ATSDR Public Health Assessment Activities

CDC Pittsburgh's ATSDR Public Health Assessment Activities Master IDIQ, established September 12, 2012, with a $20 million shared ceiling, closed to new orders on September 11, 2017; this vehicle is no longer available for pursuit.

The vehicle contracted for environmental health assessment and surveillance work including public health studies, epidemiologic investigations, exposure assessments, dose reconstruction, and community health education supporting ATSDR's hazardous-waste and industrial-release mission. Task orders funded public health assessments, exposure investigations, community involvement programs, technical assistance on ATSDR comparison values, and analysis supporting ATSDR's Decision-Making/Chronic Health Indicator (DCHI) e-tool.

Twenty-nine task orders were issued between September 2012 and March 2018, generating $9.3 million in combined potential value with $8.7 million obligated (93% of potential). Order velocity averaged roughly five per year from 2014 through 2017, with a single order placed in 2018 after the ordering deadline had passed. Eastern Research Group Inc. captured the majority of activity with 19 orders totaling $7.7 million in potential value, while Tetra Tech, Inc. held 10 orders worth $1.6 million in potential value; no other primes were awarded.

All 29 orders were unrestricted (no set-aside designation). Funding split between CDC Pittsburgh directly (21 orders, $7.3 million in potential value) and the CDC Office of Acquisition Services (8 orders, $2 million in potential value). Task-order values ranged from approximately $20,000 to $1.1 million, with pricing structures including firm fixed price, time and materials, and cost-plus-fixed-fee arrangements. Order durations extended from months to multi-year periods, with completion dates primarily in 2016 through 2020.

The vehicle is closed to new ordering and all delivery orders have been completed as of 2018–2020.

The mission of ATSDR requires a broad spectrum of public health evaluations including environmental assessment, surveillance, and epidemiologic activities related to preventing or mitigating adverse health outcomes related to hazardous waste and industrial release exposure. As part of its mission, ATSDR is authorized to conduct public health assessment activities such as, but not limited to, public health studies, public health education, public health assessments and consultations, technical assistance, exposure investigations, modeling, exposure dose modeling, historic dose reconstruction, and related community outreach and health education activities.