Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS)
SCHEDULE PRICE LIST
SIN 874-1: Consulting Services
SIN 874-3: Survey Services
GSA Contract #: GS-10F-0416S
Period of Performance: September 25, 2006 – September 24, 2011
Option Period: September 25, 2011 – September 24, 2016
DUNS # 14-9387185
Client Information for Ordering Activities
1a Special Item Number(s): 871-4 and 874-3
1b Identification of the lowest priced model number and lowest unit price for that model for each special item number awarder in the contract. This price is the Government priced base on the unit of one, exclusive of any quantity/dollar volume, prompt payment, or any other concession affecting price. Those contracts that have unit prices based on the geographic location of the customer, should show the range of the lowest price, and cite the areas to which the prices apply.
2 Maximum order: $1,000,000
3 Minimum order: $1,ooo
4 Geographic coverage: Domestic only
5 Points of production: Same as company address
6 Discount from list prices or statement of net price: Government net prices (discounts already deducted)
7 Quantity discounts: None
8 Prompt payment terms: Net 30 days
9a Notification that Government purchase cards are accepted at or below the micro-purchase threshold: Yes
9b Notification whether Government purchase cards are accepted or not accepted above the micro-purchase threshold:N/A
10 Foreign items: None
11a Time of delivery: Specified on the Task Order
11b Expedited delivery: Contact contractor
11c Overnight and 2-day delivery: Contact contractor
12 F.O.B. point(s): Destination
13a Ordering address: Same as company address
13b Ordering procedures: For supplies and services, the ordering procedures, information on Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA’s) and a sample BPA can be found at the GSA/FSS Schedule homepage (fss.gsa.gov/schedules).
14 Payment address: Same as company address
15 Warranty provision: Contractor’s standard commercial warranty
16 Export packing charges: N/A
17 Terms and conditions of Government purchase card acceptance: Contact contractor
18 Terms and conditions of rental, maintenance, and repair: N/A
19 Terms and conditions of installation: N/A
20 Terms and conditions of repair parts: N/A
21 Terms and conditions for any other services: N/A
22 List of service and distribution on points: N/A
23 List of participating dealers: N/A
24 Preventative maintenance: N/A
25 Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number: 14-9387185
26 Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database: Registered
About the Center for Policy Research
The Center for Policy Research (CPR) is an independent, nonprofit research organization founded in 1981 and based in Denver, Colorado. CPR is a woman-owned and managed organization. It has over 30 years of experience providing comprehensive consulting and survey research services aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of human services agencies and the justice system.
CPR is a pre-approved, federally qualified vendor within the General Service Administration (GSA) Schedule System. CPR offers consultation services across a broad range of disciplines including Social Services, Social Development, Crime and Justice, Education and Health Care.
CPR has conducted scores of studies, assessments, Task Orders, and evaluation projects to solve social problems, assess new programs, and offer policy recommendations. Their work covers a broad array of human services including child protection, domestic violence, poverty, court reform, child support, and health and education innovations. Their expertise includes assisting federal, state, and local agencies, service providers, foundations, and funding agencies by:
¨ Designing and implementing innovative new programs and services;
¨ Assessing organizational strengths and weaknesses and identifying best practices;
¨ Developing performance measures and indicators aimed at assessing and improving service delivery;
¨ Convening key constituencies in order to engage in planning processes;
¨ Designing and conducting research studies, program evaluations and assessments using various research methodologies and data collection techniques;
¨ Preparing draft and final reports summarizing the results of consulting, research, assessment and facilitation activities in a readable and accessible manner;
¨ Disseminating the results of their consulting, research, assessment and facilitation activities by making presentations at local, state, and national conferences targeted at judiciary, court administrators, child support, public welfare, and child protection professionals; and
¨ Writing and publishing articles in professional journals directed toward policy makers and practitioners in the fields of child welfare and legal reform.
CPR’s consulting, research, and survey activities have been funded by a wide array of public and private agencies including: the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Pew Charitable Trust, the State Justice Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Children’s Bureau, the Federal office of Child Support Enforcement, and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
CPR researches routinely publish the results of their consulting and research activities in journals such as NIJ Research in Brief, Violence and Victims, Criminologist, Public Welfare, The Journal of Social Issues, Law and Society Review, Family Law Quarterly, Juvenile and Family Court Journal, Judges Journal, International Journal of Policy, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, and many others.
CPR researchers have testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on a variety of topics, including domestic violence and child support policies. They have co-authored a Report to Congress on Child Access Demonstration Projects that led to the initiation in 1997 of the State Child Access and Visitation Grant programs which involve annual awards of $10 million per year for programs to improve parent-child contact.
Consulting Services, SIN 874-1
CPR has an established track record of assisting state, local, and federal agencies by providing expert advice, technical assistance, and guidance. Their consulting services are rooted in the collection and analysis of information regarding agency performance and the production of clearly-written studies, analyses and reports on remedial interventions, innovative services, and new staffing arrangements. During the past 30 years, CPR has conducted numerous program audits and evaluations including:
¨ Child welfare projects that have involved 2,870 families in juvenile courts in 14 states and 5,300 families in child welfare programs in 18 states;
¨ Child support projects focusing on guidelines , paternity establishment, enforcement remedies, arrears management, fatherhood initiatives, access and visitation, employment programs and transitional jobs, asset building programs, and welfare reform in a dozen states;
¨ Mediation projects on divorce, child protection, small claims and civil matters that have resulted in the adoption of mediation techniques in family and juvenile courts in 20 states; and
¨ Literacy programs for disadvantaged readers that have involved over 10,000 elementary students in 19 schools
The key services that CPR offers are as follows:
Research Design Services
Virtually every project that CPR has conducted involves working with program administrators to identify the type of information needed and the most rigorous research design option available. CPR research in the area of child support enforcement frequently includes studies using random assignment techniques.
Technical Assistance
CPR provides technical assistance services to all its consulting clients by offering project management services, developing and tracking data with meaningful outcomes, developing Management Information Systems (MIS) that can be accessed remotely, preparing progress reports and helping clients meet all other reporting requirements. They also help clients to identify and improve program participation of difficult-to-serve populations, such as noncustodial parents, at-risk youth, never-married parents, and low-income parents. In 1999-2003, CPR worked on the Multi-Site Evaluation of Responsible Fatherhood Projects and provided technical assistance to grantees in eight states to develop programs that offered employment, peer support, and visitation services, and designed instruments, collected, and analyzed data on 1,764 NCPs who enrolled in the projects. Currently, CPR is collaborating with the Office of Child Support Enforcement and Assets for Independence (AFI) grantees on the Building Assets for Fathers and Families project in Tennessee. CPR is helping these clients to deliver financial and child support literacy services to noncustodial parents within the child support system, while also getting NCPs banked and setting them up with Individual Development Accounts (IDAs).
Report Writing and Information Dissemination Services
CPR has proven its ability to disseminate the findings of their qualitative and quantitative research to policy makers and program administrators nationwide. For example, their evaluation of Responsible Fatherhood programs in eight states led to Fatherhood Programs in eight states led to the generation of two reports: (1) examined program implementation patterns based on visits to eight program sites and qualitative interviews with project staff and partners and (2) examined client characteristics and program outcomes for 1,674 project participants based on an analysis of program and agency records. Based on their evaluation of the Child Access Demonstration Projects, which examined the impact of various interventions to address access disputes between parents, CPR prepared a Report to Congress in 1996 and 1997. As a result, Congress initiated State Child Access and Visitation Grant Programs, which involve annual awards f $10 million to states. CPR researchers also publish many journal articles and deliver presentations at leading professional conferences.
Conducting Surveys, SIN 874-3
CPR has extensive experience with all aspects of the survey process including developing survey designs, selecting a data collection methodology, designing questionnaires and other survey instruments, administering surveys using mail, telephone, and in-person techniques, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data. CPR also has abundant experience producing comprehensive reports that incorporate quantitative and qualitative information and document the methods used, data limitations, lessons learned, recommendations and suggested follow-up actions. Some examples of survey services CPR has provided in the past decade include:
¨ National Violence Against Women Survey, conducted for the National Institute of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1994-99. The project involved designing a comprehensive survey on intimate partner violence, including rape and stalking, and conducting telephone interviews with a national probability sample of 8,000 adult women and 8,000 adult men generated through random-digit dialing. The project also involved extensive statistical analyses including calculating rates of victimization, statistical tests of significances, and generating national incidence rates.
¨ National Survey of Supervised Visitation Programs, conducted for the State Justice Institute during 1995-96, involved designing an extensive, close-ended, fixed-choice survey of programs that supervise parent-child visits for divorced and violent families, mailing the survey to all members of the Supervised Visitation Network, and analyzing the results of the 100 programs that responded (response rate: 65%) using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).
¨ National Survey of Parent Education Programs, conducted for the State Justice Institute during 1995-98, involved designing a brief self-administered and a lengthy telephone questionnaire, administering it in-person to 3,000 divorcing parents who completed parent education programs in eight states and conducting telephone interviews with 602 (response rate= 20%) parents for more detailed feedback and analyzing the results using SPSS.
¨ National Evaluation of OCSE Responsible Fatherhood Programs, conducted for the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation during 199-2003, involved designing an extensive telephone questionnaire to be administered to 1,674 men who participated in fatherhood programs and conducting telephone interviews with 518 participants (response rate = 30.9%). The statistical analysis of completed telephone surveys using SPSS also incorporated information from state child support records and wage reports.
¨ The Hotline Outcomes Assessment Study, conducted for the Project for the Future of Equal Justice during the 1999-2002, involved designing a detailed, close-ended, fixed-choice questionnaire that was administered by professional telephone interviewers with 2,034 of a targeted 5,087 low-income callers to five legal hotlines (response rate 40%). The results were analyzed using SPSS.
¨ Task Order 27: Evaluation of State Access and Visitation (AV) Grant Programs, conducted for the Federal office of Child Support Enforcement during 2002-05, involved designing and administering a detailed survey to 970 or 4,109 low-income program users in nine states (response rate= 23.6%). The results were analyzed using SPSS.
In these and many other projects, CPR has provided a full range of services associated with all aspects of surveying. They include the following:
¨ Research Model Design Services. CPR works with program administrators and funders to determine the questions to be asked, the information to be collected and the most powerful research format possible including experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
¨ Determining Survey Data Collection Methodology. CPR designs surveys and questionnaires of various lengths to be administered using a variety of formats. They regularly prepare close-ended, fixed choice instruments as well as those that use more open-ended items.
¨ Sampling and Survey Development. CPR pretests surveys, questionnaires, and other data collection instruments, with users to ensure that they are understandable and fall within the required time-frames. In large scale interview efforts, CPR subcontracts with experienced telephone research firms and works closely with supervisors to generate samples and train telephone interviewers on the proper administration of the instruments.
When true random assignment is not possible, CPR has worked with courts and human services agencies to take advantage of naturally occurring groups of served and not-served individuals and to develop comparison groups from time periods immediately preceding the implementation of new services from adjacent jurisdictions and other “similar” settings.
Services to Design Performance Measures and Indicators
CPR is extremely adept at developing outcome measures that yield reliable information about agency operations and program performance and is effective in stimulating follow-up action. In its assessments, CPR routinely generates representative samples of cases under study, develops extracts and analyzes data, and prepares comprehensive reports that are used to develop a series of effective training programs, administrative rule and other procedural changes, and system enhancements.
Information Collection Services
CPR projects routinely involve the collection of a wide variety of data from multiple sources and at multiple sites using a variety of techniques. The following are some examples:
¨ Surveys. For the National Violence Against Women Survey, CPR designed and tested a structured telephone interview dealing with childhood and adult experiences with all forms of physical and sexual violence and administered it to a random national probability sample of 8,000 women and 8,000 men.