D/SIDDOMS 3: $8B Medical IT Contract That’s a Mouthful

Delicate operation(click to view full) When you think of military healthcare, you might picture MASH doctors performing surgery on wounded soldiers. Or you might picture a US soldier injured by an IED being rehabilitated in a hospital state-side. You probably don’t think of computers, networks and Web sites. But modern healthcare, whether military or civilian, depends on information technology for all of the advanced medical technology to work together seamlessly. To procure military IT, the US Department of Defense developed a contract vehicle called the Defense Medical Information Systems/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations and Maintenance Services (D/SIDDOMS 3) contract. Just rolls off the tongue, don’t it. While hardly Shakespeare, the contract vehicle enables US military services and the US Department of Veterans Affairs to buy medical IT equipment and services through task orders from a group of eager contractors operating under an $8 billion contract ceiling… The D/SIDDOMS 3 contracts were awarded Dec 14/03 for a 1-year base period with 9 one-year option periods. There are 19 prime contractors: * Accenture (W74V8H-04-D-0027) * Apptis (W74V8H-04-D-0023) * Base Technologies (W74V8H-04-D-0020) * Business Computer Applications (W74V8H-04-D-0022) * CACI (W74V8H-04-D-34) * CSC (W74V8H-04-D-0017) * EDS, a unit of HP (W74V8H-04-D-0030) * Evolvent Technologies […]