ASPE AHRQ and ONC Technical Services

The Department of Health and Human Services awarded this Master IDIQ on February 3, 2016, on behalf of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) for technical services research and policy support. The ordering period closed on March 31, 2021, and the vehicle is no longer accepting new task orders.

The vehicle is effectively inactive. The last task-order award occurred on September 30, 2021, nearly five years ago. Ordering momentum collapsed after the 2021 deadline: the vehicle averaged 5 orders per year from 2017 through 2020, then issued only 1 order in 2021 and none thereafter. Combined potential value across 25 total task orders is $38.6 million, with $18.7 million obligated (48 percent), indicating substantial work remains in closeout or completion phases.

Task orders span policy research and technical services across health care, long-term services and supports, and health information technology domains. Representative work includes transfer income modeling and data analytics, commercial insurance and electronic health record data acquisition, health information technology interoperability measurement, studies of medication-assisted treatment and opioid use disorder, caregiver demographics, and health care benefit design analysis. Pricing models are mixed: roughly two-thirds are firm fixed price, with the remainder time and materials or cost plus fixed fee.

The Urban Institute and Truven Health Analytics LLC dominate the contractor base, holding 7 and 5 awards respectively for a combined $28 million in potential value—approximately 72 percent of the vehicle total. Clinovations Government + Health, Inc. (4 orders, $4.7 million) ranks third; four other firms split the remainder. Nearly all work is unrestricted competitive; a single small-business task order represents the only set-aside award.

Customer concentration is extreme: the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration funded 24 of 25 task orders valued at $26.6 million combined potential. The Administration for Children and Families funded one order for $12 million.

Task orders typically range from $160 thousand to $7.9 million in ceiling value, with durations from one to approximately five years. No new competition should be anticipated under this vehicle.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Program Support Center, Acquisition Management Services has awarded a Master IDIQ on behalf of the Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) for technical services.