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Octo Awarded $11 million Contract by the Department of Health and Human Services to Provide Program Management SupportOcto, an award-winning provider of technology and digital services to the Federal government, today announced that it has been awarded a five-year, $11 million IT project management contract by the Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS), Office of IT Strategy, Policy and Governance (OSPG). Building off a four year partnership with OSPG, Octo will assist the Department to strengthen its program management and oversight capability to support its ever expanding portfolio of complex IT programs and systems. Octo will be responsible for providing program support; strategy, policy, and governance support services; vendor management office support services; and administrative services. These efforts are intended to allow the Department to successfully deliver IT programs, use data to drive decisions, and meet new IT challenges of the future. "We're honored to have the opportunity to grow and build upon our relationship with OSPG," said Jay Shah, Executive Vice President, Octo. "We have a strong commitment to providing program management support at a critical time as the agency, in many ways, is redefining themselves and t allow HHS to successfully achieve favorable outcomes on both internal and external metrics such as FITARA." Previously a subcontractor, for this award Octo was selected as the prime contractor based on its in-depth understanding of OSPG's requirements coupled with its technical expertise and strong past performance across all requirements of the contract. In addition, iVision Consulting will be providing strategic IT planning support under the contract. The OSPG contract extends Octo's engagement with HHS to over 10 years. It is a one year contract with four additional option years. The total value of the contract is $11.1 million. Octo is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of digital services for the Federal Government. Octo specializes in providing agile software development, user experience design, and cloud engineering services that address the government's most pressing missions and modernization challenges. Octo is one of only 11 private companies in the United States to have been appraised at CMMI® Level 4 for Software Development Maturity (CMMI-DEV constellation). In addition, Octo also maintains ISO 9001:2008, ISO 20000:2013, and ISO 27001:2013 certifications and is one of only seven government contractors that is a Scaled Agile (News - Alert) Framework (SAFe) Gold Partner: an industry-accepted framework for developing software applications using Agile development principles. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Octo has additional offices in Alexandria, Virginia and Columbia, Maryland. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171017005643/en/ |
