The Department of Veterans Affairs says it’s ready to start moving away from the multibillion dollar IT platform it had intended to use to manage its massive health care logistics enterprise, and will now use its own contract vehicle to replace its troubled implementation of the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support system (DMLSS).
Officials said Tuesday they are now reducing the scope and funding of their previous $2.6 billion interagency agreement with DoD to use the DMLSS system, whose implementation at VA has not gone well. In its place, VA is planning a new, more expansive supply chain modernization effort that will be managed by a single vendor or team of vendors over the next ten years.
Michael Parrish, the department’s chief acquisition officer, said VA hasn’t fully determined what the new solution will look like yet. To do that, the department first wants to prototype potential offerings from several different companies and simultaneously gather feedback from end users… Read the full article here.
