The federal government released a $50 billion governmentwide acquisition contract opportunity geared toward cybersecurity and health IT tools this week, NextGov reported May 27.
Three details:
- The contract will focus onIT services for biomedical research, health sciences and healthcare; CIO support; digital media; outsourcing; IT operations and maintenance; integration services; cybersecurity; digital government and cloud services; enterprise resource planning; and software development.
- The contract will have a $50 billion limit to start, a five-year base period and one five-year optional add-on, NextGov reported.
- The program was delayed several months while it awaited approval by federal officials who had been attending to pandemic-related issues, according to program managers at the National Institutes of Health, the article stated