<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color>Three bidders have filed documents to recoup costs incurred from the Treasury Department's Treasury Communications Enterprise contract, a cancelled billion-dollar project.
Enterprise system development services are being sought by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as part of its new approach for acquiring, delivering and managing IT.
President Bush signed into law the The Veterans Benefits, Health Care and Information Technology Act of 2006 designed to improve veterans' benefits, health care, and the security of their sensitive data.
Thomson Medstat has been awarded a contract renewal from the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research to build and support the next version of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.
A public or private shared-services provider is being sought by the Labor Department for its Human Resources Line of Business to replace its current HR and payroll systems.
After years of contention with the Bush administration and Congress, the plug has been pulled by the Treasury Department on its controversial $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract.
FDA plans to completely move to electronic submissions of reporting for regulated drug products and to create a common electronic platform to exchange data.
In order to advance capabilities for the Nationwide Health Information Network next year, HHS will pursue contracts for trial implementations that will include state and regional health information organization exchange efforts.
Eight companies have been chosen by the Veterans Affairs Department to provide application maintenance services for its VistA electronic health records system.
Details of an emergency-responder electronic health record as another early use for health IT are being developed by the Health and Human Services Department.
The IRS announced last week it will not proceed with a public-private competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 for the entire Seat Management program.
The Agricultural Department expects to have a blanket purchase agreement, from which it will purchase encryption products, in place by Jan. 1, and anticipates purchasing 150,000 licenses.
Aquilent Inc. has been awarded a Veterans Affairs Department task order to establish an integrated content strategy framework for its Enterprise Content Management System.
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.
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.
