Ahead of its first birthday, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, is building out a $500 million contract for technical expertise its researchers will be able to tap in the future.

Since being formally established, ARPA-H has spent the last year setting up, and got its first director in September, Dr. Renee Wegrzyn.

“ARPA-H will create the transformative and collaborative space that is required to support the next generation of moonshots for health,” Wegrzyn said at the time, “Not only for complex diseases like cancer, but also systemic barriers like supply chain gaps and equitable access to breakthrough technologies and cures for everyone.”…

The agency plans to develop a multi-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, establishing a pre-vetted set of contractors from which ARPA-H program managers can tap as needed… Read the full article here.