IT Firms Vie for Federal Awards Worth $20 Billion
By
John Pulley
The contracts are primarily with NIH and its parent agency, HHS.
A total of 54 companies are eligible to compete for up to $20 billion in information technology and health IT products and services, primarily for the National Institutes of Health and its parent agency, the Health and Human Services Department. NIH is the executive agent.
The Chief Information Officers - Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) contract is known as a governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC). The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts cover a 10-year period, according to the award notice posted at FedBizOpps.gov.
Awardees include Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., CACI Enterprise Solutions Inc., Computer Sciences Corp., Deloitte Consulting, Delta Solutions and Technologies Inc., Dell Services Federal Government Inc., General Dynamics Information Technology Inc., Harris IT Services Corp., IBM Corp., Lockheed Martin Services Inc., Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Science Applications International Corp. and Unisys Corp.
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