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PwC Awarded Department Of Health And Human Services Contract

By TechTaffy Desk

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PwC US was awarded a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) to provide information technology (IT) services to federal agencies.

NITAAC’s Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) is a multiple-award, Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) with a ceiling of $20 billion across all awardees over the next 10 years. With an unrestricted award, PwC will be eligible to compete for task orders in all 10 CIO-SP3 Service Areas, which include IT Services for Biomedical Research, Health Sciences and Healthcare, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Support, Imaging, Outsourcing, IT Operations and Maintenance, Integration Services, Critical Infrastructure Protection and Information Assurance, Digital Government, Enterprise Resource Planning, Software Development.

Upload: 06-18-12

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