Urgent and Emerging Communication Support

CDC Pittsburgh awarded this Master IDIQ on September 11, 2017, for rapid communications services and technical assistance support to develop and execute integrated marketing services addressing environmental health urgent and emerging issues; ordering closed on September 9, 2022, and no new task orders may be placed against the vehicle.

The vehicle is no longer active for new competition. All 16 task orders awarded under the IDIQ have completed or are long closed; the most recent order was placed in September 2022. Combined task-order potential value reached $7.4 million, with $6.9 million obligated (94% utilization). Ordering momentum declined sharply in the final two years, dropping from four orders in 2018 to two in both 2021 and 2022.

Powell Strategies, LLC captured the largest share by potential value, with $5 million across five orders, while Communicatehealth Inc. held the most orders (nine) for a combined $2.1 million potential value. Two smaller firms—Rack-Wildner & Reese, Inc. and CSR Inc.—rounded out the awardee base with one order each. All 16 task orders funded CDC Pittsburgh programs; no other agencies placed orders against the vehicle.

The overwhelming majority of task orders (88 percent, or 14 of 16) carried no set-aside designation, with the remaining two designated for Total Small Business. Awarded work centered on specific environmental health campaigns and communications initiatives, including the "All Things Equal Campaign," water emergency communications, audience analysis, and general FY21–22 NCEH communications support. Task-order values ranged from roughly $25 thousand to $3.5 million, with pricing split between firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials structures. The largest single order, placed to Communicatehealth Inc. in September 2018 for urgent and emerging communicate health support, carried a ceiling value of $3.5 million and obligated $3.5 million.

This vehicle presents no current pursuit opportunity; it closed to new orders more than three years ago.

The Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Office of Communication (CDC NCEH/ATSDR OC) has awarded a Master IDIQ for Rapid Communications Services and Support for Sudden and Ongoing Environmental Health Urgent and Emerging Issues Technical Assistance Support. Services include technical assistance support to rapidly develop and execute integrated marketing services to meet its environmental health communication goals.