The Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) has published a request for information (“RFI”) in anticipation of replacing its $12 billion IT modernization contract, the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (“T4”) contract, which is scheduled to expire in 2016.  The new contract vehicle, referred to as T4 Next Generation, or T4NG, retains the 11 task areas from the existing T4 contract, including program management, enterprise architecture and planning support, systems and software engineering, data migration, cybersecurity, and training. Unlike the T4 contract, however, the T4NG contract will include a single five-year option in addition to the basic contract ordering period of five years.  Companies interested in participating in the contract must note their interest and provide a submission outlining their respective capabilities to perform the work described in the draft PWS. Responses to the RFI are due at 3:00 p.m. EST on August 28 via the Virtual Office of Acquisition (VOA) at https://www.voa.va.gov/.

The Department of Defense’s (“DoD”) Defense Health Agency (“DHA”) is also expected to award two large defense health information technology contracts in the next 18 months: the $11 billion single-award DoD Healthcare Management System Modernization (“DHMSM”) contract, and a new $20 billion contract vehicle to replace the Defense Medical Information Systems/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations, and Maintenance Services (“D/SIDDOMS III”) vehicle, which we highlighted in our June 30, 2014 e-alert. The DHMSM contract is aimed at modernizing DoD’s electronic health record system while sustaining advances that the DoD has made with respect to its interoperability with the VA during transitions of care.  The D/SIDDOMS III contract provides the Military Health System, its components, and the VA with the ability to order services, equipment, materials and facilities to design, test and operate IT systems and system components. The DoD issued a final Request for Proposals for the DHMSM contract on August 25, 2014.  Bids for the DHMSM contract are due by October 9, 2014.  A draft RFP for the D/SIDDOMS III replacement vehicle was released in July 2014.