Delivery Order HHSA290201000008I-HHSA29032007T

This is a federal contract award worth $4,322,216 to Health Research And Educational Trust (HRET), a non-profit organization, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) in intensive care units (ICUs) with persistently elevated infection rates. The contract is part of the Accelerating Change...

Rush University Medical Center was awarded a $502,185 firm fixed price definitive contract by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to evaluate the emergence of resistance and changes in clinical pathogens following the introduction of chlorhexidine bathing. Under the contract, Rush will conduct the requested evaluation and is supported by subcontractors Regents of the University of Michigan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. The originating...

The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a $509,990.00 definitive cost-no-fee contract to the University of Arizona (doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents) to provide research, administrative, and technical services. This contract has a period of performance ending on January 10, 2020 and was awarded on September 30, 2018. The contract did not utilize a set-aside designation. As subcontractors, The Ohio State University and Georgia...

This is a firm fixed price federal contract award made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the prime contractor Health Research And Educational Trust (HRET), a non-profit organization. The contract has a potential ceiling value of $6,861,148.42 and no set-aside designation. Through this contract, HRET is providing various publishing services related to healthcare research and information dissemination to support the mission of the CDC. The contract includes multiple...

This is a $3,790,206 Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services to the Health Research And Educational Trust (HRET), a non-profit organization, to implement the Team Stepps program. The contract supports the Department's Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks III (ACTION III) initiative. No set aside was used. As part of the work, HRET has subcontracted with several universities, including the University of...

Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International was awarded an $818,766 time and materials contract by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a qualitative clinical proficiency testing program. This award calls against RTI's Achieving Public Health Impact Through Research blanket purchase agreement, a vehicle established with no set-aside designation to streamline assistance for CDC and other HHS agencies. RTI will leverage its expertise...

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response awarded a $200,000 cost plus fixed fee delivery order to Pharmaceutical Research Associates Inc., doing business as PRA, for clinical studies network clinical trial planning and execution services. As part of its larger Clinical Studies Network indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle, this task order provides for clinical trial planning and management support. PRA will...

This federal contract was awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a civilian agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International), a non-profit research organization. The contract is for the "Development of Long-Term Care Hospital and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Experience of Care Surveys" (LTCH/IRF CAHPS), with a ceiling value of $3,225,613.59. It is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order issued...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a $536,346 definitive cost no fee contract to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Office of Sponsored Programs Division, doing business as Children's Memorial Hospital, to assess the molecular epidemiology of gas isolates among children. The prime contractor will perform work under Broad Agency Announcement Topic 22.1 to analyze the molecular epidemiology of bacterial isolates from children in order to help the Centers...

This $2,836,647 firm fixed-price delivery order was awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to conduct research on the comparative effectiveness of different intravenous iron formulations for patients with end-stage renal disease. The award was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and had a period of performance ending on July 14, 2013. UNC-CH has extensive experience managing...