Leidos wins NIH NHLBI CSR Software Development and NICHD Systems support tasks

G2X TAKE: Leidos, a global leader in the integration and application of IT, engineering, and science, and a longtime partner to NIH, recently added a pair of new awards in support of the National Institutes of Health. 

For the first, Leidos was recently awarded a 32-month $12.5M task with the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to provide CSR Software Development and Technical Support. The task was awarded using CIO-SP3.

For the second award, Leidos scored a 3-year contract with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to provide maintenance and enhancement of 2 systems of record – DS-Connect and PregSource online registries maintenance of RDPR and the creation of additional registries. The contract was awarded using GSA IT-70.

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• These recent wins only add to the extensive history Leidos has supporting the National Institutes of Health in the development of solutions in areas such as biomedical research, public health and health analytics, to include having been awarded a significant $150M eRA Software Design and Development task this time last year and a Prime award on a $214M BPA in support of emerging NIH NHLBI IT requirements the year before that. 
• In the Summer of 2019 Leidos tapped Edouard Benjamin to serve as Vice President of Business Development, Government Health and Safety Solutions with a focus on establishing and managing customer relationships and the pipeline of opportunities for business growth in the operating divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) including CMS, NIH, FDA, CDC, and others. Early this year Leidos promoted Scott Weigel to serve as a Principal Capture Manager supporting the Government Health and Safety Solutions unit. 
• Leidos was recently named to the updated list of NXT UP firms poised to make big waves in the Federal sector in 2020 and for years to come.