Major IT Work at VA Has Triple Maximum Value of Current Contract

Vendors have until Friday to indicate initial interest in taking on the next generation of VA’s complex IT services work, which the agency has valued at up to $60.7 billion.

Considerations like hitting the ceiling of the approved maximum contract value could explain the more than $38 billion surge in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ plans for the follow-on to the existing Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation, or T4NG, contract.

T4NG2‘s near tripling of the incumbent contract’s maximum value comes amid congressional criticism of the VA’s overall acquisition management. The Government Accountability Office put the agency’s acquisition ...