MARC plans to submit a proposal to the Public Interest Technology Infrastructure (PIT‑I) Fund, seeking up to $333,000 to develop a regional wastewater testing dashboard. The project would normalize publicly available wastewater testing data from multiple jurisdictions to create a consistent regional view of disease spread, potentially including a predictive analytics layer. The budget anticipates $200,000 in contractual services and $125,000 in staff costs, with the project managed by regional public health, data, and technology experts and a contracted subject matter expert if funded. This is still a proposal stage opportunity; vendors specializing in data integration, public health analytics, dashboards, and predictive modeling can position to support MARC’s team and public health partners in Missouri and Kansas once the PIT‑I Fund makes award decisions later in summer 2026.

Project would use already-public wastewater data; scope includes normalization, dashboard developmen...