SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Medical Expenditure Panel (MEPS) Household Component (HC)
- Notice Date
- 1/20/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-12-10008
- Archive Date
- 3/28/2012
- Point of Contact
- Robert A Zuhlke, Phone: 301-427-1714
- E-Mail Address
-
robert.zuhlke@ahrq.hhs.gov
(robert.zuhlke@ahrq.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) anticipates posting a solicitation for proposals for a six and one-half (6.5) year (base period with seven extension options) performance based cost plus award fee contract for the maintenance and fielding of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Support - Household Component (HC) which will include collecting, editing, and imputing data collected from households. The Contractor will also be responsible for survey weight and estimation variable development and construction as well as analytic file development, including documentation and code books. The solicitation and any documents relating to this requirement will only be available by downloading from the Internet through www.fedbizopps.gov. Interested Offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation and any subsequent amendments. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be available for downloading on or about 15 days after publication of this synopsis. Tasks will revolve around the MEPS-HC which collects detailed information on health care use and payment for health care services from a nationally representative sample of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. In the MEPS HC, data are collected for each new sample (panel) of households to cover a two-year period, and a new panel is started each year. To produce health care estimates for a calendar year, data are combined across two distinct nationally representative MEPS HC samples. More specifically, annual estimates are based on data from the first year of a current panel combined with data from the second year of a previous year's panel. The primary objective of the MEPS HC is to provide high quality data that can be used to produce both point estimates as well as distributional estimates of health care use, medical expenditures, health insurance status and sources of payment for medical care. In addition, the MEPS HC is designed to produce measures of health care quality associated with several high prevalence conditions. The health care services use, medical expenditures, and health insurance data can also be linked to the demographic, employment, economic, and health status of survey participants. The longitudinal feature of the MEPS HC permits analyses of transitions in health insurance coverage, health status, and other characteristics over a two year period. The MEPS-HC is to be comprised of core staff of seasoned professionals with education and experience in areas such as data collection (computer assisted and paper questionnaires) from household respondents of demographic characteristics, health conditions, health status, use of medical services, charges and sources of payments, access to care, satisfaction with care, health insurance coverage, income, and employment information. In addition, staff will have expertise and experience in developing analytic files, including documentation of public use files, as well as survey weight and variance estimation development and construction, and analytical and statistical data editing and imputation.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/AHRQ/DCM/AHRQ-12-10008/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States
- Zip Code: 20850
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
- SN02658407-W 20120122/120120234653-58869a9b6d7aecdb43375110b4945856 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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