Owings Mills Nonprofit Leader Says CDC Stole Her Vaccine Tracker

WASHINGTON, DC — The executive director of an Owings Mills-based nonprofit organization is accusing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and consulting firm Deloitte of stealing her idea for a mass vaccination tracking system.

Tiffany Tate, executive director of the Maryland Partnership for Prevention, made the allegation in a cease-and-desist letter obtained by The New York Times.

The CDC had expressed interest in buying Tate’s system, called PrepMod, but the Trump administration instead awarded the first of two no-bid contracts worth up to $44 million to Deloitte, tasking the company to create a system that would help patients register to be immunized and states collect detailed data on vaccine recipients.

In the cease-and-desist letter, lawyers for Tate allege that she presented her software multiple times to representatives of the CDC and Deloitte, offering to license it for $15 million, a third of what the CDC committed to pay Deloitte. The CDC expressed interest in buying it but opted to move forward without a competitive bidding process.

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