Medicaid Data Analysis for Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens and Information Systems

Scope

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a sole source contract with MATHEMATICA INC., 1100 1ST ST NE FL 12, WASHINGTON, DC.

20002 This notice is provided in accordance with RFO FAR 8.401 & GSAM/R 538.7104-3(b)(1) .

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Division of Bacterial Diseases (DBD) requires support Services with the contractor listed above.

The requested contractor Mathematica qualified as “innovator status” vendor for data analysis by Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Mathematica also has demonstrated experience and specialized staff with unique access and analytical capabilities for Medicaid data sets which captures the largest segment of US healthcare data, including births.

The contractor shall perform analyses across four technical dimensions defined in the Statement of Work: (1) validating infant GBS case counts using TAF OT claims and evaluating a fourth case definition tied to maternal Medicaid IDs; (2) developing and refining a probabilistic mother-infant linkage algorithm using the Medicaid Case Number and supplementary variables; (3) estimating maternal vaccination coverage (COVID-19, influenza, Tdap, and prospectively RSV) accounting for bundled payment code effects; and (4) applying methods to reduce gestational age missingness using prenatal claims data.

These tasks require continuity with linkage algorithms and case-definition logic Mathematica has already built and validated under prior CDC task orders.

The authority permitting other than full and open competition is Title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C.

251, et seq.); Title 40 U.S.C.

501, Services for Executive Agencies, as implemented at FAR 8.401 and GSAM/R...