NEISS On-Site Data Quality Evaluation

The Consumer Product Safety Commission established a Master IDIQ on September 27, 2018, to procure on-site data quality evaluation and training services for the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) at U.S. hospitals; ordering closed on September 25, 2019, and the vehicle is no longer active.

The scope comprises site visits to hospital Emergency Departments to conduct orientation, training, and evaluation of NEISS coding practices. Work includes review of data collection procedures, assessment of chart routing and record flow, coding quality review or training of new coders, exit interviews, and written evaluation reports submitted to CPSC. Contractors must demonstrate at least two years of extensive NEISS coding experience within the preceding four years, with a historical error rate below 6% for at least two of the last three years, and a reporting rate of 93% or higher as measured by an on-site evaluation within the preceding two calendar years.

Three individual contractors—Colucci, Raymond; Cam Business Consulting Corp; and Sommer Brandi J—each received five task orders out of 15 total awards, dividing the vehicle's combined potential value of $536 thousand equally across the prime base: Colucci, Raymond holds $192 thousand, Cam Business Consulting Corp holds $177 thousand, and Sommer Brandi J holds $167 thousand. Task-order awards were issued with firm fixed-price structures; individual order values range from approximately $17.6 thousand to $68 thousand. All 15 task orders are unrestricted and fully obligated. The sole customer is CPSC. Orders were placed consistently from September 2018 through September 2022 at a rate of three per year. Since the ordering deadline passed in September 2019 and no orders have been awarded since September 2022, this vehicle is closed to new work.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, Division of Hazard and Injury Data in the Directorate for Epidemiology, requires the services of a contractor to provide site visits in support of the evaluation of the quality of data collected in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). The contractor shall conduct orientation/evaluation and training visits in support of the data collection. The site visits at U.S. hospitals shall include meeting with Emergency Department staff to provide orientation, public relations, and examples of known product hazards. An extensive review of the NEISS coding at the hospital or training of new coders shall be conducted to include the evaluation of the record flow and routing of charts and the identification and coding of reportable records.