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SRA Receives $26.3M Task Order for NIEHS Bioinformatics Project

Aug 20, 2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – SRA International said this week that it has received a task order from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences potentially worth $26.3 million, if all options under the contract are exercised.
 
The 3.5-year order, which is part of a contract awarded in May under NIEHS’ CIO-SP2i Contract, calls for SRA to provide enterprise-wide information technology support services for the institute. Specifically, SRA will provide IT infrastructure operations, applications development, and bioinformatics systems support for NIEHS.
 
Further terms of the contract were not disclosed.

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