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VA seeks contractors for paperless benefits system

Agency plans to award multiple contracts for the Paperless Initiative

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to award multiple contracts to continue developing a paperless system for delivering veterans’ benefits, according to an announcement on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site.

The contracts are to develop the technical data needed for the project called the Paperless Initiative. Contractors will also deliver, install and test the development environment, according to the announcement made July 9.

Under the initiative, five types of benefits issued by the Veterans Benefits Administration will be transitioned to a paperless system, according to the VA. The types of claims include: compensation and pension; education; vocational rehabilitation and employment; insurance; and loan guarantees.

Contractors will integrate and configure commercial technologies with custom developed software for the project, according to the VA.

The contracts will start in December 2010.

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Doug Beizer is a staff writer for Federal Computer Week.

Reader comments

Tue, Jul 28, 2009 DC

VA needs to look at the private sector before awarding contracts to contractors. Look at sites and organization that deals with claims and payments, like an insurance company this isn't rocket science.

Sat, Jul 25, 2009 K9USAFRet Vernon, Texas

The DVA has had years to modernize its IT system for benefits and has stalled, wasted money, committed fraud, and still nothing. As a disabled vet, as a semi-retired civil servant with sufficiently knowledgeable background in Finance and IT, this will not train VA adjudicators not to spoliate documents, or DVA IT, Compensation and Pension, Burial, Home Loan, and Education managers from finding reasons to delay, deny, and totally mismanage-ment claims. There is no system in the world that can stop unethical criminals from continuing to collect outrageous bonuses for denial of benefits earned by veterans serving their country.

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