Four companies have each won a potential five-year, $75M contract to provide the Food and Drug Administration™s center for biologics evaluation and research with data, tools and infrastructure for use in the surveillance of vaccines, tissues, blood products and other biologics. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says IBM (NYSE: IBM), Acumen, Dov...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 26, 2018 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has helped develop and test a blockchain-based platform designed to help the Food and Drug Administration™s Office of Translational Sciences explore how to use the technology for healthcare applications, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The platform, which is currently impleme...
The Food and Drug Administration has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and Octo Consulting Group spots on a potential seven-year, $300 million blanket purchase agreement to update data collection and analysis systems in support of FDA™s patient safety and drug development efforts, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. Oct...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 13, 2017 ” IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health unit has entered into a research initiative with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in an effort to explore blockchain technology application for health data, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it will work with the agency to study...
The Food and Drug Administration has awarded Engility (NYSE: EGL) a potential five-year, $112 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide computational science and bioinformatics services for the FDA’s gene-based drug discovery and development programs. Engility said Thursday it will help the FDA operate, secure an...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” Siemens has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s VERSANT Zika RNA 1.0 Assay Kit that aims to detect the presence of the Zika virus in plasma, blood and urine samples, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monda...
Information Innovators Inc. has secured a potential five-year, $100 million contract from the Food and Drug Administration to provide web content management system support services. Triple-i said Tuesday the new blanket purchase agreement seeks to expand the services the company provided under a previous contract, ...
Jess Berrellez has joined DLH as its new vice president of health IT strategy & operations. The company said Monday Berrellez will work closely with the corporate growth team to advance strategic cohesion, elevate operational performance and foster innovation throughout the health IT portfolio. She will leverage her proven track record...
The U.S. Senate voted 60–40 to advance a bipartisan funding measure that could end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, clearing a key procedural hurdle toward reopening federal agencies and restoring pay for hundreds of thousands of workers. The vote allows debate to proceed on a modified continuing resolution that would extend curren...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command has started seeking industry feedback for a potential $8 billion Multiple Award Construction Contract for large scale general construction projects. According to the request for proposal issued on SAM.gov Monday, the design-build/design-bid-build, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers v...
