Accenture Federal Services & Criterion Systems Awarded Position on US Department of Agriculture IT Support Services Blanket P...
October 28 2020 - 6:59AM
Business Wire
Accenture Federal Services (AFS), a subsidiary of Accenture
(NYSE: ACN), and Criterion Systems Inc. have been awarded a spot on
the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) Information Technology
Support Services (DAITSS) contract, which aims to streamline
enterprise information technology (IT) support services and
centralize procurement functions.
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Elaine Turville, a managing director and
Accenture Federal Services USDA client account lead (Photo:
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Issued by the U.S. Forest Service and available to all USDA
agencies, the blanket purchase agreement (BPA) has an estimated
value of $450 million and a five-year performance period.
Working under a contractor teaming arrangement, AFS and
Criterion Systems will provide the USDA with a broad range of IT
services, including strategic IT management support, hosting/cloud
support, website and application support, software and hardware
support, administration support, and IT security and compliance
services.
“This is a great opportunity to help the USDA advance its use of
tested commercial technologies to improve IT services,” said Elaine
Turville, an AFS managing director and the company’s client account
lead for the USDA. “Improvements made to the USDA’s IT services can
also help lead the way for the use of other advanced technologies,
including artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and
machine learning.”
Promod Sharma, Criterion Systems’ president and CEO, said,
“Criterion is proud to add the DAITSS BPA to the contract vehicles
we already have with the USDA. We are confident that USDA will
benefit from the combined efforts of two proven USDA contractors to
deliver critical cybersecurity, infrastructure support, and cloud
services across the Department. Having supported the USDA since
2014, we look forward to collaborating with Accenture Federal
Services to grow our footprint in this important agency.”
Barrett Witkin, a managing director at AFS, said, “We are
honored to serve an organization full of hard-working heroes,
including more than 10,000 wildland firefighters. We are eager to
bring Accenture’s best to empower the Forest Service’s passionate,
mission-focused employees — whether that be our aerospace industry
insights or Industry X.0 capabilities, which include the internet
of things, mobile-at-the-edge, machine learning and analytics
technologies.”
Accenture Federal Services has worked on some of the USDA’s most
mission-critical IT projects, including the Farmers.gov portal, Ask
USDA, and the Chief Executive Officer (CXO) Dashboards. Farmers.gov
enables more seamless, convenient, and efficient customer
interactions with the USDA and empowers its employees to deliver
these valuable services. Ask USDA was designed to address the
diverse needs of USDA’s customer base including contact by phone,
email, web form, live chat, and 24/7 self-service tools. Through
the deployment of more than 200 Executive dashboards, Accenture is
equipping USDA agencies and staff offices with critical data to
support informed decision-making at scale.
Criterion develops, enhances, maintains, and provides Tier 2 and
3 applications support for more than a dozen U.S. Forest Service
Fire and Aviation Management applications, supporting users across
the Inter-Agency Fire Community. Criterion also delivers
software/hardware/applications services to the USDA Digital
Infrastructure Services Center to enhance and secure commercial
cloud capability, increase cloud adoption, and improve customer
experience across all USDA agencies.
About Criterion Systems Criterion Systems, Inc.
(Criterion) is a systems integrator and cyber operations-focused
company. Since 2005, we have provided cybersecurity, cloud/data
center management, IT infrastructure operations, and systems
engineering across our nation’s mission-critical environments.
Criterion has achieved Capability Maturity Model Integration
CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC Level 3 ratings and is an International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001-2015, ISO 20000-1:2011,
and ISO 27001:2013 certified company. Criterion is headquartered in
Vienna, VA, with sites across the U.S. For more information,
https://www.criterion-sys.com.
About Accenture Federal Services Accenture Federal
Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, is a U.S.
company with offices in Arlington, Virginia. Accenture’s federal
business has served every cabinet-level department and 30 of the
largest federal organizations. Accenture Federal Services
transforms bold ideas into breakthrough outcomes for clients at
defense, intelligence, public safety, civilian and military health
organizations. Learn more here
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