CBP exposes contractor trade secrets in surveillance project

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http://gcn.com/articles/2012/04/06/cbp-exposes-contractor-trade-secrets.aspx

By Kevin McCaney
GCN.com
April 06, 2012

Customs and Border Protection blocked access to a contracting Web page, 
and later moved its location, after it had inadvertently posted 
documents containing commercial trade secrets as part of a solicitation 
for a video surveillance project on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.

In addition to blocking further access to the documents, CBP is asking 
anyone who downloaded the two documents in question to delete or destroy 
them, according to a notice posted to FedBizOps.

The website where the documents were posted is a password-protected site 
for authorized users, so CBP has a list of anyone who has accessed, 
viewed or downloaded the documents. CBP’s notice said it would directly 
contact those individuals, asking them to delete their copies and to 
confirm in writing that they’ve gotten rid of them.

The documents, which CBP said “may contain information considered to be 
commercial/trade secret information,” were posted to a Virtual Reading 
Room as part of a new solicitation for a remote video surveillance 
system for the Southwestern border of the U.S. The solicitation was 
posted in February.

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