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CDC awards ICF $20M informatics and surveillance task order

By TechTaffy Desk

ICF was awarded a re-compete task order by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS) to support multiple aspects of its BioSense program, CDC’s cloud-based public health surveillance system.

The task order, which was awarded by the Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance (DHIS), has a value of $20 million and a term of one base year and two options years, said ICF in a statement.

ICF will provide expertise and support services to BioSense in the areas of surveillance, information management, technology and data management and analytics.

[Image courtesy: CDC]

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