DLH Holdings Corp. has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity multiple-award contract to augment the Department of Veterans Affairs’ efforts to design, develop and test innovations in health care.
As part of the Accelerating VA Innovation and Learning contract, DLH will compete with 17 prime awardees for individual task orders across five task categories: personalized health care, data transformation, digital care, immersive technology (extended reality solutions), and care and service delivery.
“Ensuring Veterans have access to the highest quality care is central to the DLH mission, and this contract enables our company to connect the VA with the emerging tools, advanced processes, digital solutions, and data transformation required to support their long-standing tradition as a pioneer in medical innovation,” said DLH Chief Growth Officer Jackie Everett.
“DLH will leverage our expertise in applied research, genomics, synthetic data modeling, augmented and virtual reality, digital health tools, and synthetic data modeling to support the design, development and testing of the next generation of medical devices needed by the VA as it accelerates its pace of modernization,” Everett added.
The multiple-award contract consists of a 5-year base period and has a $650 million ceiling in aggregate for all awardees. Specific values will be allocated to contractors as task orders are competed and awarded.
DLH President and CEO Zach Parker said the company is honored for the opportunity to expand on its long-standing relationship with VA.
“Under this contract, DLH may apply our digital transformation capabilities ⏤ spanning artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data analytics, telehealth, modeling and simulation, and more ⏤ towards improving the advanced solutions available to Veterans, clinicians, and caregivers,” he said.