Market Transparency Project for Health IT Interoperability Services Cooperative Agreement Program

The Department of Health and Human Services Immediate Office of the Secretary funds cooperative agreements to develop market transparency tools for health IT interoperability services costs (CFDA 93.983), with the most recent grant award issued September 19, 2017.

This program is dormant. Only one cooperative agreement has been awarded under this listing since its inception, disbursed in 2017 with a completion date of September 2019. No grant awards have been issued in the past nine years, and no recent grant opportunities are posted. The most recent solicitation (NAP-AX-17-002) closed August 1, 2017.

The funded activity centered on developing an independent, open online resource—designed through market research—where health IT consumers, third-party app developers, and health IT vendors could voluntarily submit and access crowdsourced cost data for interoperability services. The platform was intended to address transparency gaps by collecting pricing information while managing confidentiality constraints and industry sensitivities around cost disclosure.

The single cooperative agreement awarded, 90AX0018, obligated $250 thousand in federal dollars. All funding comes through HHS's Immediate Office of the Secretary.

Eligibility extends to private nonprofit organizations, public nonprofit organizations, and for-profit organizations with demonstrated experience in health IT interoperability services, crowdsourced online tools, or both.

Pursuit of this program is not recommended. The nine-year gap since the last award, absence of posted solicitations, and completion of the funded project in 2019 indicate the program is inactive. Business development professionals should monitor for future opportunity postings on Grants.gov, but should prioritize other health IT or transparency initiatives with active, recent award cadences.