Draft2:Accenture
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Accenture is a global management consulting and professional services firm that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services. A Fortune Global 500 company,[1] it has been incorporated in Dublin, Ireland, since 1 September 2009. In 2018, the company reported net revenues of $39.6 billion, with more than 459,000 employees[2] serving clients in more than 200 cities in 120 countries.[3] In 2015, the company had about 150,000 employees in India,[4] about 48,000 in the US,[5] and about 50,000 in the Philippines.[6] Accenture's current clients include 95 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500.[7]
DOE relevance
Office of the Chief Information Officer
Award
| USASpending.gov |
Accenture Federal Services has won a potential five-year, $2 billion blanket purchase agreement for enterprise IT and business support services to the Energy Department.
DOE awarded the pact on Nov. 30, 2018 via the General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70 vehicle and received six offers for the work, according to Federal Procurement Data System information.
The CIO Business Operations Support Services BPA covers broad IT and professional services related to cybersecurity, shared services, policy, shared services, maintenance, systems architecture and engineering.
Through the CIO Business Operations Support Services (CBOSS) BPA, the Energy Department is seeking to accelerate its modernization efforts with respect to IT systems and information assets. Accenture is performing data center operations and telecommunications support. Cybersecurity-related work includes risk and vulnerability assessment; plus continuous monitoring, diagnostics and incident response; policy development and implementation; training and supply chain risk management.
ActioNet was the incumbent having performed the work since 2012 under a sole source contract. ActioNet Inc. filed a protest on December 10, 2018 with the Government Accountability Office challenging the Energy Department’s decision to award the $2 billion CBOSS contract to Accenture. On March 5, 2019 GAO deny the protest.[8]
Status
The Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) is tracked on USASpending.gov using 89303019FIM000028 (Procurement Instrument Identifier)
Additional links
For more details, see:
- https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/04/energy-department-awards-2-billion-it-services-contract/156622/
- https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/accenture-federal-services-wins-it-contract-with-us-department-of-energy-valued-at-2-billion.htm
- https://washingtontechnology.com/2018/12/accentures-federal-arm-scores-2b-energy-it-win/349392/
- https://washingtontechnology.com/blogs/editors-notebook/2018/12/actionnet-accenture-protest.aspx
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is a central hub of data-intensive research, open-source software, and data science training programs at UC Berkeley.
Accenture’s Applied Intelligence (AAI) practice have a strategic relationship to support interdisciplinary research and training that will advance the field of data science. This collaboration aims to explore major social and scientific challenges, such as ethical AI, biomedicine, and environmental sustainability in California.[9][10]
BIDS programs and initiatives are designed to facilitate collaboration across an increasingly diverse and active data science community of domain experts from the life, social, and physical sciences, as well as methodological experts from computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics. Since its launch in 2013, BIDS has cultivated an environment of open inquiry and discovery for data-intensive research. As an integral part of UC Berkeley's Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), launched in 2019, we continue to seek new and creative ways to cross traditional academic boundaries and engage a diverse community of researchers representing a wide array of disciplines.
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External links
- company official website
- https://search.usa.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=enterprise_search&query=Accenture&commit=Search
- DOE moves ahead on $2B contract despite protest
References
- ↑ "Fortune Global 500 – The World's Biggest Companies - Accenture Profile 2011". CNN. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2011/snapshots/11019.html. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedQ4 - ↑ "Accenture Financial Statements 2015". Accenture.com. 24 September 2015. https://newsroom.accenture.com/subjects/financial-earnings/accenture-reports-very-strong-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-fiscal-2015-results.tekdownload. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
- ↑ "Accenture says India employees have to specialise". https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/accenture-says-india-employees-have-to-specialise-or-go/articleshow/65144526.cms.
- ↑ Marek, Lynne (27 February 2016). "Guess which Illinois company uses the most worker visas". Crain's Chicago Business. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160227/ISSUE01/302279994/guess-which-illinois-company-uses-the-most-worker-visas. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
- ↑ Mini Joseph Tejaswi (2012-07-18). "Accenture in India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-18/job-trends/32730373_1_accenture-india-core-biometric-identification-system-avinash-vashistha. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/berkeley-institute-data-science-and-accenture-applied-intelligence-announce-new-collaboration
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pioneering-future-together-accenture-applied-berkeley-chakraborty/