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Adams Communication & Engineering Technology (ACET), Inc. has won its 2nd straight multi-billion dollar contract within a year. The first, awarded in July 2010, is the Rapid Response Third Generation (R2-3G), a $16.4B IDIQ contract with the Army's Communications and Electronics Command. Following that milestone, the Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of Information and Technology awarded ACET's Medical Systems Division a multiple award contract vehicle to provide comprehensive, world-wide IT support services and solutions to support both VA and non-VA customers. The Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) contract is the largest IT procurement in VA history. The five-year, $12 billion program ceiling is designed to meet a wide range of the VA IT modernization goals. This is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple-award task order (MATO) contract. Individual task orders shall be issued on a time-and-materials/labor hour, cost reimbursement, and/or firm-fixed-price (FFP) basis."T4 is a major tool in the transformation of VA into a 21st Century organization," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki in a statement. "These contracts will enable VA to acquire services for information technology programs that will help ensure timely delivery of health care and benefits to our Veterans."

This multibillion-dollar contract provides the VA a vehicle to address information technology needs - services, solutions, hardware and software for requirements that span the enterprise and fundamentally transform the organization. Claudine Adams, COO added, "ACET's Medical Systems Division will provide an impressive range of IT services and operations for the VA". The services include program management, strategy, enterprise architecture and planning support; systems and software engineering; software demonstration and deployment; test and evaluation; enterprise network services; IT management; cyber-security; operation and maintenance, and IT facilities. Charles Adams, ACET's CEO stated "Winning large and strategically important contracts is at the core of our corporate goals, We are extremely proud to be in a select group of small businesses that have been awarded more than one multi-billion dollar ID/IQ contract and to receive a T4 award. We are even more honored to serve US military veterans and their families."