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SCHEDULE OF DELIVERABLES
| Deliverable No. |
| Task No. |
| Description |
| Time After Date of Award (ADOA) |
| 1 |
| 1.a. |
| Kick-Off Meeting (by phone) |
| 7 days |
| 2 |
| 1.b. |
| Ongoing Communication (by phone) |
| As needed. |
| 3 |
| 1.c. |
| Quarterly Progress Reports |
| 15 days after Quarter |
| 4 |
| 3 |
| Research Plan |
| 21 days |
| 5 |
| 5.a. |
| Draft of Final Report |
| 10 Months |
| 6 |
| 2 |
| Meeting to Discuss Final Report |
| 11 Months |
| 7 |
| 5.b. |
| Final Report |
| 50 Weeks |
The final report shall be delivered to the CMS project officer in the three formats (paper/electronic) as stated below and in the required “electronic” formats to the fnlrpts@cms.hhs.gov mailbox:
| 1) | Paper, bound, in the number of copies specified; |
| 2) | Paper, unbound, suitable for use as cameraready copy; |
3) Electronic, as one file in Portable Document Format (PDF), as one file in Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML), and in Microsoft Word 2000 [for text] or Microsoft Excel [for tables]. Data tables must be in HTML and PDF formats as well. Charts and graphs must be in Graphical Interchange Format. Data files (spreadsheets, databases) must be made available primarily as comma-delimited or flat files, with proprietary file formats (Excel, Access) available as alternative downloads. Documents submitted in PDF must be prepared using Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (or subsequent versions) to assure compliance with the requirements of Section 508 (Rehabilitation Act) when placed on CMS’s Web site. More detailed guidelines for creation of internet-ready content are available on CMS’s Web site at http://www.cms.hhs.gov. (The Final Report shall conform to CMS’s Author’s Guidelines: Grants and Contracts Final Reports--http://www.cms.hhs.gov/research/author4.pdf.) In addition, the contractor shall provide a 200-word abstract/summary of the final report suitable for submission to the National Technical Information Service and include the following language in the Final Report:
