SAIC to Provide IT Services to U.S. Military Health System
(SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, VA) Nov 9, 2005- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today it was awarded a contract to maintain and enhance functionality for the health care information systems within the Military Health System (MHS). This time and materials contract calls for a base term of one year along with two consecutive one-year option periods, which combined have a potential cumulative value of $154 million.
Extending an 18-year record of service to the MHS, SAIC will continue to provide a wide range of information technology in support of more than nine million active duty and retired military personnel and their families. This contract consists of on-site maintenance and around-the-clock monitoring of health applications such as the Composite Health Care System (CHCS), including database administration, trouble-shooting, report generation, appointments, LAN/WAN expertise, help desk services and specialized software development for more than 102 military treatment facilities around the world.
“SAIC has a long legacy of providing the highest quality large-scale systems development and maintenance services to the MHS,” said Robert McCord, SAIC senior vice president and general manager of SAIC's Health Solutions Business Unit. “This global contract, which encompasses both development and maintenance, will allow SAIC to provide a streamlined, end-to-end approach that can help the MHS achieve economies of scale and cost savings.”
SAIC also will continue to provide consolidated services that strengthen and add to the functionality of the system. Among such services are software and systems engineering, configuration management, data management, planning and scheduling, tier three support, deployment and logistics support and conversion to emerging systems like the next generation CHCS II.
Colonel Vic Eilenfield, program manager of the Clinical Information Technology Program Office of the Military Health System said, “The support SAIC has provided CHCS users has instilled them with great confidence in our clinical systems, and the number of patients who have been assisted by the system SAIC produced and maintains is now truly countless.”
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