MAS - Activate Research Inc. - GS00F428GA

1300 L Street, NW Suite 1000, Washington DC 20005 (202) 830 1671 www.activateresearch.net

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Federal Acquisition Service Authorized Federal Supply Schedule FSS Price List

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Multiple Award Schedule (MAS)

Large Category: Professional Services Subcategory: Business Administrative Services

Contract Number: GS-00F-428GA

For more information on ordering go to the following website:

https://www.gsa.gov/schedules

Contract Period: September 25, 2017 – Sep 24, 2027

Contractor: ACTIVATE RESEARCH, INC.

1300 L Street, N.W.

Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20005

Business Size: Woman-Owned SMALL Business

Telephone: (202) 830.1671 Web Site: https://www.activateresearch.net/ Email: dsparks@activateresearch.net Contract Administration: Dinah Sparks

Price list current as of Modification #PS-0022 effective June 14, 2024.

CUSTOMER INFORMATION:

1a. Table of Awarded Special Item Number(s) with appropriate cross-reference to page numbers:

SIN SIN Title

541611 Management and Financial Consulting, Acquisition and Grants

Management Support and Business Program and Project

Management Services

OLM Order Level Materials (OLM)

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1b. Identification of the lowest priced model number and lowest unit price for that model for each special item number awarded in the contract. This price is the Government price based on a unit of one, exclusive of any quantity/dollar volume, prompt payment, or any other concession affecting price. Those contracts that have unit prices based on the geographic location of the customer, should show the range of the lowest price, and cite the areas to which the prices apply. Not applicable

1c. If the Contractor is proposing hourly rates, a description of all corresponding commercial job titles, experience, functional responsibility, and education for those types of employees or subcontractors who will perform services shall be provided. If hourly rates are not applicable, indicate “Not applicable” for this item. See Price List

2. Maximum Order: $1,000,000.00

3. Minimum Order: $100.00

4. Geographic Coverage (delivery Area): Domestic only: 50 States, Washington, D.C., Territories

5. Point(s) of production (city, county, and state or foreign country): Same as company address

6. Discount from list prices or statement of net price: Government net prices (discounts already deducted). See Price List.

7. Quantity discounts:

Tier Threshold Amount Additional Discount

1 Single Task Orders of $300,000 or more

1%

8. Prompt payment terms: None. Information for Ordering Offices: Prompt payment terms cannot be negotiated out of the contractual agreement in exchange for other concessions.

9. Foreign items (list items by country of origin): None

10a. Time of Delivery (Contractor insert number of days): Specified on the Task Order

10b. Expedited Delivery: Contact Contractor

10c. Overnight and 2-day delivery: Contact Contractor

10d. Urgent Requirements: Contact Contractor

11. F.O.B Points(s): Destination

12a. Ordering Address(es): Same as company address

12b. Ordering procedures: See Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.405-3.

13. Payment address(es): Same as company address

14. Warranty provision.: Contractor’s Standard Commercial Warranty e3

15. Export Packing Charges (if applicable): Not applicable

16. Terms and conditions of rental, maintenance, and repair (if applicable): Not applicable

17. Terms and conditions of installation (if applicable): Not applicable

18a. Terms and conditions of repair parts (if applicable): Not applicable

18b. Terms and conditions for any other services (if applicable): Not Applicable

19. List of service and distribution points (if applicable): Not applicable

20. List of participating dealers (if applicable): Not applicable

21. Preventive maintenance (if applicable): Not applicable

22a.Special attributes: Not applicable

22b.Section 508 compliance: Section 508 compliance information is available on

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supplies and services. The ICT standards can be found at: www.Section508.gov. Not applicable

23. Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number: HV56U7ZK6VM7

24. Notification regarding registration in System for Award Management (SAM) database:

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Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS) Statement

The Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS) is applicable to this contract and as it applies to the entire Multiple Award Schedule and all services provided. While no specific labor categories have been identified as being subject to SCLS due to exemptions for professional employees (FAR 22.1101, 22.1102 and 29 CFR 541.300), this contract still maintains the provisions and protections for SCLS-eligible labor categories. If and/or when the Contractor adds SCLS labor categories/employees to the contract through the modification process, the Contractor must inform the Contracting Officer and establish a SCLS matrix identifying the GSA labor category titles, the occupational code, SCLS labor category titles, and applicable wage determination (WD) number. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of the contract.

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GSA Labor Category Descriptions

Executive Project Director The Executive Project Director provides leadership, strategic direction, and expertise to guide organizational performance. As the most senior advisor, the Executive Project Director oversees the strategic and/or technical direction of work, often across a range of projects; guides the development of strategies to maximize quality of output; ensures adherence to technical, cost, and scheduling requirements; and ensures adequate and appropriate resources.

• Possesses proven competence in qualitative and quantitative research techniques, concepts, and methods

• Understands systems for data collection, analysis, and management

• Allocates corporate resources and determines business strategies

• Oversees multiple large and/or complex research projects

− Reviews project schedules, arranges for needed staffing resources, provides guidance to project staff in study design and methodology, data collection, analytic approaches, and reporting

− Provides oversight of the Project Directors and Staff

− Assures appropriate execution of all major project activities

− Provides final review of project deliverables

− May serve as primary point of contact with client

• Enforces quality of projects in all phases

• Possesses a working knowledge of the government’s statutory and regulatory requirements that govern complex contracts and experience in providing services under such, to include compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and applicable information security requirements

Minimum Experience and Education: 10 years and PhD OR 13 years and Master's

Project Director II A Project Director II functions as the leader of multiple project teams, requiring complex analyses and/or multiple task orders for the duration of the project or contract.

• Provides strategic direction, project management, resource allocation, and technical guidance to project team

• Organizes, directs, coordinates, and supports the planning and execution of all project activities and deliverables

• Manages the performance of requirements of the tasks assigned under the contract

• Acts as liaison with the technical representative of the agency and partner organizations; may serve as primary contact for client

• Maintains quality control of project

• Has working knowledge of the government’s statutory and regulatory requirements that govern complex contracts and experience in providing services under such, to include compliance with applicable information security requirements

Minimum Experience and Education: 5 years and PhD OR 8 years and Master's e6

Project Director A Project Director is experienced in project management and team leadership.

• Oversees initiatives from strategy and planning phase to the deployment and reporting phases

• Ensures successful project completion within the scope and budget allotted

• Monitors workflows to ensure adherence to project schedule

• Implements quality assurance procedures and oversees quality control activities; diagnoses issues and develops solutions

• May serve as primary contact for clients

• Provides status updates to internal team and facilitates communication among team members and management

Minimum Experience and Education: 5 years and Master's

Senior Statistician II A Senior Statistician II performs complex statistical analyses and provides leadership to other statisticians on the team to carry out analytic work.

• Provides statistical and programming expertise, and quantitative data collection and analysis expertise, in support of social science research

• Demonstrates expertise in statistical programming packages, such as R, SAS, Stata, and SPSS

• Manages data collection efforts, including programming software

• Develops statistical findings from data sets, using multivariate and other advanced analytic techniques

• Explains and documents analytic findings from complex statistical models, and makes recommendations and provides alternative approaches to clients regarding analytic decisions

• Performs project management functions, coordinates with project manager and team members Minimum Experience and Education: 5 years and PhD OR 8 years and Master's OR 15 years and Bachelor's

Senior Statistician I A Senior Statistician I develops or applies statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information.

• Designs models for statistical analytical approaches to answer research questions

• Constructs analytic data sets

• Cleans and prepares data for analysis

• Demonstrates proficiency in statistical programming packages, such as R, SAS, Stata, and SPSS

• Performs complex statistical analyses, possessing the ability to explain and document analytic findings from complex statistical models

• Coordinates statistical work for the project across team members

• Reviews and conducts quality control on statistical products such as data products and analytic results

Minimum Experience and Education: 2 years and PhD OR 5 years and Master's OR 12 years and

Senior Statistician A Senior Statistician provides statistical and programming expertise to social science research.

• Has training in statistical programming packages, such R, SAS, Stata, and SPSS

• Develops statistical findings from data sets, using multivariate and other advanced analytic techniques

• Explains and documents analytic findings from complex statistical models, and makes recommendations and provides alternative approaches to clients regarding analytical decisions

Minimum Experience and Education: 10 years and Bachelor's e7

Data Scientist A Data Scientist applies emerging methods in data creation, analysis, and presentation to advance project goals and answer client inquiries.

• Works with team members to develop processes to capture and analyze a wide range of data elements

• Uses established and emerging methods to capture information, create data, and develop databases

• Leverages extensive proficiency with various programming languages to address complex data problems

• Creates sophisticated data displays and visualizations to disseminate data to a wide variety of audiences

Minimum Experience and Education: 2 years and Master's OR 4 years and Bachelor's

Research Scientist III A Research Scientist III directs research projects and provides high-level methodological or content-area expertise to inform project work

• Executes quantitative and qualitative research; analyzes data and produces a variety of research reports; conducts short-turnaround analyses; produces tables, charts, and graphs to support more complex analytic work; conducts technical reviews of reports and related publications; prepares literature and data documentation searches and reviews; and produces results of analyses in clear written form

• Utilizes qualitative and quantitative methods to design research studies, program assessment, and program evaluation

• Has substantial experience utilizing a variety of qualitative data collection methods including interviews, focus groups, case studies, content analysis, surveys, administrative data collection, field observations, and primary and secondary source document analysis

• Determines the appropriate methodology given a study’s design

• Assesses the validity of a study’s claims against its methods and data

• Manages research team members

• Provides quality control for research deliverables

• Works closely with Project Directors, Executive Project Director Minimum Experience and Education: 2 years and PhD OR 5 years and Master's

Research Scientist II A Research Scientist II applies methodological or content-area expertise for the completion of research activities.

• Works on quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods projects requiring data collection and analysis;

develops and maintains project management and collaboration tools

• Collects and analyzes qualitative or quantitative data

• Interprets analytic results in ways that align with rigorous methodological approaches

• Develops products to communicate findings

• Manages project tasks Minimum Experience and Education: 1 year and PhD OR 4 years and Master's OR 6 years and e8

Research Scientist I A Research Scientist I works under the direction of project leadership to conduct analyses.

• Supports research functions including data collection, interviewing, and/or creation of performance measurements to support project objectives

• Analyzes qualitative and quantitative data

• Provides research support on data collection, program evaluation, statistical analyses, and technical assistance projects

• Performs statistical tests to determine statistical significance of results

• Develops key findings Minimum Experience and Education: 1 year and Master's OR 3 years and Bachelor's

Research Scientist A Research Scientist provides research support on data collection, program evaluation, statistical analyses, technical assistance projects, and other projects as assigned.

• Assists with literature reviews and data documentation

• Supports statistical data analysis activities

• Supports preparation of reports including the development of statistical tables, charts, and graphs

• Conducts research through knowledge of technical resources Minimum Experience and Education: <1 year and Bachelor's

Graphic Designer A Graphic Designer applies their expertise to improve the appearance, accuracy, and readability of data in media, research instruments, and other deliverables.

• Applies design skills in both written and electronic formats

• Complies with industry standards and guidelines for the presentation of information

• Adheres to conceptual design as designated by client

• Demonstrates proficiency in areas such as graphic design, layout execution, and typography

• Prepares graphics for reports, proposals, recruitment materials, and other deliverables Minimum Experience and Education: 1 year and Associate’s

Technical Writer A Technical Writer prepares materials for publication and develops materials such as reports, memos, manuals and guides, summaries, proposals, and other deliverables to meet the needs of clients.

• Develops charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, and other visual supports to primary documents

• Synthesizes information and materials from a variety of persons and sources

• Reads, evaluates, and edits materials submitted for publication; and confers with authors regarding changes in content, style, or organization

• Uses relevant information and style guides to determine whether material complies with government standards and regulations

• Translates complex information into understandable language for target audiences Minimum Experience and Education: 2 years and Master's OR 4 years and Bachelor's e9

Publication Specialist (508) I A Publication Specialist (508) I prepares documents, reports, publications, and deliverables with the proper style, format, and compliance for Section 508 requirements and/or specific government agency requirements.

• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of Section 508 guidelines concerning the accessibility of electronic documents for persons with different kinds of disabilities

• Remediates and delivers fully 508-compliant files, including fillable forms

• Utilizes specialty accessibility technology such as CommonLook, Adobe Acrobat accessibility checkers, and JAWS screen reader

• Applies capabilities such as tagging and color contrast compliance

• Conducts quality control reviews and evaluations of materials and provides feedback and solutions for technical issues

• Has experience working with government agencies Minimum Experience and Education: 3 years and Bachelor’s

Senior Research Analyst A Senior Research Analyst has extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative research.

• Analyzes data and produces a variety of research reports

• Conducts short-turnaround analyses

• Produces tables, charts, and graphs to support more complex analytic work

• Conducts technical review of reports and related publications; prepares literature and data documentation searches and reviews; and produces results of analyses in clear written form

• Experience in designing and utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods in program assessment and evaluation.

• Utilizes a variety of qualitative data collection methods including interviews, focus groups, case studies, content analysis, surveys, field observations, and primary and secondary source document analysis

• Has the ability to be of assistance to the Program Director and lead other Research Analysts within the project

Minimum Experience and Education: 10 years and Master’s

Research Analyst / Editor A Research Analyst/Editor prepares materials for publication.

• Reads, evaluates, and edits manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication; and confers with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication

• Reviews text, rewrites, and edits to improve readability

• Edits according to style guides

• Confirms material complies with government standards and regulations.

Minimum Experience and Education: 3 years and Master’s e1

Mid-Level Research Analyst A Mid-Level Research Analyst has extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative research.

• Analyzes data and produces a variety of research reports

• Conducts short-turnaround analyses

• Produces tables, charts, and graphs to support more complex analytic work

• Conducts technical review of reports and related publications; prepares literature and data documentation searches and reviews; and produces results of analyses in clear written form

• Experience in designing and utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods in program assessment and evaluation.

• Utilizes a variety of qualitative data collection methods including interviews, focus groups, case studies, content analysis, surveys, field observations, and primary and secondary source document analysis

• Has the ability to be of assistance to Senior Analysts and Program Director Minimum Experience and Education: 5 years and Master’s

Junior Research Analyst A Junior Research Analyst has the ability to be of assistance to Senior Analyst or Mid-Level Analyst.

• Has experience working in data analysis and/or technical review

• Has experience with statistical work

• Has experience conducting analyses; producing tables, charts, and graphs to support more complex analytic work

• Produces the results of analyses in clear written form Minimum Experience and Education: 2 years and Bachelor’s

Publication Specialist (508) A Publication Specialist (508) prepares documents and publications for Section 508 requirements.

• Applies proper style, format, and compliance concerning the accessibility of electronic documents for persons with disabilities

Minimum Experience and Education: 2 years and Bachelor’s

The following education and labor experiences may be substituted for not having the required degree:

Degree Education/Experience

Substitutions Related Certificate Substitutions

Associate High School Diploma + 2 years’ experience

Trade/Vocational School or Technical Training or Military Training in relevant field or other industry certifications

Bachelor High School Diploma + 4 years additional experience OR Associate’s degree + 2 years additional experience OR 4 years relevant experience

Professional or Industry Standard Technical Certification in relevant field (e.g., PMP, MCSE, CCNP, CDNP, ICCP, ISSO, ISO9001, ISO27001, ITIL) or other industry certifications, as appropriate + 3.5 years relevant experience

Masters Bachelor’s degree + 2 years additional experience OR Associate’s degree + 6 years additional experience OR 8 years relevant experience

Professional or Industry Standard Technical Certification in relevant field (e.g., PMP, MCSE, CCNP, CDNP, ICCP, ISSO, ISO9001, ISO27001, ITIL) or other industry certifications, as appropriate + 7.5 years relevant experience

Doctorate Master’s degree + 3 years additional experience OR Bachelor’s degree + 5 years additional experience OR 10 years relevant experience

Professional or Industry Standard Technical Certification in relevant field (e.g., PMP, MCSE, CCNP, CDNP, ICCP, ISSO, ISO9001, ISO27001, ITIL) or other industry certifications, as appropriate + 9.5 years relevant experience

Final Pricing:

The GSA awarded hourly rates shown below include the Industrial Funding Fee (IFF) of 0.75% at Contractor Facility:

SIN

Awarded Labor Category

Hourly Price

Year 6

Hourly Price

Year 7

Hourly Price

Year 8

Hourly Price

Year 9

Hourly Price

Year 10 Oct

2022 – Sept

Oct 2023 –

Sept

Oct 2024 –

Sept

Oct 2025 –

Sept

Oct 2026 –

Sept

541611, OLM

Executive Project Director $258.67 $265.14 $271.77 $278.56 $285.52

541611, OLM

Project Director II $237.90 $243.85 $249.95 $256.20 $262.60

541611, OLM

Project Director $195.84 $200.73 $205.75 $210.89 $216.17

541611, OLM

Senior Statistician II $171.73 $176.02 $180.42 $184.93 $189.56

541611, OLM

Senior Statistician I $167.37 $171.55 $175.84 $180.24 $184.74

541611, OLM

Senior Statistician $118.58 $121.55 $124.59 $127.70 $130.89

541611, OLM

Data Scientist $137.80 $141.25 $144.78 $148.40 $152.11

541611, OLM

Research Scientist III $153.92 $157.77 $161.71 $165.75 $169.90

541611, OLM

Research Scientist II $143.66 $147.25 $150.93 $154.70 $158.57

541611, OLM

Research Scientist I $119.69 $122.68 $125.75 $128.89 $132.11

541611, OLM

Research Scientist $83.02 $85.10 $87.23 $89.41 $91.64

541611, OLM

Graphic Designer $105.12 $107.75 $110.44 $113.20 $116.03

541611, OLM

Technical Writer $139.96 $143.46 $147.05 $150.73 $154.49

541611, OLM

Publication Specialist (508) I

$98.01 $100.46 $102.97 $105.54 $108.18

541611, OLM

Senior Research Analyst $151.54 $155.33 $159.21 $163.19 $167.27

541611, OLM

Research Analyst / Editor $108.62 $111.33 $114.11 $116.97 $119.89

541611, OLM

Mid-Level Research Analyst $106.17 $108.83 $111.55 $114.33 $117.19

541611, OLM

Junior Research Analyst $87.64 $89.82 $92.08 $94.38 $96.74

541611, OLM

Publication Specialist (508) $71.80 $73.59 $75.43 $77.32 $79.25