Purchase Order 68HERC21P0017

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $303,048 firm fixed price purchase order to Urban Design 4 Health Inc. to develop a Health Impact Assessment plug-in for integrating into open source urban planning software. The plug-in will support EPA's air quality and health tracking efforts by allowing health impact analyses to be conducted within commonly used open source urban and regional planning programs. This award fulfills the agency's stated need under a pre-solicitation notice to create such a plug-in through a new contract for its National Public Health and Air Pollution Model project. Urban Design 4 Health will deliver the required tool as a prime contractor without a set aside designation. The company specializes in applied research at the intersection of urban design, transportation, air quality and public health. Funding comes from EPA's Office of Research and Development to further the goals of its air quality and public health programs.