The Department of Interior (DoI) has awarded Accenture Federal Services a $250 million contract to support the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in operating and maintaining a cutting-edge mission services IT platform to ensure readiness for future challenges.
The 10-year contract involves implementing a mission services platform aimed at improving the bureau’s data accuracy, boosting employee efficiency, and enhancing citizen services.
“The agency is forging ahead with a modernization journey and developing a Mission Services Platform (MSP) designed to serve employees and customers for decades,” said Accenture Federal Services Managing Director and Department of the Interior Client Lead, Kathryn Larson, in a statement.
According to Larson, Accenture Federal Services plans to deliver “agile application services to create an architecture for the MSP that will improve data quality, enhance employee productivity, and transform the way citizen services are delivered.”
The overall goal of the DoI via this contract award is to streamline the management of the BLM’s more than 245 million acres of Federal land and 700 million acres of subsurface minerals.
According to Accenture, the company will use its “expertise in portal development, geospatial enablement, case management, agile delivery, human-centered design, and governance” to help the bureau accelerate its use of digital tools, and ultimately streamline the way it manages extensive jurisdiction.
