Company Managing State's First
HUD-funded Wildfire Home Recovery
Efforts
RESTON,
Va., Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Oregon Housing and Community Services Department recently awarded
global consulting and technology services provider ICF
(NASDAQ:ICFI) a new contract to provide technology-enabled disaster
management and program implementation services to support wildfire
recovery efforts. The contract has a value of $23 million and a term of 64 months, including a
16-month base and four one-year option periods.
ICF will manage the state's first-ever federally funded housing
recovery programs designed to move wildfire survivors into safer,
more energy efficient and resilient homes and will support
infrastructure, planning and economic development initiatives. The
company will leverage its proprietary cloud-based technology
solutions, disasTRAX®, to help the state distribute $341 million in U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant-Disaster
Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding in a fast, equitable and complaint
manner.
ICF will also support the development of Oregon's statewide grant management system
through its customizable data visualization system, Waypoint™, to
expedite environmental reviews.
"We are committed to partnering with state and local officials
to deliver safe, affordable and resilient housing to survivors of
the 2020 Labor Day wildfires, which was the largest housing
disaster in recent Oregon
history," said Anne Choate, ICF
executive vice president for energy, environment and
infrastructure. "We will bring our decades of hands-on experience
managing billions in U.S. government grants and successfully
supporting large-scale disaster recovery programs to the contract
and work alongside our local partners to build community resilience
against future events."
ICF's disaster recovery and resilience experts will work
alongside local Oregon staff to
guide applicants through the entire grant process—from intake and
eligibility reviews, to completing initial damage assessments and
applicant documentation, through construction and closeout—to help
Oregonians, especially the most vulnerable, get into safe,
resilient and energy efficient housing.
An established leader in disaster recovery, ICF has been on the
ground for nearly every major natural disaster in recent U.S.
history with a stellar track record for completing complex projects
on time and without errors. For decades, ICF has successfully
supported recovery efforts in Puerto
Rico, Louisiana,
Texas, New Jersey, New
York, Georgia and more.
With over 20 years of partnership with HUD and the Federal
Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), ICF's community-based
teams have processed hundreds of thousands of applications and
compliantly distributed over $12
billion to property owners.
Read more about ICF's disaster management services and
enterprise technology solutions.
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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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
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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
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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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