Contracts

VA seeks industry ideas for contact center tech upgrade

The agency is asking for artificial intelligence applications including conversational voice bots and chatbots with multilingual capabilities.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

Judge sides with VA in T4NG2 protest case

The Veterans Affairs Department's potential 10-year, $60 billion IT modernization vehicle has been tied up in court for almost two years.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

Veterans Affairs unveils solicitation for $175M biomedical support contract

Veterans Affairs Department officials set up the multiple-award effort to bridge workforce gaps as it recruits more staff for biomedical engineering functions.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

VA unveils blueprint for new enterprise resource planning system buy

The eventual contract winner will work under an enterprise software license subscription model for up to four-and-a-half years.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

Veterans Affairs seeks input on its cloud buying future

The department wants to get a better handle on how it manages 757 applications and systems across two cloud environments.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

Veterans Affairs chooses 9 for $14B health care transformation recompete

VA described its ideal lineup of teams for this contract as having "combined their reach and collective capabilities to tackle some of VHA’s largest professional service requirements."

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

Veterans Affairs chooses joint venture for $276M data program contract

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.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts

WT 360: Nextgov/FCW’s Edward Graham on the Veterans Affairs’ contract controversy

Edward Graham, our Nextgov/FCW colleague who covers VA, jumps in to break down why some lawmakers are pressing the department for transparency on its use of artificial intelligence in deciding which contracts to cancel.

  • By Edward Graham and Ross Wilkers
Contracts

Veterans Affairs starts to craft financial system recompete

The Veterans Affairs Department is seeking a contractor that can help develop and configure new deployments on an incremental basis.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

Lawmakers demand review of VA’s AI-driven contract cuts

Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Angus King, I-Maine, said the use of AI to identify agency contracts for termination “adds an entire new level of unease connected to the decision-making, security, governance, and quality control of the entire process.”

  • By Edward Graham
Companies

PSI wins $156M Veterans Affairs testing recompete

Planned Systems International conducts tests and manages projects related to the rollout of the new Oracle Cerner electronic health record.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

VA puts Oracle Cerner on a short leash in $10B health records contract

The agency extended the contract for its EHR provider by one year, and put performance conditions in place.

  • By Adam Mazmanian, FCW
Contracts

VA adds 6 months to health record deployment pause

The delay is designed to give the Department of Veterans Affairs and Cerner Oracle more time to iron out serious performance issues in the multibillion dollar software upgrade.

  • By Adam Mazmanian, FCW

VA adds tablets to contracting vehicle

The Veterans Affairs Department has added amendments to an upcoming major procurement vehicle to specify several types of tablets and light laptop computers it may want to buy.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Tighter controls save VA more than $1B

While questioning some IT programs, VA Inspector General George Opfer said his office's efforts had resulted in $1.2 billion in savings, avoided costs and other monetary benefits.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

House shaves funding for Veterans Affairs IT projects

House appropriators plan to decrease funds for the Veterans Affairs Department’s information technology projects because of sluggish spending and project delays.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

VA cancels $400M modernization contract

Agency ends financial management modernization effort. See who's getting the money.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

VA offers $80M in industry contest

The Veterans Affairs Department announced the third round of innovation competitions, this time with $80 million available for contracts to the winners.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Is open source the cure for what ails VA's e-records?

An industry group convened by VA CIO Roger Baker is advising that VistA move to an open source platform and phase out MUMPS.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Is VA the new model for managing IT?

After making headlines for putting 188 projects on the chopping block, VA CIO Roger Baker explains his philosophy behind managing IT contracts.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
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