The Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded IBM a 5-year, $77,154,583 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) from 2018 to 2023. HCUP involves collecting and distributing healthcare data sets and conducting related research and analysis to support public health surveillance and healthcare quality initiatives. As the prime contractor, IBM is responsible for overall project management and will utilize...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract valued at approximately $1 million to AHRQ itself for the AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Data Set. The single year contract is funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and will utilize the Government of the United States as the prime contractor. Performance will take place in Potomac, Maryland through August 2024....
This is a $526,638 time and materials delivery order contract awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. The contract is for NORC to provide services related to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), a major AHRQ program that collects and publishes data on hospital care in the United States. NORC, a large non-profit research organization, has extensive experience supporting federal...
The Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded a $160,619 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of DLH Holdings Corp., to establish a collection of Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Central Distributor data files. This sole-source award will support rapid response to requests for analyses to inform emerging public health issues, as AHRQ has a specific requirement to use the HCUP...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Health Care Cost Institute, Inc. (HCCI), a non-profit organization, to provide access to HCCI's private claims database for a one-year period with two additional option years. The total potential value of the contract is $107,500.00. This sole-source award was made under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 235 (C) (1), as CMS determined that HCCI's proprietary database...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to Most Investments, LLC, doing business as Pantheon Software, for $145,683.00. The award is for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), which provides state-specific healthcare data to the CDC. HCUP data includes information on hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and ambulatory care that allows for analysis at smaller geographic levels. The...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a $140,330.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of DLH Holdings Corp., to provide access to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) databases developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The HCUP databases contain patient-level healthcare data that will allow various CDC programs to monitor, identify, diagnose,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a $198,920 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to Fair Health Inc., a national non-profit organization that specializes in healthcare data analytics. The contract is for the delivery of healthcare claims data benchmarks, which will be used by HHS agencies to support analysis and decision-making, such as conducting audits and developing standardized fee schedules. Fair Health Inc. has extensive experience providing similar...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to Health Forum, Inc., a strategic business enterprise of the American Hospital Association, for $13,000.00 to provide an annual subscription to the American Hospital Association's Survey of Hospital Data. This hospital data, analytics, and subscription service supports the agency's efforts to track health care market trends and costs. The contract has no set-aside designation and is for the delivery of data related...
This is a $87,500.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to Health Care Cost Institute, Inc. (HCCI), a non-profit organization. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for the provision of the HCCI dataset. The contract supports the FTC's analysis of U.S. health care costs. HCCI has previously provided health care data to other federal agencies, including the Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis, as both a prime...