Work Will Accelerate Enterprise-wide
Modernization Efforts
RESTON,
Va., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National
Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently
awarded global consulting and technology services provider ICF
(NASDAQ:ICFI) a new $161 million task
order to provide digital modernization services. The task order,
which was the first awarded to the company under the Center for
Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) IT
blanket purchase agreement, has a term of five years, including a
six-month base and nine six-month options.
ICF will partner with CBIIT to deliver mission-focused
technology solutions and software-enabled services through its
Digital Services Center (DSC) to support the research, grants and
administrative needs of NCI divisions.
"The DSC will serve as a strategic hub, bringing together
numerous disparate systems to provide centralized access to the
data science, IT and data sharing tools needed by NCI staff and the
cancer research community to advance our knowledge of cancer to
improve health outcomes," said Mark
Lee, ICF executive vice president and chief technology
executive. "We are excited to partner with NCI to provide
strategic, pragmatic solutions to improve collaboration across
these organizations which will ultimately help CBIIT better achieve
its critical research mission."
In performing this work, the company will bring its unique
combination of deep health domain expertise and leading-edge
technology solutions plus extensive experience supporting NCI
programs to establish a strategy, roadmap and architecture to drive
innovation and optimization and accelerate the pace of NCI's
enterprise modernization efforts.
ICF combines deep domain and scientific expertise with
leading-edge technology solutions to help federal health clients
address their greatest challenges and design solutions that
increase understanding of disease causation and improve outcomes
for all populations. A leading provider of low-code, open-source
and cloud native solutions to federal agencies, ICF brings an
expansive ecosystem of platform partners and experienced digital
practices to rapidly deliver complex, scalable solutions that
achieve clients' mission outcomes and a step change in
productivity.
Read more about ICF's federal health and digital
modernization services and technology partnerships.
About ICF
ICF is a global consulting and technology
services company with approximately 9,000 full- and part-time
employees, but we are not your typical consultants. At ICF,
business analysts and policy specialists work together with digital
strategists, data scientists and creatives. We combine unmatched
industry expertise with cutting-edge engagement capabilities to
help organizations solve their most complex challenges. Since 1969,
public and private sector clients have worked with ICF to navigate
change and shape the future. Learn more at icf.com.
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Contact: Lauren Dyke,
lauren.dyke@ICF.com, +1.571.373.5577
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