Merative US L.P.

Merative US L.P., a for-profit healthcare data and analytics company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, operates as a prime contractor selling licensed access to proprietary healthcare claims research databases, clinical decision-support tools, and pharmaceutical reference data to federal health agencies on a full-and-open basis. The vendor competes without SBA set-asides across 23 prime awards (72% of recent work) and 9 subcontract positions; it is not a certified 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other federal small-business category. Merative is a for-profit limited liability partnership and parent entity; it operates Micromedex LLC as a named subsidiary.

Merative's federal capability portfolio centers on three core products: MarketScan Research Databases (de-identified healthcare claims data covering over 200 million covered lives from private insurers, employers, Medicare, and Medicaid); Micromedex (clinical decision-support and pharmaceutical reference databases including Neofax, Red Book, and Clinical Evidence); and Poisindex (toxic-substances reference data). Contracts are structured as purchase orders and definitive contracts for licensed access, typically on a firm fixed-price basis. Representative prime work includes a $2.71 million definitive contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Pittsburgh) awarded September 2024 for MarketScan Databases through September 2027; a $1.465 million contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded September 2026 for licensed access to private healthcare claims data to evaluate spending and consumption trends, running through September 2031; and a $3.005 million purchase order from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration awarded September 2022 for commercial healthcare claims data with online analytic tools and technical analysis support, through September 2027.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward health and economic research agencies within HHS and Commerce. The top five customer agencies account for 72% of awards by count and 95% of combined potential value, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Pittsburgh) with 4 awards and $4 million combined potential value, followed by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (2 awards, $3 million), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (11 awards, $2.8 million), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (4 awards, $1.9 million), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2 awards, $1.2 million). The divergence between award-count and dollar-value rankings reflects CMS and AHRQ's higher volume of smaller purchase orders against CDC's larger definitive contracts; CMS dominates frequency while CDC anchors the largest single deals.

Merative participates in three parent vehicles: the Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design, and Analysis 2 (RMADA 2) IDIQ with 7 task orders, the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 2 task orders, and the General Services Administration IT Schedule 70 with 1 task order. Six awards totaling $6.4 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, exposing the vendor to recompete activity across MarketScan licenses with CMS, CDC, and other repeat customers.

SCI-reported service-contract activity shows minimal federal services labor revenue: $1.1 million invoiced across FY2023–FY2024, with zero reported FTEs across all fiscal years. This pattern reflects Merative's business model — licensed database access and software subscriptions do not require substantial contractor labor hours and are therefore recorded as product revenue rather than service-contract labor. On the contracts that do carry reportable labor (primarily the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration deal), government-paid hourly rates ran as high as $51,238/hr in FY2024, though the median across all records is $3,409/hr, indicating that most invoiced revenue derives from license fees rather than hourly labor. Merative self-performed all reported labor with no subcontractor engagement on SCI-reportable contracts.

In its subcontractor role, Merative supplies MarketScan data and Micromedex clinical databases to National Opinion Research Center (five awards through December 2023 supporting Inflation Reduction Act Medicare negotiation and rebate provisions), Research Triangle Institute (a September 2024 sub award for Part C/D and risk adjustment model research and maintenance), and Carahsoft Technology Corp (a February 2026 sub award for analytic support to ASPE reports). Merative's sub footprint is niche and tied to data-access delivery rather than systems integration or consulting.