The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to Westat, Inc., a for-profit professional services firm, with a potential value of $8,302,590. The contract aims to provide research support and technical assistance for EPA's environmental epidemiologic studies. Under this IDIQ, Westat has been issued multiple firm-fixed price and time-and-materials task orders to support a range of EPA research and development activities, including but not limited to: survey research, data collection and analysis, program evaluation, and information technology solutions. The task orders span topics such as cyanotoxin studies, human activity data analysis, cancer clinical trials support, and water quality and public health research. Westat will perform the majority of the work at its facility in Potomac, Maryland. No set-aside designations were used for any of the task orders issued to date under this IDIQ contract.
The original solicitation indicated that the EPA intended to award a 12-month base contract with four 12-month option periods, with an anticipated contract type of cost-plus-fixed-fee. The contract was competed on a full and open basis. Through the task orders, Westat is providing a variety of professional and technical services to support the EPA's research objectives in areas such as environmental epidemiology, public health, and environmental protection.
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