DLH Holdings Corp. announced it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) multiple award contract to augment the Department of Veteran Affairs' efforts to design, develop, and test innovations in healthcare. As part of the Accelerating VA Innovation and Learning ("AVAIL") contract, DLH will compete with 17 prime awardees for individual task orders across five task categories: personalized healthcare, data transformation, digital care, immersive technology (extended reality solutions), and care and service delivery.

The multiple-award contract consists of a five-year base period and has a $650 million ceiling, in aggregate, for all awardees. Specific values will be allocated to contractors as task orders are competed and awarded. Under this contract, DLH may apply digital transformation capabilities - spanning artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data analytics, telehealth, modeling and simulation, and more - towards improving the advanced solutions available to Veterans, clinicians, and caregivers.