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Dell Chosen NIH Contract Prime Recipient

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Dell was chosen as one of the prime recipients by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) for their Chief Information Officer – Solution and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) contract. CIO-SP3 is a multiple award Government Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) with a ceiling value of $20 billion. The 10-year indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract offers IT support for Federal Enterprise Architecture, the Federal Health Architecture and the Department of Defense Department Enterprise Architecture.

Under this contract, Dell has the opportunity to deliver a wide range of services, including software development, enterprise management systems, digital government, critical infrastructure protection and information assurance, integration services, IT operations and maintenance, outsourcing, imaging, CIO support, and IT services for biomedical research, health sciences, health care and general IT.

 

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