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  • CSRA Subsidiary Lands Spot Under $159M Medical Product Development IDIQ With NIAID - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Subsidiary Lands Spot Under $159M Medical Product Development IDIQ With NIAID

    CSRA‘s (NYSE: CSRA) DynPort Vaccine subsidiary has been awarded a spot on a potential 10-year, $159 million contract to handle various medical product development initiatives for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. DynPort will work to create manufacturing processes and analytical test methods, characterize and manufacture products and provide regulatory support for the […] More

  • PV Puvvada Chosen for Professional Services Council Board, Exec Committee, Civilian Agencies Panel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PV Puvvada Chosen for Professional Services Council Board, Exec Committee, Civilian Agencies Panel

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has been re-elected to a three-year term on the Professional Services Council board of directors and newly elected to serve on the council’s executive committee. Unisys said Friday Puvvada was also selected to chair PSC’s Civilian Agencies Council that oversees acquisition policies and strategies of federal civilian agencies such […] More

  • REI Systems to Continue SharePoint Collaboration Platform Support for HHS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    REI Systems to Continue SharePoint Collaboration Platform Support for HHS

    The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded REI Systems a potential two-year contract to continue to provide SharePoint collaboration platform support services to the information technology office at HHS’ Health Resources and Service Administration agency. REI said Dec. 5 it will help HRSA OIT to maintain the SharePoint 2013 server farm, provide customer support and update multiple enterprise websites for […] More

  • Qualys' Cloud Platform Receives FedRAMP Authority-to-Operate From HHS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualys’ Cloud Platform Receives FedRAMP Authority-to-Operate From HHS

    Qualys‘ cloud platform has received an authority-to-operate from the Department of Health and Human Services under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program as the company seeks to expand its footprint in federal civilian agencies. The company said Thursday the Qualys Cloud Platform provides more than 9,200 organizations an integrated suite to support asset discovery, compliance monitoring, network security, […] More

  • Sutter Health, Validic Collaborate to Support Federal Health Data Delivery Pilot Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sutter Health, Validic Collaborate to Support Federal Health Data Delivery Pilot Project

    Sutter Health and Validic have teamed up to support a federal pilot project that aims  to identify strategies for the delivery of patient-generated health data to medical service  providers and researchers. Validic said Wednesday results of the collaborative effort will help inform government policy and provide insight on how the industry can implement remotely-collected patient health information in the U.S. The […] More

  • NeoSystems Introduces Online Resource Center for CMS IT Services Vehicle Awardees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NeoSystems Introduces Online Resource Center for CMS IT Services Vehicle Awardees

    NeoSystems has launched a government contractor online resource center for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ potential 10-year, $25 billion Strategic Partner Acquisition Readiness Contract vehicle for information technology services. The company said Thursday its online resource center and lineup of jump-start events will work to prepare SPARC awardees execute and comply with the contract requirements. “Being […] More

  • HHS Invests Funds to Back Cyber Info Sharing Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Invests Funds to Back Cyber Info Sharing Efforts

    The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $350,000 in cooperative agreements to help private and public healthcare sector partners address cybersecurity threats and develop an information sharing ecosystem. HHS said Tuesday its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology awarded a competitive agreement to the Ormond Beach, Florida-based National Health Information Sharing and Analysis […] More

  • HHS to Fund Commercial Manufacturing Tests for BioProtection Systems' Ebola Vaccine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS to Fund Commercial Manufacturing Tests for BioProtection Systems’ Ebola Vaccine

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded BioProtection Systems a contract with $24.75 million in base funds to support commercial manufacturing tests of the company’s anti-Ebola vaccine. HHS said Tuesday said the tests will work to validate whether manufacturing processes created under a previous contract would produce enough V920 vaccines in the event of an Ebola outbreaks. Funds from the HHS Office […] More

  • WidePoint Secures HHS Mobile Device Mgmt Task Order; Steve Komar, Jin Kang Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint Secures HHS Mobile Device Mgmt Task Order; Steve Komar, Jin Kang Comment

    WidePoint has received an initial three-year, $900,000 task order from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide mobile device management services to HHS’ office of the chief information officer. McLean, Virginia-based WidePoint said Monday the order falls under a HHS blanket purchase agreement through which all component agencies of the department can procure the company’s telecommunications […] More

  • HHS Selects CSRA to Update HR Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Selects CSRA to Update HR Mgmt System

    CSRA has received a potential five-year, $38.9 million contract to help update the Department of Health and Human Services‘ human resources management system. The company said Thursday it will work to upgrade the HHS human resource solutions division’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 8.9 suite to the PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 version. CSRA will also design, develop and integrate the suite and related interfaces […] More

  • HHS' Health IT Coordinator Office Selects 7 Awardees to Support Health Info Exchange - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS’ Health IT Coordinator Office Selects 7 Awardees to Support Health Info Exchange

    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a total of $1.5 million to seven recipients under two cooperative agreement programs in an effort to bolster flows of health information. HHS said Wednesday the funds will create standards-based systems to facilitate health information exchanges and lessons learned […] More

  • Deloitte Presents to HHS Blockchain Adoption Opportunities to Address Health Info Exchange Concerns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Presents to HHS Blockchain Adoption Opportunities to Address Health Info Exchange Concerns

    Deloitte‘s response to the Department of Health and Human Services‘ blockchain ideation challenge focuses on six current “pain points” in the Health Information Exchange and the potential use of blockchain to address them. Deloitte said Thursday HIE users face challenges in the difficulty to establish a trust network, costs per transaction, the lack of a Master Patient Index, inconsistent data standards, […] More