This is a $4,847,787 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a non-profit research organization. The contract is for a feasibility study to inform a future impact evaluation of policy and practice under Title III, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The study involves data collection, analysis, and...
This is a task order awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education to the nonprofit organization WestEd. The purpose is to provide data analysis for the Federal TRIO Programs, which are authorized under Title IV, Part A, Subpart 2, Chapter 1 of the Higher Education Act of 1965. This is a firm fixed price contract with a ceiling value of $2,869,092.00 and a period of performance ending on August 29, 2026. The contract utilizes the Department of Education's Grants...
This is a $680,197.46 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Department of Labor's Office of Workers Compensation Program to Cpwr: The Center For Construction Research And Training for employment verification services. The contract has a base period of one year and four one-year option periods, with a total potential period of performance ending on September 28, 2026. The services required under this contract include conducting research into Department of Energy records to identify contractors...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a firm fixed price delivery order valued at approximately $539,000 to the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to examine National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) matching algorithms. Under the HRSA Evaluation Studies program, AIR will analyze existing NPDB data over a 14-month period ending December 2022 to assess the efficiency of the matching process used to link incoming queries to relevant reports. The goal is to ensure the...
This federal contract award is a delivery order under a larger Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), known as the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (CAMH) Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FFRDC) IDIQ. The prime contractor is The Mitre Corporation, a non-profit organization that operates FFRDCs and provides technical support to the U.S. government. The purpose of this $3,063,731.36...
This is a $4,056,248 delivery order contract awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design, and Analysis 2 (RMADA 2) contract vehicle. The contract is for the "Evaluation of the SUPPORT Act Section 1003 Demonstration Project to Increase Substance Use Provider Capacity". The prime contractor is International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), a large for-profit technology company. IBM has subcontracted portions of...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), a non-profit research organization, for "TAS Recovery Evaluation - State Health Information Exchanges" under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The contract has a ceiling value of $5,369,340.40 and a period of performance through September 30, 2015. NORC is the prime contractor and has leveraged its expertise in...
This is a $9,086,592.00 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a civilian agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), a non-profit organization. The contract is for the development of a system to enable voluntary public reporting of over-the-counter COVID-19 test results to federal and state public health agencies, with the goal of enhancing virus spread monitoring and...
This is a $2,328,785.37 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a non-profit research organization. The award is part of the Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design, and Analysis 2 (RMADA 2) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. AIR is the prime contractor and has two subcontractors: Grant Thornton LLP, a professional services...
OTHER FUNCTIONS CONTRACTOR SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTING AND ANALYZING INFORMATION ON THIRD-PARTY VERIFICATIONS SYSTEMS, DOCUMENTING CURRENT CAPACITY, RESOURCES, AND EXTENT TO WHICH STATES USE SUCH SYSTEMS, AND CONDUCTING A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS.