Tag Archives: Department of Veterans Affairs

Thomas Scientific has secured a potential $105.8M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide nasopharyngeal swabs to five federal executive departments and the Indian Health Service.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced its intent to issue a contract modification to TriWest Healthcare Alliance to set up and maintain a network of health care providers and practitioners in the Pacific Islands as part of the Community Care Network Region 6.

The Trump administration has appointed Camilo Sandoval as federal chief information security officer, FedScoop reported on Wednesday. Sandoval, who assumed the role in Oct. 2020, will succeed Grant Schneider, who left the position in Aug. 2020 to join Venable  as senior director of cybersecurity services. Prior to assuming the role, Sandoval served as president and chief information officer (CIO) of MCI.  

Sean Kelley, former deputy chief information officer for account management of benefits and veteran experience at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has been appointed vice president for the VA business area at General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology arm.

Katrina Tuisamatatele, who spent 12 years at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ office of information and technology, has joined Halfaker and Associates as deputy executive vice president of health operations.

GovConWire Events will host the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Virtual Forum featuring keynote speaker Brian Barnes, associate administrator of the Office of Small Business Utilization at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), on October 20th. To register for the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum, as well as view future events, visit GovConWire Events.

Private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has made an investment in GovernmentCIO, a provider of technology and digital platforms to the federal health information technology services market, to support the latter’s organic growth initiatives and client base expansion efforts.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a potential 15-year, $722M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to six companies to provide wired telecommunications services to VA Medical Centers.

Contract spending across civilian government agencies increased to $228B during fiscal year 2020, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. BGOV data shows the amount represents a 17 percent rise from approximately $194B in FY 2019.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded TriWest Healthcare Alliance a potential $5B contract to set up and maintain a network of health care providers and practitioners throughout the state of Alaska.