Vaccine Safety Datalink Project

The CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, established a Master IDIQ in 2012 for the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project with ordering authority that closed September 20, 2022—making this vehicle inactive for new task orders as of now. The vehicle supported vaccine safety monitoring, surveillance, active monitoring, and epidemiologic studies and evaluations through 98 task orders issued over its 10-year operating window, with a combined task-order potential value of $299.5 million and $149.4 million obligated (50% of potential value).

Ordering momentum declined sharply in the final two years: after averaging 7.5 orders per year from 2018 through 2021, only a single task order was awarded in 2022 ahead of the vehicle's closure. The most recent task order was issued on September 19, 2022, at the deadline itself. With no ordering window remaining, this vehicle is closed to new pursuit.

Competition is highly concentrated and structured around an integrated health system coalition. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals dominates with 60 orders totaling $137.6 million combined potential value; Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Of Washington holds 6 orders valued at $135.1 million, representing the vehicle's second-largest block; and Marshfield Clinic, Inc., Healthpartners Institute, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. hold the remainder. Together, Kaiser entities account for roughly 91% of combined potential value across the five primes. Task orders show no set-aside designations—all 98 orders were unrestricted competitive awards.

Customer concentration is extreme. CDC Pittsburgh placed 83 orders totaling $297.6 million combined potential value (nearly 99.4% of the vehicle's activity), with CDC Office of Acquisition Services placing the remaining 15 orders at $1.9 million. The vehicle was built to serve CDC's immunization safety operations with minimal external demand.

Task-order values ranged widely, from under $20,000 to as high as $135.1 million in potential value on large infrastructure contracts. Pricing structures mixed Cost No Fee, Firm Fixed Price, and Time and Materials models. Notable mega-orders included two infrastructure orders to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Of Washington and Marshfield Clinic in 2017 each exceeding $18 million in potential value, and a 2013 order to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care with a stated ceiling of $120.1 million (though obligated at only $55,136, suggesting a broad task-order architecture contract for future exercise).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP), Immunization Safety Office (ISO), has awarded a Master IDIQ for the VSD Project to obtain required services in support of vaccine safety monitoring and evaluation that meet public health priorities for CDC. Work performed under this contract is based on the following technical requirements: VSD Project infrastructure activities; Active surveillance and monitoring; and Epidemiologic studies and evaluations.