DLHC - DLH to Provide Information Technology Services to the National Cancer Institute | Benzinga
ATLANTA, March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DLH Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:DLHC) ("DLH" or the "Company"), a leading Health IT provider of digital transformation and cybersecurity, science research and development, and systems engineering and integration, today announced that it has been awarded a contract to continue and expand its user-experience, technology refresh and IT services for the National Institutes of Health's ("NIH") National Cancer Institute ("NCI"). NCI, the largest institute under NIH, is the federal government's principal agency for cancer research, training, and health information dissemination.
"This new award extends DLH's longstanding partnership with NCI's Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology ("CBIIT") by providing scientific computing and informatics to support NCI's research mission," said Zach Parker, President and Chief Executive Officer of DLH. The contract was competitively awarded through the multiple-award blanket purchase agreement with CBIIT that the Company announced in February 2023. Including the base period and all option periods, the contract has a value of approximately $52 million over a performance period of five and a half years. Furthermore, the award includes provisions for an additional $86 million in optional IT services. If fully exercised, the potential maximum contract value would be $138 million.
Through this work, DLH will provide IT services for nearly 7,000 NCI employees, on matters ranging from hardware configuration to software management strategies, ServiceNow functions, network connectivity, desktop data protection, desktop platform engineering, technology refresh, and more. The Company will leverage its world-class IT systems expertise and advanced solution set to efficiently resolve customer service ...