Qualitative Inqury Methods for HIV Prevention Care and Treatment

This vehicle is closed to new orders and no longer pursues-worthy. CDC Pittsburgh awarded this Master IDIQ on September 17, 2013, with a $15 million shared ceiling for qualitative research services supporting HIV prevention, care, and treatment policy and program development. The last date to order against the vehicle was September 16, 2018—now nearly eight years in the past—making it unavailable for new work.

The vehicle was fully set aside for small business at the vehicle level and established as a five-year contract with a one-year base and four one-year option periods. Ordering closed before the full potential value could be exhausted: 12 task orders were awarded over five years of active ordering, with combined potential value of $8.5 million against the $15 million ceiling. Of that $8.5 million in potential value, $5.5 million (65 percent) has been obligated, leaving approximately $2.5 million in unexercised task-order ceilings. The ordering pattern was steady at roughly two orders per year from 2014 through 2018.

Competitive concentration is high. Research Support Services holds nine of the 12 orders and $4.7 million in combined potential value; Atlas Research LLC holds the remaining three orders and $3.8 million. These two firms capture the entirety of awarded work. Customer concentration is absolute—all 12 orders funded CDC Pittsburgh programs, with no interagency ordering.

Task orders ranged from approximately $139,500 to $3.4 million in ceiling value, with most firm fixed price orders in the $400,000 to $770,000 range. The largest order, HHSD200201357339I-HHSD2002013573390003, carried a $3.4 million ceiling with only $399,816 obligated, suggesting either descoped performance or contract modification. Performance periods typically spanned one to three years from award.

This vehicle presents no current opportunity; pursue only if researching the historical vehicle family or assessing CDC's approach to qualitative research contracting.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for HIV/AIDS, STD, Viral Hepatitis, and TB Prevention has awarded a Master IDIQ for Qualitative Inquiry Methods to Understand Issues in HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment in the United States. Services performed under the IDIQ contract will be to conduct qualitative inquiry methods to help answer timely questions related to HIV prevention, and to use the findings to strengthen existing and future HIV prevention efforts.