HHS' equitable care agency awards 2 vehicles, $750M combined ceiling
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Ross Wilkers
The Health Resources and Services Administration chooses 10 firms for a evaluation support contract and 14 on a second pact directly tied to the U.S.' organ transplant network.
The Health and Human Services Department agency responsible for connecting uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable people to care has made awards for a pair of contract vehicles with a combined $750 million ceiling.
Contract number one disclosed Wednesday has a maximum value of $350 million over up to five years that has 10 companies involved.
These awardees will compete for task orders to help the Health Resources and Services Administration carry out evaluations and evidence-building activities related to policy analysis, program evaluations, research, and performance and quality measurement activities.
HRSA leans on those efforts to promote equity in health care via government practices, policymaking, contracting, budgeting, care delivery and data collection.
Federal Procurement Data System records identify these 10 companies as awardees:
- American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
- Altarum Institute
- Customer Value Partners
- Deloitte Consulting
- James Bell Associates (newcomer)
- L&M Policy Research
- MayaTech Corp.
- Mission Analytics Group
- Policy and Research (newcomer)
- Walter R. McDonald & Associates
Each of the other eight awardees are incumbents that will continue onto this new iteration of HRSA’s Evidence Building and Evaluation contract, which will have one base year and up to four option years. HRSA received 26 bids in total for the recompete, according to FPDS information.
The agency has obligated approximately $96.3 million in task order spend for the current iteration awarded in 2019, according to GovTribe data. Neither of the five largest incumbents are on the recompete awardee list: National Opinion Research Center, Mathematica, JBS International, Westat and Abt Global.
HRSA’s second major award from September was announced on the 19th. It has a $450 million ceiling over up to five years with 14 companies involved and appears to be a brand new requirement.
The OPTN Operations Transition’s structure is more complicated as the awards are broken out across four domains, but all of the work supports HRSA’s ongoing effort to modernize its Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
OPTN is described as a public-private partnership that links every professional involved in the U.S.’ donation and transplantation system. Some of the system’s elements includes the transplant waiting list, database on organ transplant data, patient assistance, education of transplant professionals and policymaking functions.
Domain one covers transformation services, the second pertains to OPTN operations, number three focuses on the matching system that involves IT and data, and the fourth is communications.
Awardees and their domain assignments are as follows:
- Abt Global – domain one
- Accenture’s U.S. federal subsidiary – domain three
- Arbor Research Collaborative for Health – domain one
- Customer Value Partners – domains two and four
- Deloitte Consulting – domain four
- General Dynamics IT – domains two and three
- Guidehouse – domains one, two and four
- Highlight Technologies – domain four
- KPMG – domain two
- Leidos – domain three
- Maximus – domains one and two
- Rand Corp. – domain one
- Sapient Government Services – domain three
- United Network for Organ Sharing – domain two