Company Will Support Training and Standards
Development
RESTON,
Va., Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF
(NASDAQ:ICFI), a global consulting and technology services
provider, was recently awarded a new single-award blanket purchase
agreement (BPA) by the U.S. Department of the Interior to help
modernize the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's
(NWCG) training systems and develop incident position
standards for the nation's professional wildland firefighters.
The BPA, which was awarded in the second quarter (Q2) of
2023, has a ceiling value of up to $30
million and a term of five years, including a one-year base
and four one-year options. In Q2, ICF was awarded its first task
order under the BPA valued at $2.78
million.
Under the BPA, ICF will combine its workforce development
and instructional design expertise with the company's leading-edge
learning technologies and advanced analytics to develop
performance-based training that will improve the readiness of the
nation's wildland firefighting force. This modernization is
part of NWCG's Incident Performance and Training Modernization
effort to provide high-quality training to wildland firefighters
and enable interagency interoperability within its 12-member
agencies and organizations.
"With wildfires increasing in number and intensity each year,
NWCG is making critical investments to improve interagency wildland
fire operations across federal, state, local, Tribal and
territorial partners," said Jennifer
Welham, ICF senior vice president for health, people and
human services. "ICF brings over 40 years of experience supporting
hundreds of workforce transformation programs. We are excited to
help NWCG achieve its mission of improving the effectiveness of
fire management programs across the U.S. through advanced
technology systems and innovative training approaches."
ICF takes a future-of-work approach to complex workforce
challenges with organizational learning and performance solutions
that help clients improve their people, processes and programs to
optimize performance at all levels. The company combines deep
domain expertise with leading-edge technologies, advanced analytics
and human-centered practices to help federal clients design
solutions and practical programs.
Read more about ICF's workforce
transformation services.
About ICF
ICF is a global consulting and
technology services company with approximately 9,000 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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"forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements may concern our
current expectations about our future results, plans, operations
and prospects and involve certain risks, including those related to
the government contracting industry generally; our particular
business, including our dependence on contracts with U.S. federal
government agencies; our ability to acquire and successfully
integrate businesses; and the effects of the novel coronavirus
disease (COVID-19), or any other future pandemic, and related
national, state and local government actions and reactions, on the
health of our staff and that of our clients, the continuity of our
and our clients' operations, our results of operations and our
outlook. These and other factors that could cause our actual
results to differ from those indicated in forward-looking
statements that are included in the "Risk Factors" section of our
securities filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The
forward-looking statements included herein are only made as of the
date hereof, and we specifically disclaim any obligation to update
these statements in the future.
Contact: Lauren
Dyke, lauren.dyke@ICF.com,
+1.571.373.5577
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