Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)   4

Background
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) No. AHRQ-22-10009 for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The HCUP is a flagship project of the Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends (CFACT) program, producing health care databases, related software tools, and research products. It is a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by AHRQ, contributing to the CFACT’s goal of providing health care leaders and policymakers with information and tools to improve decisions on health care access, coverage, and cost.

Work Details
The contract involves maintaining voluntary data partners, processing data obtained from HCUP Partners organizations (~ 35 million records annually), creating annual and quarterly state inpatient and outpatient data files, sampling the HCUP state databases to create derivative national databases, coordinating the centralized distribution of HCUP data, maintaining and updating the HCUP website (HCUP-US), developing new products, delivering user technical support and training on HCUP databases, conducting data analytics and methods projects using the HCUP data to explore the impact of changes in health policy on health care.
Preparing technical reports and publications, preparing data tables for visualizations, query sites, supporting the generation of estimates derived from HCUP data for other federal use, developing systems for monitoring and maintaining secure computing environment.

Period of Performance
An Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ), single-award task order-type contract is contemplated for a period of five years. The contract is anticipated to be awarded on or about December 21, 2022.

Place of Performance
The geographic location(s) where the contract will be performed are not explicitly mentioned in the provided information.