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NARTECH Leading Stabilization and Expansion of the HUD FHEO IT Systems and HEMS

January 2024

NARTech is playing a key role in stabilizing operations and expanding the business functionality of the HUD FHEO IT systems, including the HUD Enforcement Management System (HEMS), FHIP Performance Tracking, Fair Housing Discrimination Complaints (903 form) submissions, FHEO Program Compliance Data Visualization, FHEO SharePoint and internal/external web sites. Our work covers all application development and maintenance lifecycle phases, including definition, build, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance. Recently, NARTech has extended the functionality of HEMS with the Site-and-Neighborhood Standards (SNS) Checklist module using the Form.io tool as a low-code solution, reducing the implementation time for this 25+ page form from 6 months to 6 weeks without any additional labor or licensing costs. We are assisting the HUD FHEO in defining and implementing AI-based data analytics and operational improvement solutions. We use Scalable Agile Framework (SAFe) integrated with DevSecOps and our High Maturity CMMI-Development Level 5 practices for high-quality product delivery. Since NARTech’s return on this support contract, the HEMS application is back to having zero defect releases!


GSA awarded a new 20-year Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) to NARTech

April 2021

GSA awarded a new 20-year Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) to NARTech through a streamlined award process. This new MAS contract has a 5-year base and three 5-year option periods. It is a follow-on to NARTech’s previous GSA IT Schedule 70 that was awarded back in March 2005 and is now coming closer to its sunset. More information regarding this GSA MAS contract vehicle is provided under the NARTech’s Contract Vehicles page — see: Contract-Vehicles – NARTech, Inc. (nartechinc.com)



CMS SPARC IDIQ Contract Awarded to NARTech

February 2017

NARTech has been selected as a prime contractor for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Strategic Partner Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC) program. The CMS SPARC contract is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with $25 billion ceiling and a 10-year (5-year base and 5-year option) performance period. All orders less than $29 million (including options) will be reserved for small business pool. This contract will provide strategic, technical, and program management advice, guidance and support services to CMS to facilitate the modernization of business processes and supporting systems and their operations. These systems will include the Federal Healthcare Exchange and Medicare/Medicaid information technology systems. Range of services required under this contract include: Requirements, Design, Development, Testing, Maintenance and Operations support.






NARTech plays key role in major HUD initiative on Fair Housing compliance

July 2015

On July 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a final rule to equip communities that receive HUD funding with data and tools to help them meet long-standing fair housing obligations in their use of HUD funds. The final rule aims to provide all HUD program participants with clear guidelines and data they can use to achieve those goals. HUD’s rule clarifies and simplifies existing fair housing obligations and creates a streamlined Assessment of Fair Housing planning process, which will help communities analyze challenges to fair housing choice and establish their own goals and priorities to address the fair housing barriers in their community.





FHFA awards NARTech a 5-Year Application Development Support Services Contract

September 2013

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) awarded NARTech a 5-Year contract to provide Application Development Support Services for FHFA’s more than thirty (30) internally developed applications. These applications support FHFA’s mission to regulate and supervise Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and twelve (12) Federal Home Loan Banks.


NARTech awarded a 3-year IV&V contract by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

September 2013

NARTech, a CMMI Level 4 organization, is pleased to announce that they have been selected by HUD to provide Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) support services for the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Under this 3-year IV&V contract, NARTech will provide quality assurance and control services to support the successful implementation of HUD’s IT projects, systems and services, including solution development and delivery for the various program areas within the agency, using industry standards, such as PMBOK, CMMI and IEEE.



HUD OCIO recognizes NARTech for providing outstanding services on the Web Access Security System (WASS) contract

October 2012

In the HUD OCIO Solutions Newsletter cover page article, NARTech has been recognized for providing outstanding services in support of the Web Access Security System (WASS) – a critical path to HUD’s Success. System improvements implemented by NARTech team resulted in a 30% reduction in end-user service desk tickets thus making this year one of the smoothest filing seasons for 140,000 end-users over a last 10 year period.



NARTech won GSA STARS II contract

August 2011

NARTech won GSA STARS II contract award in three functional areas including: CIFA1 (Custom Programming Services), CAFA2 (Computer Systems Design Services), and CAFA4 (Other Computer Related Services).


NARTech won a prime position on the FAA eFAST contract vehicle

May 2011

NARTech won a prime position on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Electronic FAA Accelerated and Simplified Tasks (eFAST) contract vehicle for a 5-year period to provide services under functional areas including: Computer Systems Support (CSS), Computer/Information Systems Development (CSD), and Document & Training (D&T).


NARTech was awarded a 5-year prime contract

March 2011

NARTech was awarded a 5-year prime contract for providing full system development life cycle services for Web Access Security System (WASS). WASS serves as the single sign-on portal and provides a common framework for administering application-level security for over 35 HUD program area business application systems and over 140,000 external and 4,000 internal HUD end-users.


NARTech selected as prime IT provider for OGC

June 2010

NARTech was selected to provide Information Technology (IT) Services for the five (5) Office of General Counsel (OGC) application systems and the E-Discovery program. This involves maintenance as well as modernization and integration of OGC application systems to align with evolving business and technology refreshment needs.


NARTech staff completed Advanced E-Discovery Certifications

April 2010

NARTech staff completed Advanced Administration Certifications for the E-Discovery Clearwell tool set to assist our federal clients in implementation of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) for Information Management, Identification, Preservation, Collection, Review, Analysis, Production, and Presentation of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in support of Federal Rules of Civil Procedures (FRCP) Amendments.



NARTech team applauded for producing phenomenal results

November 2008

NARTech team applauded for producing phenomenal results in delivering collaboration solution using Agile/SCRUM development methodology with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) thus reducing software release cycle period from 6 months to 2 weeks in support of the Federal Government Regulatory Compliance and E-Discovery initiative for the Electronically Stored Information (ESI).


NARTech was recognized among the Top 50

October 2008

NARTech was recognized among the Top 50 most successful and fastest growing small businesses in the federal government market by Washington Technology for producing 72.42% compound annual growth rate over last 5 year period.







NARTech on the winning team of GSA ALLIANT

July 2007

NARTech started providing strategic business consultation for software engineering life cycle support and Enterprise Architecture IV&V to the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).



NARTech received prime contract

April 2007

NARTech received prime contract to provide application systems development, operations and maintenance support for the Enforcement Center Imaging, Management Reporting, and Integrated Tracking systems.






NARTech signed up to support FDIC ITAS

October 2005

NARTech signed up to support FDIC Information Technology Application Support (ITAS) program. Primary tasks included application support and maintenance of the supervisory and administrative systems.



NARTech began work on Configuration and Management Support contract

October 2004

NARTech began work on Configuration and Quality Management System task order assisting with requirement-based Independent Validation & Verification (IV&V) testing, software configuration management, and software quality assurance for over 40 mission-critical application systems.