SAIC Secures Position on Veterans Affairs Department’s $61B IT Services Vehicle

Reston, Virginia-based Science Applications International Corp. has announced that it will compete for task orders to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with information technology services under a new $60.7 billion contract.

The Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation Two vehicle consists of 11 technical functional areas to support VA and other federal agencies, SAIC said Wednesday.

The company noted that it is a prime contractor in the first position and, in the second, it is a contractor in a joint venture with HigherEchelon. A press release indicates that SAIC serves as a mentor organization to HigherEchelon.

Vishal Tulsian, SAIC’s senior vice president of health, state and local and federal financials, affirmed his company’s support for VA’s efforts to acquire IT services, including systems engineering, secure application development and customer service.

According to SAIC, it executed 16 task orders worth a combined $935 million under the agency’s previous contract vehicle.

VA selected 29 other companies to compete under the T4NG2 contract, including Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte Consulting, ECS Federal and ManTech.