Disability Aging and Long-Term Care Analysis 2010-2016

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration awarded this Master IDIQ on August 2, 2010, to support policy research, planning, and evaluation activities for the Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP). Ordering closed on February 1, 2016, and the vehicle is no longer active for new task orders.

The vehicle funded 53 task orders with a combined potential value of $20.2 million, of which $20.1 million (99% of the potential value) has been obligated. Activity peaked during the vehicle's middle years, with 10 to 11 orders per year from 2012 through 2014, then declined sharply to nine orders in 2015 and one in 2016 after the ordering deadline approached. The most recent task order was awarded on September 22, 2016, following the vehicle's ordering closure.

Task orders funded research, evaluation, and analytical work on disability, aging, and long-term care policy topics including Medicaid expansion evaluation, behavioral health quality measures, dual-eligible beneficiaries, substance use disorder treatment, dementia care models, residential care regulations, and health information exchange in post-acute and long-term care settings. Work was performed on firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee bases, with individual order values typically ranging from $150 thousand to $1.5 million, though the single largest order—for behavioral health quality measures development—reached $3.9 million.

All 53 task orders carried unrestricted competition. Research Triangle Institute dominated the vehicle, winning 18 orders valued at $6.9 million (34% of combined potential value). Mathematica Inc. won six orders for $5.5 million; The Urban Institute won seven orders for $3.0 million; Truven Health Analytics LLC won six orders for $1.7 million; and Westat Inc. won five orders for $680 thousand. These five firms captured $17.7 million, or 88% of the vehicle's combined potential value. All task orders funded the single customer agency—ASPE—with no spillover to other HHS offices or federal agencies.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) awarded an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) for the purpose of providing the required services to ASPE in an effort to help them achieve their individual agency missions in a timely manner. Work under this vehicle supports the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and specifically the Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy's (DALTCP), planning, policy research, and evaluation activities.