Peraton Inc. finally claimed a piece of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ massive cloud effort Monday with an infrastructure-as-a-managed service contract worth close to $500 million.
The seven-year, $497 million contract calls on the Herndon IT contractor to provide hardware, software and services for the VA’s storage and computer infrastructure throughout a network of agency facilities through cloud-enabled offerings.
The award originally came from a bid by then-Perspecta Inc., who secured the contract on May 21, two weeks after it closed its $7.1 billion merger with Peraton, who is owned by New York-based private equity firm Veritas Capital.
However, that award decision was protested a month later by Reston technology company Thundercat Technology LLC, putting a halt to work on the contract.
It’s unclear what the grounds are of the protest, filed with the Government Accountability Office, as Thundercat withdrew the protest on July 13, clearing the way for Peraton to move forward with the award.
Peraton executives said in a statement the company will “support up to 220-plus petabytes of the VA's mission critical data, ranging from business operations data to the medical images used in veteran care." It will also establish a standardized service delivery model to create better efficiency to cloud-based services.
The contract is part of the VA’s enterprise cloud strategy to move a wide swath of software applications and information technology services to cloud networks for better efficiency.
Work on the contract is expected to be performed at up to 300 VA sites.
