CMS Awards Web Hosting Contract to EDS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded EDS, worldwide technology solutions provider, a hosting task order to support CMS’s outward facing websites -- the second one issued to EDS under the CMS Enterprise Data Center $1.9 billion Indefinite Quality Contract

July 10, 2006 — (TopHosts News Brief) – EDS, global technology services provider, announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded them a task order to supply Web hosting services to support all of CMS’s outtward facing websites.

If all options are exercised, the value of the contract will be $41 million. The task order marks the second one issued to EDS under the CMS Enterprise Data Center (EDC) $1.9 billion Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract, which is a multi-vendor vehicle CMS is using to consolidate data center operations. The first task order, worth up to $29 million, was awarded in April 2006.

Through the new task order, EDS will support the agency’s primary vehicles for communicating with U.S. citizens, http://www.medicare.gov and http://www.cms.hhs.gov domains. EDS will also support other CMS web-based mid-tier legacy applications, and disaster recovery and testing operations for these applications. EDS is among three other companies competing for the 10-year EDC contract task orders to consolidate CMS operations at over 20 different facilities.

“This task order will allow CMS to cut data center costs and improve responsiveness to the millions of users of Medicare services,” Vice president of EDS Civilian Healthcare, Don Picard, said in a PR Newswire release. “The work performed by EDS under these task orders begins CMS’ first step toward consolidating the agency’s mid-tier applications into an EDC environment.”

For more information on EDS visit http://www.eds.com.