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Salient Federal Solutions Awarded CIO-SP3 Contract

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Salient Federal Solutions, a  provider of information technology, engineering, and intelligence analytic services to agencies in the intelligence, defense, homeland security, and federal civilian markets announced its wholly owned subsidiary ATSC, was awarded a prime contract by the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC). Members of the team include RCM Technologies, Inc. (RCM) and Corporate Network Services (CNS).

The Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) contract is a Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) for IT Solutions. This 10-year multiple award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity is valued at $20 Billion for all awardees. Under this contract, awardees will provide a broad range of IT Solutions across 10 task areas to meet health, scientific, biomedical, and information management requirements for numerous Federal agencies.

The Salient team will provide IT Solutions on the following distinct task areas: 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 Management Systems, and Software Development.

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