Pandemic Ready Interoperability Modernization Effort And Data Modernization Initiative (PRIME)

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs established a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement on September 23, 2022, with a shared ceiling of $96.4 million to provide lifecycle agile development, human-centered design, and DevSecOps support for the Pandemic Ready Interoperability Modernization Effort (PRIME) and the Data Modernization Initiative (DMI). The ordering period closed on September 22, 2023; no new orders may be placed against this vehicle.

Four task orders have been awarded under the BPA with a combined potential value of $94 million, of which $39.7 million (42% of potential value) has been obligated. The most recent order was issued on September 30, 2024, indicating sustained customer demand through late 2024. Orders average roughly one per year, with two issued in 2023 and one each in 2022 and 2024.

All four orders support ReportStream, Enterprise Data Exchange (DEX), and EpiSync initiatives — infrastructure and data-modernization work for pandemic preparedness and disease surveillance. All task orders are time-and-materials, unrestricted (no set-aside), and issued to the same customer organization. Typical order ceilings range from $5.2 million to $45.1 million; typical obligated amounts range from $4.9 million to $16.2 million.

Competition is concentrated among three primes. Fearless Solutions, LLC and Nava PBC hold the largest combined potential values at $45.1 million and $43.7 million respectively; Nava has won two orders while Fearless and Skylight Inc. have each won one. Fearless and Nava together represent 95% of combined potential value across the vehicle.

All four task orders carry performance completion dates between September 2025 and September 2027, with the oldest order completing this fiscal year. The vehicle itself is expired for new orders, but existing task orders remain active through 2027.

Multiple-award blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide lifecycle agile development, human-centered design and DevSecOps support necessary for CDC to achieve the objective of building and scaling a flexible infrastructure that facilitates the streamlined flow of high quality, actionable data through the initiatives that make up Pandemic Ready Interoperability Modernization Effort (PRIME), as well as to more broadly modernize the CDC's data and technology through the Data Modernization Initiative (DMI)