Davis Research LLC

Davis Research LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Calabasas, California, conducts multimodal survey research, data collection, and analysis for federal agencies as a prime contractor (90% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on longitudinal mental health research programs. The firm operates as a limited liability partnership with a narrow specialization in market research, survey design, and veteran-focused health services evaluation, competing predominantly under small-business set-asides on purchase orders and delivery orders valued under $360 thousand per award.

Davis Research's customer footprint is dominated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which accounts for 87% of recent awards across multiple VISNs (Veterans Integrated Service Networks). The top two customers by award count—VISN 22 and VISN 20—collectively represent 15 awards and $3.5 million in combined potential value. By potential dollars, however, the GSA Federal Acquisition Service ranks first with $2.9 million across two awards on the VA Multiple Award Schedule, while the VA VISNs follow closely. This divergence reflects Davis Research's presence on the VA's MAS vehicle as well as its direct prime purchase-order relationships with individual VISNs. The Office of the Secretary of Defense accounts for three awards, routed through subcontracts rather than direct prime relationships.

Recent prime work includes a $127 thousand total small-business set-aside purchase order awarded August 28, 2026 by VA VISN 20 for survey services for women's healthcare research—the most recent award in the source—encompassing IRB approval, survey programming with complex skip logic, recruitment of approximately 3,600 survey responses, and call-center support across U.S. time zones. Earlier examples include a $257,174 total small-business purchase order from VISN 6 (September 2023) for caregiver support services validation, a $359,551 total small-business purchase order from VISN 20 (July 2022) for telepain management survey implementation and data processing, and a $327,540 total small-business purchase order from VISN 20 (March 2022) for a two-year, 14,000-veteran survey on gender-affirming surgeries and healthcare topics. Davis Research holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with VISN 2 valued at $93,582.96 and expiring September 29, 2025, providing flexible task-order delivery of multimodal survey services. On the VA MAS, the firm places delivery orders valued under $100 thousand for research services and focused surveys at specific facilities.

Davis Research's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans six categories from $36.49 to $145.95 per hour, covering Professional Market Research Collectors, Project Managers, CATI/Web Programmers, Data Processing Specialists, and Survey Design and Analysis roles at the senior level (masters degree, seven years experience); no security-cleared positions are offered. This rate structure and capability set align with the firm's core work: survey instrument design, telephone and web data collection, focus groups, incentive management, data processing, and analysis for healthcare and veteran services evaluation. Primary NAICS representation is 541910 (Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling), with secondary presence in applied research and development services.

Activity has been relatively flat in recent years—four awards in 2022, four in 2023, five in 2024—with a decline to three awards in 2025 and one award year-to-date in 2026. Combined potential value across all 31 awards (prime and sub) is $7.5 million, with $4.5 million obligated to date. One award with combined potential value of $127 thousand reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Davis Research performs longitudinal mental health evaluation surveys for The Rand Corporation's National Defense Research Institute; three sub awards cover 18-month follow-up surveys of active-duty service members post-separation and embedded mental health benefits-and-risks surveys, positioning the firm as a specialized survey-execution resource within a larger research enterprise rather than as a broad defense research player.

Davis Research is a market research company that has provided research services to the government and business communities since 1970.

Davis Research has extensive experience working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, providing a FIPS 140-2 secure environment and Section 508 compliant web and phone surveys. Privacy and Information Security is at the core of all of our projects.

Led by brothers Bill and Bob Davis, Davis Research employs over 300 research professionals, making us large enough to handle every aspect of a project in-house, but small enough to give it the personal attention it deserves.

Our clients include governmental organizations such as the Department of Veterans Affairs, governmental researchers such as the Rand Corporation, individual research professionals, large research organizations, and internal research departments of small and large corporations.

We have the right tools and extensive experience with how to use them.