not be paid by the government. Submission and proposals are evaluated on its individual merits rather than on a comparative basis, and the Government has considerable latitude in determining which of the submitted proposals it will fund. All potential recipients of CSO awards …