Dive Brief:
- Cerner and Accenture won the DoD EHR contract last month, which is expected to be worth more than $4.33 billion.
- Protests from losing bidders must be filed within 10 days of knowing the reason for the protest with the Government Accountability Office. None of the losing bidders decided to file a protest.
- The contract is initially for a two-year period, with a pair of three-year options and a possible two-year "award-term," for a potential 10-year contract.
Dive Insight:
The EHR project, called the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization procurement effort, will be used in 55 hospitals and 600 clinics across the nation. Allscripts spokeswoman Concetta DiFranco said, "After a debrief by the government, Allscripts, in consultation with CSC, HP, and our other partners, has decided not to protest the DHMSM award. We wish the program much success and look forward to working with the Leidos team to connect our 180,000 physicians in hospitals and physician practices across the country who see Military Health (System) patients every day with the new system as it is deployed."
Cowen and Company senior analyst, Charles Rhyee, told Modern Healthcare that no protest is obviously good news for Cerner shareholders, eliminating concerns of a challenge.