Valid Eval awarded GSA contract to help U.S. Army streamline and modernize acquisition process
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ASA(ALT) and AFC deploying Valid Eval software as part of an effort to improve inclusion of innovative commercial technology into the Army and the Department of Defense acquisition pipelines DENVER and WASHINGTON, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Valid Eval, a provider of secure SaaS platform solutions that help manage complex group evaluations with transparency, efficiency and accountability, announced today it was awarded the SBIR Phase III contract through the General Services Agency (GSA) to implement large-scale evaluation services for the Department of Defense (DoD) Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology [ASA(ALT)] in support of the U.S. Armys Applied Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program and the Armys xTech prize competition program. This contract award supports ASA(ALT) and the U.S. Army Futures Command, Army Research Laboratory by providing the Valid Eval tool and services to assist traditional source selection technical evaluators in assessing and selecting innovative defense technologies and solutions. The Valid Eval assessment and feedback tool was first piloted for xTechSearch in 2019, leading to its adoption for the Army SBIR program. Its secure SaaS platform works efficiently at virtually any scale to allow customers in the private and government sectors to involve a wide range of applicants, subjects, domain experts, and judges in evaluation and decision-making processes —all with an unprecedented degree of transparency, efficiency and accountability that builds trust in the process. Combining best practices from the learning sciences and systems engineering, Valid Eval delivers defensible, data driven results and provides robust reporting tools that help measure and monitor performance and demonstrate mission alignment.