The Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a delivery order to The Rand Corporation on March 2, 2023, with a ceiling value of $1,204,406.33 for the IPAWS Public-RAND Survey evaluating Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system performance and public response to the 2023 presidential alert test. The order is cost-plus-fixed-fee and ultimately completed on March 1, 2024.
Place of performance is Santa Monica, CA. The survey work engaged Georgia TECH Research Corp (evaluation of WEA presidential alert test performance), National Opinion Research Center (survey conduct for the WEA test), Dynata LLC (data collection from 36,500 respondents, programming instruction validation, scripting, quota building, and data cleaning), and Ipsos Public Affairs (KnowledgePanel probability sampling, 25,000 completed surveys from adults 18+).
Government-invoiced labor totaled $385 thousand in FY2023 (0.6 FTEs, 1,222 contractor hours at $314.89/hr) and $820 thousand in FY2024 (0.7 FTEs, 1,526 contractor hours at $537.12/hr). The Rand Corporation self-performed all reported hours with no subcontractors recorded in SCI reporting. Pricing rose year-over-year from FY2023 to FY2024.