October 3, 2003—VFA, Inc. has won a $5 million contract with the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED). Through the one-year agreement, VFA will provide BUMED its Capital Planning and Asset Management suite of offerings, including its Web-based software, VFA.facility, and facilities condition assessment services across more than 45 million square feet of space worldwide. Based on the discretion of the Navy, BUMED has the option to extend its contract and award additional work to VFA over the next four years.
This landmark contract signifies VFA’s largest win to date, and reinforces its position as the leading provider of capital planning software and assessment services to the U.S. federal government market. BUMED provides high quality healthcare services to 700,000 active duty Navy and Marine Corps members and to 2.6 million retired and family members while supporting contingency, humanitarian and joint operations around the world. The U.S. Navy’s medical agency is the latest addition to VFA’s growing roster of U.S. federal customers, which includes the General Services Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Association, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Institutes of Health. In addition to its achievements in the federal government market, VFA has also deployed its solutions at marquis institutions nationwide, from Fortune 500 companies and financial organizations to colleges and universities and state government agencies.
BUMED selected VFA based on the functionality and decision-support capabilities of its capital planning software. VFA.facility features built-in cost data from R.S. Means and enables users to create “what-if” funding scenarios, generate reports and easily access, analyze and update large amounts of facility data. The renowned Navy medical institution plans to leverage VFA.facility to enable increased communication among its sites and improve the accuracy of estimated costs of facility repair and maintenance projects. In addition to deploying VFA.facility at 45 sites worldwide, BUMED will use VFA’s facility assessment services to audit conditions of more than 45 million square feet of space. VFA will also work closely with BUMED to enable VFA.facility to interface directly with BUMED’s Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support software.
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