The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to PQA Inc., doing business as the Pharmacy Quality Alliance, a non-profit organization. The $208,800 contract is for PQA to provide measure specifications, maintenance, and technical support for several quality measures required as part of CMS's Quality Rating System (QRS) implementation, including Proportion of Days Covered (PDC) measures for blood pressure,...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order contract awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to the Emergency Care Research Institute (Ecri), a nonprofit organization. The contract, with a ceiling value of $350,000.00, is for "METHODS AND DISSEMINATION: COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE VALIDITY, CONSISTENCY, AND UTILITY OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS" and is part of the Evidence-based Practice Centers VI (EPC VI) multiple-award indefinite delivery vehicle (IDV). This...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract to PQA Inc., a non-profit organization, to provide measure specifications, measure maintenance, and technical support for several quality measures based on the Quality Rating System (QRS) measure set. The $214,200 contract has a period of performance from August 2023 to September 2024, with PQA delivering services from its Alexandria, Virginia headquarters. The contract was awarded through a...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract to PQA Inc., doing business as the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), a non-profit organization. The $214,200.00 contract is for PQA to provide measure specifications, maintenance, and technical support for the CMS Quality Rating System, which assesses and compares the performance of Qualified Health Plans. This is not a set-aside contract. PQA has...
This is a delivery order contract awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a non-profit organization that develops healthcare quality standards and performance measures. The purpose of this $11,415,091.00 firm-fixed-price contract is to provide technical assistance and conversion to the use of digital quality measures (DQMs). The contract is part of NCQA's Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) under the General Services...
This contract was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency, to Pragmatic Data LLC, a small disadvantaged business, for the recovery, health IT standards, and test methods analysis of the HL7 Quality Reporting Data Architecture (QRDA) standard. The $99,840 firm-fixed-price contract has a completion date of May 20, 2011. Pragmatic Data LLC is a software development company that has previously received several prime federal contracts from the Food...
This federal contract award was issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to PQA Inc., a non-profit organization that provides measure specifications, maintenance, and technical support for healthcare quality measures. The $140,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order was for PQA Quality Measures, which support CMS's Quality Rating System to assess and compare Qualified Health Plan performance. The contract has a performance period of one year, with PQA delivering services...
This is a task order awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to the National Quality Forum (NQF), a non-profit organization that provides expertise in healthcare quality measurement and improvement. The purpose of this task order is to convene a technical expert panel to determine the causes, nature, and extent of electronic health record (EHR) data quality issues. The contract has a ceiling value of $515,476.21 and a period of performance through December 31, 2020. No...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to PQA Inc., doing business as Pharmacy Quality Alliance, a non-profit organization, to provide measure specifications, measure maintenance, and technical support for several quality measures based on the Quality Rating System (QRS) measure set. This $214,200 contract has a period of performance from August 2024 to September 2025 and supports CMS's implementation of the QRS to assess and compare...
This is a federal contract award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to the Emergency Care Research Institute (Ecri), a nonprofit organization. The contract, valued at $205,710.59, is for "METHODS AND DISSEMINATION: COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE VALIDITY, CONSISTENCY, AND UTILITY OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS" under the Evidence-based Practice Centers V (EPC V) program. The contract is a cost plus fixed fee delivery order, with no set-aside designation. Ecri has a long...