Highrise Consulting Inc. was awarded a prime contract to provide operations and maintenance support for two dashboard systems, the SPReporter, and S10 Reporting. These systems assist in efficiently managing programs in the ORIP’s DCM and DCI and provide visibility into grant delivery schedules, budgets, reports, publications, and advanced data analytics, which allows ORIP management to evaluate performance against the Strategic Plan. The scope of this contract is to ensure that two ORIP dashboard systems continue to provide the required grant portfolio information in an easy and comprehensive way. As part of this contract, Highrise will enhance, operate, and maintain the Dashboards for easy access and use by program officers and staff for a period of 5 years. The contract was awarded via GSA MAS GWAC.

Highrise Consulting Inc. was awarded a $11MM prime contract to provide IT Systems and Application Development Support to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/The Office of AIDS Research (OAR). The scope of this contract is to provide a wide range of information technology services, including the administration and support for the on-premise and Cloud infrastructure, software development, maintenance of existing applications, Cloud migration, and user support.

OAR coordinates the scientific, budgetary, legislative, and policy elements of the NIH AIDS research program and serves as the principal liaison with HHS, other federal agencies, and domestic and international governmental and non-governmental organizations on behalf of NIH AIDS-related research. The contract was awarded via NITAAC’s CIO-SP3 GWAC.

Highrise Consulting Inc. was awarded a $144MM prime contract to provide Cloud and Systems Engineering Services to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Office of Extramural Research (OER) eRA program. The scope of this contract is to provide a wide range of information technology services, including systems engineering, architecture, cloud administration, infrastructure support, security, and testing for the eRA Enterprise Grant Management system. eRA program offers vital solutions to manage the receipt, processing, review, award reporting, and monitoring of over $39.6 billion in research and non-research grants awarded annually by NIH and other grantor agencies in support of the collective mission of improving human health. The eRA system is used by applicants and grantees at over 38,000 institutions worldwide. The contract was awarded via NITAAC’s CIO-SP3 GWAC.

Highrise has been awarded an $2.9M prime contract to provide support to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) HealthIT.gov and subdomain systems. The scope of this contract is to provide support for ONC’s external facing web properties including maintenance of Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, security and audit support, incident response and account management. ONC is the principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information and is part of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The contract was awarded via NITAAC’s CIO-SP3 GWAC.

We are pleased to announce that Roman Tokman will now serve as the Chief Operating Officer of Highrise Consulting. Roman was previously a Project Lead supporting the Cloud and Systems Engineering Support Services (CSESS) contract at NIH/eRA, leading a team of Operations staff through large-scale cloud migrations, cybersecurity audits and infrastructure projects.

In his new role, Roman will be responsible for overseeing Highrise’s daily operations and will work with the CEO and the Executive Team to execute the company’s strategy to provide our clients with the best-in-class information technology services.

Highrise Consulting, Inc. has been awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Electronic Research Administration (eRA) Grants Management System Support Services prime contract encompassing Service Desk, Communication, Documentation, Account Management, Partner Engagement Support, Functional Testing and Training support areas.   

eRA provides mission-critical IT infrastructure to manage the receipt, processing, review, award, and monitoring of more than $39.6 billion in research and non-research grants awarded ann​ually by federal grantor agencies. The eRA Service Desk team provides assistance with the entire grants management lifecycle and associated systems. The eRA Service Desk supports the agency users (NIH and partners including CDC, SAMHSA, FDA, VA, AHRQ), the review community, and applicant/grantee users from research institutions and service-based organizations around the world. 

Highrise Consulting, Inc. is committed to eRA’s mission success and to delivering outstanding eRA customer support.

Highrise Consulting has been awarded a prime seat on the CIO-SP3 vehicle as part of the on-ramp proposal submission back in 2016. Highrise covers all 10 tasks areas under the vehicle. The Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3 SB) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) is a 10-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract managed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC). This contract is designed to permit the Institutes and Centers (IC)s of NIH, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and all other federal agencies to acquire a wide range of information technology (IT) solutions and services as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101(b), and further clarified in the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. These IT services include health, health science, and biomedical-related IT services to meet scientific, health, administrative, operational, managerial, and information management requirements. The contract also contains general IT services partly because healthcare systems are increasingly integrated within a broader IT architecture, requiring a systems approach to their implementation and a sound infrastructure for their operation. The focus of this contract is to provide to government agencies a mechanism for streamlined ordering of required IT solutions and services at equitable and reasonable prices

On April 21, 2020, the NIH Electronic Research Administration (eRA) has successfully migrated its production environment with over 100 systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS). eRA is the first National Institutes of Health (NIH) enterprise system receiving Authority to Operate (ATO) in a cloud environment and achieving the successful transition to AWS. This significant cloud migration enabled eRA to improve systems performance, streamline operational efficiencies, eliminate capital expenditures, and increase program flexibility through the use of new platforms and services. It was the culmination of over two years of careful planning and preparation, which included cloud provider selection, security design, network architecture, cost management, extensive testing, and systems migration. The eRA Cloud migration, a direct result of a long-term partnership between Highrise and eRA, was a success because of technical leadership, execution and expertise provided by Highrise Consulting Inc. staff, and it affirms the company’s knowledge and experience managing large-scale cloud migration initiatives.

Highrise Consulting, Inc. was again awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Electronic Research Administration (eRA) Biomedical and Related Research Grant Application Support Services prime contract encompassing Service Desk, Communication, Documentation, Account Management, Partner Engagement Support, Functional Testing and Training support areas. eRA systems provide applicants, grantees and federal staff the tools necessary for electronic processing of grants. Used by NIH, AHRQ, CDC, FDA, SAMHSA and the VA, the eRA Commons and IMPACII systems support the full grants life cycle from receipt to award to closeout. Highrise Consulting, Inc. is committed to eRA’s mission success and to delivering outstanding eRA customer support.

Highrise has been awarded an $83MM prime contract to provide Cloud and Systems Engineering Services to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Office of Extramural Research (OER) electronic Research Administration (eRA) program. The scope of this contract is to provide a wide range of information technology and systems engineering, architecture, and cloud support professional services to support all modules of the eRA Enterprise Grant Management system throughout the enterprise software development lifecycle. eRA program offers vital solutions to manage the receipt, processing, review, award reporting and monitoring of over $30 billion in research and non-research grants awarded annually by NIH and other grantor agencies in support of the collective mission of improving human health. The eRA system is used by applicants and grantees at over 38,000 institutions worldwide.