Blanket Purchase Agreement GS10F0253V-75N98020A00031

The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations awarded a blanket purchase agreement to The Boston Consulting Group Inc. under the Professional Services Schedule. The prime contractor is providing consulting, advisory, and program management support services to assist multiple HHS agencies in their COVID-19 pandemic response efforts. Task orders issued against the agreement valued at approximately $163 million procure services related to supply chain management, vaccine distribution planning, Operation Warp Speed initiatives, diagnostic testing support, and decision analytics. Places of performance include Bethesda, Maryland; Rockville, Maryland; Washington D.C. The period of performance on task orders extends from March 2020 through September 2021, with services aligned to accelerate medical countermeasure development and coordinate complex cross-agency response programs under the Coronavirus national interest designation.

The original solicitation sought proposals to help HHS scale its delivery of emergency response programs through the COVID-19 crisis. Subsequent task orders obtained targeted consulting, including supply chain control tower support to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and program management assistance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health for vaccine distribution and administration logistics planning. No set-aside provisions or subcontracting arrangements were specified. The contracted advisory and analytical services aim to aid strategic pandemic response activities across the Department of Health and Human Services enterprise.