“The Veterans Affairs Department is using a specific data visualization tool in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and recently awarded a $1.5 million sole source contract to upgrade and automate the software.”
“VA awarded a contract to Four Points Technology through NASA’s governmentwide acquisition contract Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement, or SEWP, to acquire, integrate and maintain the latest version of Edge Technologies’ visualization tools.”
“While VA already uses Edge Technologies’ software to visualize patient data, the current tools rely on outdated Adobe Flash players with security holes, among other issues. Under the new contract, VA will be upgrading to the EdgeCore tool, which is based on HTML5 and comes with a host of other improvements.”
“’This acquisition will provide additional visualization and integration capabilities, eliminate security vulnerabilities related to Adobe Flash used in the current version, enhance 508 Disability Compliance, and provide new robotic process automation features,’ according to the award announcement.”
“Contracting officers looked at several other potential products, including Microsoft BI, Splunk, Qlikview and Elastic’s Kibana, but none would be able to slot in without significant changes to VA’s systems…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Awards Sole Source Contract to Upgrade, Automate Its COVID19 Visualization Tool – By Aaron Boyd, August 25, 2020. Nextgov.
