Emergency Care Research Institute

Emergency Care Research Institute (doing business as ECRI), a nonprofit healthcare research organization headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, delivers medical device evaluations, healthcare quality and safety research, evidence synthesis, and clinical evidence assessment services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing entirely in full-and-open procurements without SBA set-aside designations. The vendor operates across federal health agencies and the Defense Health Agency, with no security-cleared labor categories and no material subcontracting footprint.

ECRI's customer base is heavily concentrated in civilian health agencies. The top five funding agencies account for approximately 26% of recent awards by count but 65% of combined potential value. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality dominates by dollars, anchoring 42 awards valued at $103.8 million in combined potential value, followed by the Defense Health Agency (56 awards, $18.7 million), the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (27 awards, $5.6 million), the Department of the Army Medical Command (39 awards, $2.9 million), and Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 (13 awards, $1.6 million). AHRQ's concentration is substantially higher than its award-count ranking, reflecting large IDIQ vehicles issuing substantial task orders; the Defense Health Agency shows the inverse pattern — numerous small orders across medical subscription and data services.

ECRI's capability portfolio centers on proprietary subscription services and evidence-synthesis research. The vendor maintains the Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System (UMDNS) vocabulary under a separate sole-source contract with the National Library of Medicine running through January 2027. Concrete recent work includes a $2.131 million definitive contract awarded by the Food and Drug Administration on September 30, 2026, for advanced research and development of regulatory science under the BAA Advanced Research and Development of Regulatory Science (CDRH135512), running through September 30, 2030; a $11.088 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule delivery order executed September 27, 2025, for clinical risk management planning and health workforce development services through September 26, 2030; a $450 thousand time-and-materials delivery order from AHRQ under the Evidence-based Practice Centers VII IDIQ (awarded September 30, 2025, completion September 29, 2030) for methods and dissemination work; and ongoing subscription services to the Department of Veterans Affairs Strategic Acquisition Center for the ECRI CAPITAL Guide subscription and alerts ($6.087 million ceiling, exercised through September 29, 2028). The vendor also operates a $250 thousand Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Peace Corps (established September 28, 2025, completion September 27, 2030) for patient safety organization root cause analysis services.

Vehicle positioning reflects ECRI's established role in federal health research procurement. The vendor places work under the Evidence-based Practice Centers VI IDIQ (10 task orders, $3.6 million combined potential value), the Evidence-based Practice Centers VII IDIQ ($90 million ceiling, awarded July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2030, with two substantive delivery orders as of source date), a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (8 task orders, $29.9 million), and a large indefinite-delivery contract (H9400205D0003, 41 task orders, $7.7 million combined potential value). Activity has declined modestly in recent years — 12 awards in 2022 declining to 3 awards in 2026 year-to-date — though the dollar magnitude remains stable through large single task orders. Five awards valued at $7 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, ECRI invoiced $15.3 million across FY2022–FY2025 (FY2022: $4.4 million, 18.7 FTEs; FY2023: $3.1 million, 7.4 FTEs; FY2024: $4 million, 9.5 FTEs; FY2025: $3.9 million, 7.4 FTEs). SCI-reported government-paid rates ran a median of $147.46 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $543.07 per hour. The vendor builds delivery teams from internal staff; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractor hours represent 0% of total contractor hours. GSA Schedule labor offerings span five categories priced from $94.44 to $292.60 per hour, covering administrative coordinators, clinical information analysts, and managers in patient safety, risk, and quality domains, with educational requirements ranging from bachelor's to master's degree and no security-clearance posture.

The vendor holds one named subsidiary, The Just Culture Company LLC, a for-profit organization. ECRI has been registered in SAM.gov since 2002 and maintains operations across a multistate footprint — Plymouth Meeting and Doylestown, Pennsylvania (primary administrative and delivery hub); Prescott, Arizona; Vancouver, Washington; Frederick and Bethesda, Maryland — reflecting geographic dispersion of its federal healthcare customer base and research delivery locations.