Eight vendors to provide services for $1b VA deal
Eight companies have been chosen by the Veterans Affairs Department to provide application maintenance services for its VistA electronic health records system.
Eight companies have been chosen by the Veterans Affairs Department to provide application maintenance services worth up to $1 billion for its VistA electronic health records system.
The Veterans Health Information Systems Technology and Architecture is in use in VA's 157 hospitals and 887 outpatient clinics.
Under the next-generation vehicle, VA will award task orders for continuity for the 20-year-old clinical and administrative system and for already active projects to modernize and transform the system under HealtheVet VistA.
The blanket purchasing agreement has a base period of five years and, with award term incentives, five additional one-year periods. VA has a goal to award 30 percent of its contract dollars to small and veteran-owned businesses.
The contractors chosen were EDS Corp. and Perot Systems Corp., both of Plano, Texas; Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego; CSSS.NET of Bellevue, Neb.; dNovus RDI of San Antonio; Merlin Technical of Englewood, Colo.; and Patriot Technologies Inc. of Frederick, Md.
Mary Mosquera is a staff writer for Washington Technology's affiliate publication, Government Computer News.