SIN: 874 3SERVICES shall provide expert consultation, assistance, and deliverables associated with all aspects of surveying within the context of mobis. Contractors shall assist with, and/or perform…

Ascellon Corporation, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business headquartered in Landover, Maryland, holds a Multiple Award Schedule contract with the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service with a ceiling value of $98.7 million and a performance period from April 25, 2006 through April 24, 2026. The contract establishes a governmentwide indefinite delivery vehicle enabling federal agencies to procure comprehensive survey and consultation services under Special Item Number 874. The scope encompasses all aspects of surveying within the context of the Medical Outcomes and Information Set, including survey planning, design, sampling methodology, development, pretest and pilot surveying, database administration, data validation and reliability assessment, survey administration using various collection methods, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. Deliverables include detailed technical reports containing results summaries with accompanying graphics and charts, descriptions of data collection and administration methodologies, sample characteristic assessments, non-response analysis, and briefings presenting findings and recommendations to federal stakeholders.

The contract has generated substantial task order activity across multiple federal agencies, primarily the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs, with individual delivery orders ranging from approximately $12,000 to $69.7 million. Task order work has focused on Life Safety Code surveys of Medicare and Medicaid certified healthcare facilities, federal monitoring and oversight of long-term care and psychiatric hospitals, State Veterans Homes compliance surveys, psychiatric hospital federal monitoring programs, grant evaluation support, and data validation initiatives. The contractor maintains a tiered labor rate structure documented in the current price list (Modification P0-0026, effective April 25, 2021) encompassing professional service roles including program managers, project managers, subject matter experts, statisticians, quality assurance analysts, and business systems analysts. Services are delivered on a time and materials or firm fixed price basis at locations nationwide, with primary places of performance in Maryland and distributed survey sites throughout the continental United States.

SIN: 874 3SERVICES shall provide expert consultation, assistance, and deliverables associated with all aspects of surveying within the context of mobis. Contractors shall assist with, and/or perform all phases of the survey process to include, but not limited to: planning survey design sampling; survey development, pretest/pilot surveying, defining and refining the agenda, survey database administration, assessing reliability and validity of data, determining proper survey data collection methodology, administering surveys using various types of data collection methods and analyses of quantitative and qualitative survey data. Productionof reports to include, but not limited to: description and summary of results with associated graphs, charts, and tables; description of data collection and survey administration methods; discussion of sample characteristics and the representative nature of data; analysis of non-response; and briefings of results to includediscussion of recommendations