Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory and Inter-Agency Mission Support Project

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Procurement and Grants Office (PGO), and the National Center for Health Statistics located in Hyattsville, Maryland have a requirement for services to provide a comprehensive service to architect, manage, develop, operate, train, support, and assist systems and methods designed to support the CDC/NCHS/ORM/QDRL and the Inter Agency Steering Committee in performing their evolving missions though training, development, operation, support and services of systems and methods, providing domain augmentation services in the area of pre-fielded survey questions analysis and analytical reporting resulting in improvement of the overall process, methods, systems, and resulting findings related to survey question analysis. To perform this function, various methods are used to evaluate questions including: cognitive interviewing, focus groups, and usability testing. Respondents are recruited to participate in 1 hour or 1 ½ hour interview/focus groups and are given remuneration. Interviews and focus groups are audio or video recorded. On-line and internal applications are used to conduct evaluations. They include: Q-Video, Q-Notes, Q-Notes Plus and Q-Bank.
Q-Video is a digitized video/audio application that captures, stores, and indexes the video and audio of a cognitive interview at the questionnaire level in a digitized database for the purpose of searching individual questions and conducting analysis. All Q-Video tasks are done manually.

Q-Notes is a software program that supports the structured collection and analysis of cognitive interview data. Hence, it serves as an audit trail tracing each finding to the original source.

Q-Notes Plus in an extension of Q-Notes, where the actual interview is embedded within the application so that the findings can truly be traced to the original source.

Q-Bank (a product of an interagency collaboration and hosted by NCHS), is a database consisting of evaluated questions from Federal surveys and links each question to the scientific report that evaluated the survey question. Questions are searchable by survey title, question topic (e.g. income, demographic, chronic health conditions), information type (e.g. objective characteristics, behavioral reports, attitudes), response category (e.g. yes/no, open-ended, quantity), response error (e.g. problems with terms, recall problems). In addition, users can search for keywords within individual questions. Q-Bank is intended to help users of survey data interpret the survey questions on which the data are based and understand the potential errors that might be associated with these questions. A steering committee of representatives from various agencies directs the future and development of the database.
The period of performance will be a base period of 12 months plus four (4) 12 month option periods.

This requirement is 100% set-aside for small business concerns, including HUBzone ,8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-owned, Veteran-Owned, and small disadvantaged businesses. The solicitation document will be released on or about April 1, 2010. The anticipated award date is on or about May 17, 2010.

Additional details and requirements will be described in the solicitation. Only written requests, directly from the requestor, for this solicitation will be accepted upon opening date. Email requests will not be accepted. No telephone requests will be accepted during the presolicitation process.
The solicitation will also be posted within Fedbizopps upon the opening date. 

The applicable NAICS is 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services with a size standards in millions of dollars of $7.0.
Responses by Facsimile (Fax) will not be accepted. All Contractors/prospective Contractors must be registered with the Central Contractors Registration (www.ccr.gov) prior to award date. If not registered or active by that date, Contractor proposals will be considered non-responsive.