CDC RISER Industry Day

The CDC is hosting an Industry Day for the Resources for the Improvement of Surveillance and Emergency Response Program (RISER). The program aims to ensure the availability and distribution of quality reference pathogens and other reagents to CDC and partner researchers for surveillance and public health responses. The primary core objectives of this contract include producing or acquiring high-quality stocks of reference pathogens, ensuring the reliable availability of reagents, sustaining operational capacity, establishing secure infrastructure for real-time data exchange, and enabling visualization of analysis outputs. • The contractor will be responsible for producing or acquiring high-quality stocks of reference pathogens and other reagents. • The contractor will ensure the reliable availability of these reagents to CDC, public health laboratory partners, and approved research collaborators. • The contractor will sustain the operational capacity to rapidly scale reagent acquisition, production, and distribution in support of domestic and global public health emergencies. • The contractor will establish and maintain secure infrastructure for real-time data exchange across contractors and with CDC. • The contractor will enable visualization of CDC-generated analysis outputs derived from RISER-submitted laboratory data in dashboard formats.