VA awards $12 billion umbrella technology contract to 14 companies

The Veterans Affairs Department on Thursday awarded 14 contracts, potentially worth $12 billion, to transform VA's information technology. Department officials evaluated more than 90 bids for the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology procurement, which was issued in April 2010.

VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said in a statement that the contract, known as T4, "will help VA transform into a 21st century organization and enable us to deliver the high-quality health care, benefits and services veterans have earned."

The 14 companies will compete for work under the five-year indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity multiple task order contract, VA said. The T4 contracts provide a broad range of information technology and telecommunication services, including program management; systems and software engineering; enterprise network, test and evaluation; independent verification and validation; cybersecurity; operation and maintenance services; training; and IT facility support.

Winning bidders include:

-- Booz Allen Hamilton

-- CACI-ISS Inc.

-- Harris Corp.

-- Systems Research and Applications Corp.

-- Creative Computing Solutions Inc.

-- HP Enterprise Services LLC

-- ASM Research Inc.

-- Systems Made Simple Inc.

-- Firstview Federal TS

-- Information Innovators Inc.

-- 7 Delta Inc.

-- By Light

-- Technatomy Corp.

-- Adams Communications and Engineering Technology Inc.