Leading global technology services company, EDS has been awarded a third task order under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Enterprise Data Center Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract vehicle. The potential value of the order is US$92 million.
Under the new task order, EDS will host applications that process Medicare claims for services at doctors' offices and hospitals in 12 states: California, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

EDS is one of three companies competing for task orders under the 10-year, $1.9 billion Enterprise Data Center (EDC) contract awarded in March 2006.
CMS is using the contract to consolidate data center operations supporting mainframe and client server applications. That work, currently performed at more than 20 different facilities, will be consolidated into four data centers, saving CMS hundreds of millions of dollars over the ten year contract period. "The Enterprise Data Centers will be the hub of the CMS IT infrastructure for the next decade and is central to its modernization initiatives," said Don Picard, EDS vice president of Federal Civilian Healthcare.