NIH Awards Sparksoft with a Prime Contract to provide Red Hat OpenShift Consulting Services

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Columbia, MD, June 23, 2023 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Sparksoft Corporation with a prime contract to provide Red Hat OpenShift consulting services for preliminary deployment to the National Institute Aging (NIA) Network Infrastructure Section (NIS). The NIA, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of NIH, leads the federal government in conducting and supporting research on aging and the health and well-being of older people. The Institute seeks to understand the nature of aging and the aging process, and diseases and conditions associated with growing older, to extend the healthy, active years of life. The NIA pursues this mission by funding extramural research at universities and medical centers across the United States and around the world; maintaining an active communications and outreach program; and conducting a vibrant intramural research program at NIA laboratories in Baltimore and Bethesda, Maryland. Alongside NIA grantees, the NIAs intramural and extramural scientists conduct and support broad scientific efforts focusing on aging research, age-related diseases, and supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults, extending the healthy, active years of life.

Under this contract, Sparksoft will architect and deploy a Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine cluster for a development environment to meet NIA’s needs with a solution to be deployed on virtual servers in a Vmware vCenter environment. Sparksoft will perform services that support the NIA objectives through the following tasks:

Logistics
Design
Storage
Networking
Dependencies
Documentation
Project Management

"It is truly a privilege to be such a trusted partner to our HHS clients, who are some of the most dedicated public servants leading transformational missions. It is never easy to break into a new agency and I am very excited to establish Sparksoft’s roots at the NIA” said Sparksoft’s President Ms. Siva Sivaraman. Sparksoft’s CEO, Mr. Mike Finkel stated that “We are honored and humbled that the government continues to trust us with support on some of the most mission-critical public health programs that impact our families and communities. Through our strategic partnership with Red Hat and deep healthcare domain expertise, we are able to quickly deliver highly qualified professionals and impactful solutions.” This award establishes Sparksoft as a preferred Red Hat system integrator for the Federal Government and expands Sparksoft’s footprint across HHS driving innovation through best of breed technologies on agency-wide programs like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Immunization Gateway; the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Marketplace Open Modernization and Optimization Technologies (MOMOT) to develop the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Multidimensional Insurance Data Analytics System (MIDAS), Federal Data Services Hub (Hub), as well as delivering other CMS ecosystem innovations such as providing highly secure and available access to over 50 integrated systems on Enterprise Portal Services (EPS), Medicare Payment Systems Modernization from legacy Mainframe and Cobol solution to a Microservices Architecture in the AWS Cloud on Medicare Integrated Systems Testing (MIST), and the HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System (HETS) modernization as the HETS Independent Testing Contractor (HITC). To learn more about Sparksoft’s role in supporting CMS with the ACA Marketplace during the Coronavirus pandemic, please visit https://www.sparksoftcorp.com/articles/sparksoft-supports-aca-marketplace.html.

About Sparksoft Corporation

Sparksoft is a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Services and Development Maturity Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000-1:2018, ISO 27001:2013, and Federal Wide Assurance for the Protection of Human Subjects certified consulting organization with a proven record of successfully delivering modern digital health solutions for more than a dozen Federal, State, and Commercial customers. As evidenced by our 20+ active prime contracts and subcontracts, and further supported by our excellent Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs), Sparksoft is a highly mature and capable partner trusted by the government and industry. We bring to bear the essential institutional knowledge, contract vehicles, certifications, experienced personnel, and process maturity to deliver the requirements in compliance with Federal regulations, industry best practices, and agency governance needs.

Through our focused mission “to ignite innovation, inspire transformation, and implement digital solutions for a healthier nation” we specialize in DevOps Delivery, Data Science, Contact Center Operations, and Test Automation. Since 2004, our exceptionally skilled people, proven leadership, and optimized processes all work together to relentlessly push for more efficient solutions for our HHS, Military Health, and Life Sciences clients. We have developed a support structure of Innovation Centers designed to collect our enterprise-wide lessons learned and identify project-specific opportunities for improvement. SparkLabs, where our Research & Development teams explore ideas and turn them into real-world solutions is an important impetus in our drive for innovation. We continually pull from our experience and combine this with forward-thinking technology from our certified partners like Red Hat, Microsoft, AWS, Okta, Google, Databricks, and ServiceNow to conceptualize novel and effective solutions such as our SparkLoader® RPA data pipeline, SparkGrid® Snowflake GUI, MockSpider® virtual sandbox, ScriptHive® for TDD/BDD automation, SparkMarker® website acceptance testing, and 508bee® for accessibility validation.

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