Purchase Order DOCYA132117SE0193

This is a $136,500 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, to J.D. Power, a for-profit market research and consumer analytics firm. The contract is for historical survey data and does not have a set-aside designation, indicating it was awarded through open competition.

J.D. Power has a significant track record of federal contracting, having secured awards from various agencies including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Customs and Border Protection, providing data and analytical services to support the agencies' research, evaluation, and improvement initiatives. This award to the BEA is for IT and telecom platform support services, specifically for database, mainframe, and middleware labor. J.D. Power also holds a $420,310 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration to provide an annual subscription to its National Pharmacy Study, allowing the VA and its Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy to benchmark their pharmacy services against private sector standards.