DHA Solicits Commercial Solutions to Modernize PEO DHMS Test Infrastructure
The Defense Health Agency is calling on commercial vendors to overhaul aging test infrastructure supporting PEO DHMS. By transitioning to firm-fixed-price, outcome-based contracts, the agency seeks to eliminate bloated, legacy hardware footprints and accelerate health IT deployments.
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has issued a solicitation calling on commercial industry to modernize and streamline the testing infrastructure supporting the Program Executive Office Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS). Over years of operational expansion and deferred hardware maintenance, the PEO DHMS Enterprise Systems Service (ESS) test environment has ballooned beyond actual program requirements. This accumulated technical debt has created an inefficient, aging footprint that delays software validation and inflates sustainment costs across military health IT programs.
To address these operational bottlenecks, DHA is pivoting toward commercial solutions and restructured procurement mechanics. Significantly, upcoming awards under this effort will strictly utilize firm-fixed-price contract structures tied directly to delivered operational outcomes, rather than traditional level-of-effort or labor-hour models. By shifting performance risk back to industry partners and requiring Phase 1 submissions by August 20, the agency aims to rapidly strip out unneeded legacy architecture, automate testing pipelines, and align infrastructure footprint with actual software development demand.
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