SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- Health Coverage Portal Subscription Services
- Notice Date
- 8/18/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, 12501 Ardennes Avenue, Suite 400, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 14-233-SOL-00673
- Archive Date
- 9/23/2014
- Point of Contact
- Erneisha L. Bailey, Phone: 3014439431
- E-Mail Address
-
Erneisha.Bailey@psc.hhs.gov
(Erneisha.Bailey@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. Producing evidence entails both primary data collection and the use of data collected and made available by other public and private sources. In many cases, the secondary data needed to support critical analyses of the U.S. healthcare system are available only from private proprietary sources and to be secured in an efficient manner have to be purchased directly from those sources. The project for which the Mark Farrah Associates Health Coverage Portal data is needed involves examining detailed financial data from a wide range of insurers, public and private as well as employment-based and individual plans, to examine the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on critical segments of the health insurance market in the U.S. A particular focus will be on the individual market, for which there is a well-known dearth of both publicly available and comprehensive information on who is covered, how much is spent for coverage, how much is spent on care for covered individuals, how much is spent for administrative expenses, and what trends in these financial statistics have been both before and after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. To our knowledge, the Mark Farrah Associates Health Coverage Portal is the only comprehensive source of information on all of these characteristics of public and private health insurance plans that is readily accessible through a tested and easy to use web interface. Therefore, t he Government intends to award to Mark Farrah Associates for these services. The cost of executing any other type of procurement would exceed the amount of money available for this contract and not result in the acquisition of data in a timely manner. Mark Farrach Association can have this subscription within the time frame needed (immediately) and keep the cost within budget (less than $50K).
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/PSC/DAM/ 14-233-SOL-00673 /listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: rockville, Maryland, United States
- Record
- SN03468660-W 20140820/140818235044-a44301a3e37e4d137858c26378f3d9fd (fbodaily.com)
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