The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded Ernst & Young (EY) a $49 million IDIQ (indefinite delivery indefinite quantity) contract vehicle for intelligent automation and artificial intelligence (IAAI) products and services.

The Health and Human Services Program Support Center is managing a government-wide contract vehicle for IAAI services. The intent of the vehicle is to promote innovation in this space through funding support for rapid prototyping and proof of concepts leveraging robotic process automation, natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and blockchain, said EY in a statement.

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