SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)
- Notice Date
- 4/27/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-06-0009
- Archive Date
- 6/30/2006
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is soliciting proposals on a full and open competition from qualified organizations to award a multi-year contract to conduct the next phase of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). HCUP is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by AHRQ. HCUP databases bring together the data collection efforts of State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal government to create a national information resource of patient-level health care data. Currently, there are 38 States with data organizations that participate as HCUP Partners by sharing their inpatient and outpatient data with AHRQ. HCUP involves many activities, a subset of these are achieved through a contract mechanism. The HCUP family of health services databases includes: HCUP State databases ? state-specific annual inpatient and outpatient discharge and visit level data files; HCUP nationwide databases ? nationwide samples derived from the HCUP State databases enabling focused research on special populations; and other HCUP databases ? auxiliary databases that are used to augment information in the HCUP State and nationwide databases. These databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments at the national, State, and local market levels. The project includes activities such as technical user support, electronic documentation, central data distribution, training, and expansion into outpatient data, among others. As currently designed, the HCUP contract annually produces over 80 inpatient, ambulatory surgery, and emergency department state-level databases, 2 national databases, over 30 publicly disseminated databases, 10 software tools, and numerous presentations and trainings; receives over 500,000 hits per year on the HCUP Web site; and responds to approximately 2,000 technical assistance and data support inquiries per year. Detailed descriptions of the project and data can be found at the HCUP Web site at: www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov . Sources must have an understanding of and experience in: maintaining and managing multiple, complex activities concurrently at the highest level of professional and scientific quality; managing subcontractors and consultants; building, managing, and analyzing a large administrative encounter-level database in direct support of health services research; developing systems for monitoring and maintaining secure and efficient computing environment (including programmer resources); processing inpatient and outpatient data; outpatient billing and CPT/HCPCS coding and inpatient billing and ICD-9 and ICD-10 coding; providing assistance on understanding and adoption of technological innovations that may affect different aspects of the project for the transmission and sharing of data such as the Electronic Health Record; applying national health care data standards; conducting complex programming in support of sample design and other statistical software; developing sample design and sampling weights to produce national or other such estimates; producing electronic documentation from large administrative encounter-level data for independent use by other organizations; recruiting data Partners, coordinating and negotiating with outside agencies for data purchase and collection, and providing technical assistance to data organizations; conducting special analyses, providing technical support and training in data collection and analysis; managing large health care electronic databases and Web sites; health policy, uses of administrative data; ability to write user-friendly, technically accurate reports. Source must possess, or be able to obtain (in-house or through subcontracting/consulting arrangements) the staff and other resources needed to expeditiously carry out the different types of activities listed. It is anticipated that one award will be made. Award of the contract is expected by September 27, 2006. In addition to the solicitation being available on this site, it will also be available for download from the internet on AHRQ?s site at www.ahrq.gov. Once in AHRQ?s home page, go to Funding Opportunities, then Contract Solicitations. It is the offerors? responsibility to monitor this site for release of the solicitation, download their own copy of the solicitation, and monitor the site for any subsequent amendments. Since it is not known who is downloading the solicitation, a bidders list will not be available. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be evaluated by AHRQ. It is estimated that the solicitation will be issued on or sometime after May 12, 2006, with proposals due approximately 45 days after release of the solicitation.
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