Recently Awarded Heath IT Small Businesses

The federal healthcare sphere is being innovated with advanced technological support from industry. Given these services provided by the private sector, AlphaBrook seeks to highlight the cutting-edge small and otherwise socioeconomically disadvantaged businesses that have recently secured contracts for IT services within health-focused agencies such as HHS, DHA, and VA. It would behoove firms seeking to win similar contracts to make note of these companies for prospective teaming arrangements.

VersaTech – VersaTech is a small business making waves in the health IT landscape of federal contracting. This firm specializes in delivering highly coveted Agile application development, data analytics and management, automation, cybersecurity, and cloud services to the government. Such capabilities were recently recognized by HHS when VersaTech was awarded an audio-visual technical, maintenance, and support service contract for the agency’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in April 2023. This firm has continually aligned its services within the health domain, having received a reported $38.6M from HHS for health and IT services since FY2019. As VersaTech continues to forge a name for itself in this domain, it is crucial to stay updated on its ongoing impact and groundbreaking achievements.

Softrams – Softrams, an 8(a)-certified business until 05/23/2029, recently outbid the competition for a reportedly $104.7M contract by HHS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) entitled Technology Solutions (CTS). This contract allows Softrams’ expertise in health-related services such as scalable health IT architecture, health plan management system development, salesforce health cloud, personalized care delivery, patient engagement, health analytics and reporting, healthcare operation optimization, and improvement healthcare delivery to flourish within the federal sphere. Furthermore, Softrams’ CEO was the winner of the FedHealthIT100 award, which honors individuals recognized for driving change and innovation within the federal health IT and consulting market, thus displaying this firm’s impact within federal healthcare. Softrams is evidently another small business that is a preferred choice for health IT services, not only within HHS but other agencies across government seeking comparable services.

Bitscopic – Bitscopic is at the forefront of small businesses providing unique healthcare services to federal government agencies such as VHA. Within June 2023, this company reportedly secured a notable $3.2M contract from this health-oriented agency to provide its office with crucial biorepository software services. Boasting an impressive array of desired services including critical healthcare data and analytics, early intervention opportunity identification, clinical decision support, and operations and insights analysis, Bitscopic has proved itself to be a standout choice for future health IT awards. Collaborating with Bitscopic would be a strategic partnership that can guarantee success and propel organizations forward in leveraging the potential of health IT solutions.

Vistra Communications – This SDVOSB vendor has achieved a significant milestone in supporting government agencies with health IT and information management (IM) support, having been awarded a commendable Bereaved Family Survey Services contract by VHA within March 2023. This organization’s capabilities that set it apart from the competition consist of website development, healthcare communications, public health data, health condition and prevention webinars, telehealth surveys, mental health services, healthcare delivery systems promotion, and suicide prevention conferences. With a reported $3M in prime awards from HHS and a reported $1M in prime awards from VHA since FY2019, it is evident that these capabilities have wowed government officials. As Vistra Communications continues to make strides in the federal contracting landscape, it is undoubtedly a vendor to take note of.

TekPro Support Services (TSS) – Emerging as a noteworthy firm in the health IT domain, TekPro is a well-positioned 8(a) certified ANC that offers solutions in the realm of network operations and maintenance, software support, systems administration, and records management. HHS has taken notice of this firm’s exceptional services and, as of May 2023, deemed it the sole vendor capable of supporting a reported $17.7M effort for Medicare Casework Support (MCS). This promising company will only continue to make significant advancements in health-related technological fields across the federal government, so be sure to keep an eye out for its next move.

Decisive Point Consulting Group (DPCG) – DPCG, a rising star in the health-oriented IT domain, has solidified its position as a leading SDVOSB capable of providing support to VHA. Within May 2023, DPCG outbid competitors for the Virtual Bedside contract reportedly valued at $3.8M, which will provide support services to the agency into 2027. The firm has a lengthy history of supporting VHA on such work, concurrently servicing a Patient Monitoring System and a Virtual Monitoring System for this customer. DPCG’s well-tailored capability portfolio pertinent to these efforts evidently impressed government stakeholders, boasting services such as health IT, patient monitoring, patient safety outcome improvement, telecare, DevOps, Agile development, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), and human-centered design. With this background, DPCG is rapidly gaining recognition as a key asset to federal healthcare organizations.

Metas Solutions – Revolutionizing the health IT landscape, this EDWOSB, 8(a) firm has triumphed in being deemed the sole vendor capable of supporting HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a game-changing $4.5M OCIO Portfolio Management contract as recently as April 2023, reportedly. This contract gives Metas Solutions the opportunity to unveil its salient IT and health informatics, integrated data repository, public health surveillance and vital statistics, International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding, statistical analysis, vaccine and immunization technical assistance, and public health program support services to pertinent health-oriented officials. With this recent win under its belt, Metas Solutions is poised to propel health IT contracting into new frontiers of innovation – and savvy firms should seek to rise along with it.

Agility Technologies – Agility Technologies, an 8(a) firm making full use of this designation, is breaking into the health IT market with a bang. The company has been awarded a contract by HHS National Institutes of Health (NIH) in May 2023 that is valued at $1.5M, reportedly, and provides the customer office with service-oriented IT architecture to support its business applications. Armed with coveted system integration, IT strategic planning, IV&V, application development, IT asset management, and penetration testing expertise, it is no wonder healthcare agencies within government have taken notice of Agility Technologies. As this vendor continues to pave its way into the health IT sphere, it will become a hot commodity for well-positioned teaming arrangements.

EM Key Solutions (EMKS) – Another SDVOSB company with incomparable health IT insight, EMKS is presently supporting VHA on a $1M medical coding services contract that demonstrates its health-related capabilities. Supporting critical missions across government with a spectrum of health IT support, medical services, and subject matter expertise, EMKS is proficient in capabilities pertaining to clinical systems, coding and billing systems, credentialing and privileging, electronic health records, health assessment and consulting services, enterprise data management and data repositories, medical coding, and system integration test engineering. Making a commendable impact in the federal contracting landscape, the health-focused services EMKS can provide are propelling them forward.

Monica CardonaJuly 10, 2023