Veterans Affairs chooses joint venture for $276M data program contract
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Ross Wilkers
A joint venture of ThunderYard and Booz Allen Hamilton will work with VA on providing an ecosystem of data management tools to health care and benefits providers.
A joint venture of ThunderYard and Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential five-year, $276 million task order to help the Veterans Affairs Department manage a portfolio of data and analytics programs focused on health care.
Known as DAIMO, the Data and Analytics Integration Modernization and Operations contract involves product engineering work to aid in how VA provides an ecosystem of data management tools to care and benefits providers.
The department received 16 offers in total for DAIMO and structured it as a small business set-aside, according to Federal Procurement Data System records.
ThunderYard-Liberty JV is set up as a mentor-protégé venture. Booz Allen inherited its stake in the JV via the acquisition of Liberty IT Solutions in 2021.
Presolicitation documents issued in October describe DAIMO as a consolidation of requirements from four previous task orders held by three large business incumbents: Booz Allen, IBM and Science Applications International Corp.
VA set up DAIMO to bring together development, modernization and sustainment functions for products and programs under the responsibility of the department’s product engineering service team.
That team works with others across VA to help facilitate the sharing of interoperable data products across the department for health care and benefit delivery.