Health care cyber safety

Iron Vine Security to Provide Cybersecurity Services to CMS Under $120M Contract

Advanced technology, science and engineering services provider ECS Federal announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $120 million contract to its subsidiary Iron Vine Security for cybersecurity support to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The task for the CMS Cybersecurity Integration Center Operations will extend up to 2029 ECS services to the agency and the CMS Healthcare Marketplace under a previous award. Iron Vine has been providing cybersecurity services to the CMS since 2016, ECS said Tuesday.

The company added that through Iron Vine, which it acquired 2022, it will continue delivering managed cybersecurity services, such as threat intelligence analytics and data forensics, to CMS operations.

John Heneghan, ECS president and a 2024 Wash100 winner, welcomed the opportunity to support CMS health care services to millions of Americans.

William Geimer, ECS enterprise solutions vice president, described the contract award as a “great win” for the company, its partners and personnel’s cybersecurity services advancing the CMS mission forward.

In early March, ECS also won a slot in in a five-year, $500 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide systems engineering, technical advisory support and other professional services to the HHS Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.