Planning, Evaluation, and Analysis Task Order Contract (PEATOC)

Added: Nov 19, 2012 1:58 pm The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting proposals on a small business set-aside basis for a Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to perform program evaluations using the most appropriate methods and approaches for determining the effects of AHRQ's activities in specific populations as well as general knowledge transfer, diffusion, and adoption.

The solicitation and any documents relating to this requirement will only be available by downloading from the Internet through www.fedbizopps.gov. Interested Offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation and any subsequent amendments. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be available for downloading on or about 15 days after publication of this synopsis.

Upon award, competition of task orders will cover a wide range of planning and evaluation activities including:

1) preparing evaluation design studies and program evaluations using the most appropriate methods and approaches;
2) performing quick turnaround analyses such as secondary data analyses, literature reviews, and evaluation syntheses and meta-analyses;
3) performing longitudinal evaluations from an activity's inception through various milestones to outcomes, impacts, and adoption;
4) conducting economic, cost-benefit, and other types of cost-related analyses;
5) conducting legal and policy analyses and related types of studies;
6) developing and implementing customer satisfaction surveys; and,
7) conducting internal management and organizational studies.

AHRQ anticipates awarding multiple Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts under this solicitation, each for a period of five years.