Delivery Order 140D0421D0007-140D0426F0446

The National Cancer Institute issued a delivery order to Essex Management LLC on May 15, 2026, under the Biomedical Information Technology, Software Development, and Informatics Support (BITSDIS) IDIQ with a ceiling value of $20,273,310.40 for Connect for Cancer Prevention Data System (C4CPDS) support.

BITSDIS is a $350 million time-and-materials IDIQ through August 2026 funding biomedical informatics consulting, application development, and project management. Place of performance is Bethesda, MD. The order extends through May 14, 2031. Work involves data system development and operational support for the National Cancer Institute's cancer prevention surveillance infrastructure. Essex is a privately held biomedical informatics firm based in Rockville, Maryland, and a subsidiary of The Emmes Company, LLC. The vendor operates as a full-and-open contractor with no set-aside designations and maintains deep specialization in cancer surveillance systems, clinical trial informatics, and research data infrastructure across three master IDIQs with NCI.