Powerful political and regulatory cross-currents could affect acquisition strategies and impinge on federal IT consolidation in the short term, but long-term prospects for continued consolidation remain strong.
For 16 years, Serco Inc. has ridden an accelerating trend of government agencies turning to contractors for work that goes beyond the realm of usual IT services.
EDS Corp. won two, five-year task orders worth an estimated $120 million to deliver IT support for antifraud programs at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Qwest Communications won a contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide bandwidth transmission services for DOD's global information grid.
General Dynamics Information Technology won a contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation to set up a military battlefield training site in Jordan.
SRA Inc. has been awarded a contract from the Agriculture Department for the development and implementation of a Web-based Supply Chain Management System to replace the current one.
Stanley Inc. won a $63 million contract to continue supplying telecommunications and IT infrastructure support to the Defense Department's Joint Strike Fighter Program Office.
QuadraMed Corp. will provide the Department of Veteran Affairs' medical centers with a shot in the arm through a contract to improve inpatient and outpatient coding.
Lockheed Martin won a contract modification from the Air Force to continue furnishing technological and simulation support for its virtual combat training facility.
A team of three companies, led by DynCorp International Inc., won a five-year, $450 million contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to deliver global disaster response services.
In order to update IT without break the bank, the IRS has hired Price Systems to provide services under a five-year contract that could be worth $10 million.
Dynamics Research Corp. will deliver business analysis and management support to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. through a contract worth nearly $29 million.
The General Service Administration has announced that it will not exercise the remaining options under a contested contract providing Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 services to its shared-services provider customers.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded a contract worth as much as $9 billion to six vendors for contact-center operations for general Medicare and claims inquiries among all CMS communications channels.
The Air Force tapped CACI International Inc. to support its automated information system for medical logistics and facilities management and maintenance for military personnel worldwide.
