Federal health services provider OptumServe has named Robert Harsla, a former director at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as vice president of business development, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday. At LexisNexis, Harsala worked in support of health care-focused programs under the departments of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare ...
A Deltek analysis shows that 79 percent of the total value of the top 10 federal professional services opportunities in fiscal year 2022 fall under follow-ons to existing contracts and that 90 percent of those opportunities in FY 2022 are expected to be single-award contracts, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. The U.S. Agency for Internationa...
Fors Marsh Group will continue helping the Department of Health and Human Services promote COVID-19 vaccine awareness under a $150 million contract that expands an earlier $250 million award from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the same effort. FMG and its subcontractors will support HHS’ COVID-19 Public Education ...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has secured a one-year contract renewal from the Department of Health and Human Services to support data management software used to monitor the government’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration activities nationwide. HHS enlisted the help of Palantir in mid-2020 to develop and implement the Tiber...
Recently named senior vice president of Verizon’s public sector business Jennifer Chronis, was presented her first Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson for driving technology offerings, expanding revenue and partnering with industry leaders to drive digital transfor...
The departments of Defense and Health and Human Services have coordinated to execute contract actions worth $226.3 million combined to help four companies increase domestic production capacity for COVID-19 antibody tests and nitrile gloves. DOD said Friday its Defense Assisted Acquisition Cell organization led the contracting process while the HHS O...
Battelle, Clinical Enterprise and PerkinElmer Health Sciences have received contracts worth potentially $650 million combined to help the U.S. government ramp up COVID-19 testing efforts nationwide. The Department of Defense said Wednesday it issued the awards under a partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services to deploy test kits a...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for driving health initiatives, priorities and modernization, as well as his efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This marks Becerra’s first Wash100 Award. In Jan. 2021, Biden selected Becerra...
With a month left in the Wash100 voting season, more than 8,600 votes have been cast thus far to determine who the government contracting (GovCon) community believes will become the most significant executive of consequence to the federal sector for the rest of 2021 and in the years to come. The Wash100 Award is presented...
An Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) business segment has secured an approximately $255 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for 50 million units of a rapid point-of-care antigen test for COVID-19. Abbott Rapid DX North America will produce and supply its BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card in support of the...
