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, ...
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...
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, or GSFC, has begun soliciting feedback on a draft request for proposals for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for support services to help the space agency plan and manage missions, programs and projects. According to a notice published Monday, NASA will accept comments on the draft RFP for...
The 21st Century Cures Act, commonly referred to as the Cures Act, is entering the final year of its initially-approved nine-year run, but Department of Health and Human Services officials say they are still “hard at work” bringing it to bear. The law is meant to deliver healthcare technology and IT policy at the rapid...
