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  • Octo Consulting Adopts New Health IT Special Item Number on GSA Schedule; Jay Shah Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting Adopts New Health IT Special Item Number on GSA Schedule; Jay Shah Comments

    The General Services Administration has included its new special item number for health information technology offerings in Octo Consulting Group‘s IT Schedule 70 contract with GSA. GSA implemented the 132-56 SIN to help federal customers access and procure healthcare IT products from commercial providers, Octo Consulting said Sunday. “Octo Consulting Group has always had a strong focus on health IT as demonstrated by our […] More

  • The Sequoia Project Certifies CGI's CONNECT Open Source Platform for Use on eHealth Exchange - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    The Sequoia Project Certifies CGI’s CONNECT Open Source Platform for Use on eHealth Exchange

    The Sequoia Project has certified the use of CGI‘s CONNECT Gateway open source platform on the eHealth Exchange network for health information sharing. CGI said Monday the gateway works to support the dissemination of health information to more than 2,000 organizations such as federal agencies and health-related organizations. The company added it partnered with the U.S. Federal Health Architecture to deliver program management, […] More

  • InBios Receives HHS Funds for Zika Diagnostic Test Development; Nicole Lurie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InBios Receives HHS Funds for Zika Diagnostic Test Development; Nicole Lurie Comments

    InBios International has received a two-year, $5.1 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to further develop a blood screening technology intended to identify people infected with the Zika virus. HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response will fund the serological test being developed by InBios with the goal to speed up […] More

  • NIH Picks Vibrent Health Platform for National Precision Medicine Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Picks Vibrent Health Platform for National Precision Medicine Study

    The National Institutes of Health has awarded Vibrent Health a five-year, $74 million contract to supply a technology platform for NIH to enroll and engage U.S. participants in the cohort program of the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative. Vibrent Health said Wednesday it will develop, test, maintain and update the platform for the nationwide medical research effort using data hosting services from Amazon […] More

  • Ceres Nanosciences Gets Funds From DARPA to Test Methods for Immune Function Markers Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ceres Nanosciences Gets Funds From DARPA to Test Methods for Immune Function Markers Detection

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $980,000 in funds to Virginia-based Ceres Nanosciences to assess methods for the detection of immune system markers with the use of the company’s sample processing technology. Ceres will work with Tufts University and George Mason University to adapt the Nanotrap sample processing technology for the capture of immune system […] More

  • Bechtel to Continue Support Work for Gabon's $25B Nat'l Infrastructure Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel to Continue Support Work for Gabon’s $25B Nat’l Infrastructure Plan

    Bechtel has extended its partnership with Gabon to continue work on a $25 billion national infrastructure plan that looks to build the country’s skill base for project management, construction, engineering, project controls, sustainability, health, safety, environment, quality and contracts. Bechtel said Wednesday the collaboration has established a public works agency called l’Agence Nationale des Grands Travaux d’Infrastructures — or ANGTI — […] More

  • BARDA Issues Platelet Treatment Tech Trial Grant to Terumo BCT - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BARDA Issues Platelet Treatment Tech Trial Grant to Terumo BCT

    Medical device manufacturer Terumo BCT has received $17.4 million in initial funds from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to conduct a clinical trial on a technology intended to help facilitate platelet treatments in patients. Terumo BCT said Tuesday its Pathogen Reduction Technology system designed to study the clinical effectiveness of standard platelets in plasma compared to Mirasol-treated platelets in plasma for patients […] More

  • Vanaja Ragavan: Aviana Receives NASA Grant for Biosensor Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vanaja Ragavan: Aviana Receives NASA Grant for Biosensor Tech Development

    Aviana Molecular Technologies has been selected to build sensors for installation in NASA‘s extra-terrestrial mission vehicles as well as repurpose the devices as biosensors. NASA awarded a grant to the startup diagnostic company in conjunction with the University of Central Florida for the sensor development project as part of the agency’s Small Business Technology Transfer initiative, Aviana said Monday. The […] More

  • Leidos, Immunovaccine Form Zika Vaccine Development Partnership; Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, Immunovaccine Form Zika Vaccine Development Partnership; Jerry Hogge Comments

    Leidos and Canada-based clinical vaccine developer Immunovaccine have forged an agreement to jointly develop a preventive agent against the mosquito-borne Zika virus in an effort to halt the spread of the disease that has affected much of Latin America within the past year. The companies said Thursday Immunovaccine will use its DepoVax platform to create an anti-Zika vaccine and […] More

  • Navy Awards Virus Testing Contract to Center for Disease Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Awards Virus Testing Contract to Center for Disease Detection

    The U.S. Navy has awarded the Center for Disease Detection a potential $49 million contract for blood testing services that work to detect HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. The contract covers testing of active-duty and reserve Navy and U.S. Marine Corps military personnel as part of the Navy Bloodborne Infection Management Center requirements, the Defense Department […] More

  • New IBM Initiative Aims to Address Public Health Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New IBM Initiative Aims to Address Public Health Issues

    IBM has introduced a new initiative to pick heath organizations that will $500,000 in healthcare engagement and expert assistance in an effort to help address public health challenges. The company began to solicit health projects from civil, governmental and social sector organizations for IBM’s health and technology team to solve, IBM said Tuesday. IBM intends […] More

  • Executive Profile: Sudip Parikh, Battelle Health and Consumer Solutions VP, GM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Sudip Parikh, Battelle Health and Consumer Solutions VP, GM

    Sudip Parikh serves as vice president and general manager of health and consumer solutions at Battelle, where he leads the scientific, technical, business development, communications and marketing team. Parikh is also the VP of the firm’s health policy since May 2009 and was previously the VP of AgriFood and global AgriFood business lead at Battelle. […] More