Fulton-based Quality Associates Inc. (QAI) has been awarded a new contract with the Food and Drug Administration. With the contract, the company will digitize, index and consolidate approximately 20 million pages of documentation and materials at more than 20 FDA facilities across the United States.

Work on the five-year, $20 million project will begin immediately. The documentation relates to investigations and inspections conducted by the FDA. When complete, authorized FDA personnel will be able to search for and access specific documentation housed in a comprehensive digital document archive.