“The Department of Health and Human Services cut a telecommunications contract for all of its component agencies with a ceiling value north of $2.5 billion General Services Administration’s governmentwide telecommunications contract.”
“On Aug. 12, HHS signed with Verizon Business Services on GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract. The contract extends through July, 2032, if all options are exercised.”
“The contract covers all 10 of the agency’s operating components, as well as the agency’s Office of the Secretary, according to an Aug. 28 blog post by the agency’s Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, and Scott Rowell, assistant secretary for administration. The single contract, they said, combines what would have been 11 separate contracts ‘all operating independently of each other and creating an infrastructure that was complex and inefficient…’” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS signs $2.5B consolidated telecom contract – By Mark Rockwell, August 31, 2020. FCW.
