Schedule 70 adding sections for health IT, cybersecurity

The Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS) plans to issue a request for information in the next two weeks asking agencies and industry to comment on what needs to be included in a health IT SIN, according to Soundjata Carty, contracting officer at the ITS Office of IT Schedule Programs.

"For health IT, we're looking at things like interoperability and what actually makes health IT for both federal and civil health care," Carty said, noting the sector hit $6 billion in 2014, up 14 percent over the prior year. "We're looking to create a SIN for health IT so we have a central focal point where other agencies can go to get those needs. Currently it's available because we offer IT services but we wanted one place where that can be offered."

"The question is what determines health IT?" said Angela Bumbrey, IT Schedule 70 Business Programs and Analysis branch chief. "We had to look to see if we already had those services existing on the current schedules. Some of them are but it's not like they have a flashing neon sign saying 'health IT.'"