My Own Network, powered by AHRQ (MONAHRQ)

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) anticipates posting a solicitation to procure MONAHRQ - My Own Network, Powered by AHRQ -an innovative software tool from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ. This solicitation will be a total small business set-aside. In 2010, AHRQ introduced MONAHRQ, a free desktop software tool that helps organizations quickly and easily turn healthcare data into a customizable, fully-functional reporting website. Designing and building an effective reporting site can be challenging, expensive, and time consuming. MONAHRQ makes this process easier, thus helping to encourage local healthcare quality measurement and reporting in support of Agency efforts such as greater transparency, comparative reporting, quality improvement, and payment initiatives. The MONAHRQ desktop application allows users to load local healthcare data or information, select data analysis and website customization options, process the data, and generate a full set of website files onto the local computer. Users must host the generated website themselves. A MONAHRQ-generated website can provide information on hospital quality, hospital utilization, potentially avoidable hospital stays, and county rates of hospital use. It targets a variety of audiences such as consumers, providers, and policy makers. It is designed to be easy to use and to follow best practices in public reporting. AHRQ intends to expand the MONAHRQ tool in ways that include: -- Reporting more types of measures. -- Supporting more reporting features. -- Offering more customization options. -- Increasing ease of use. -- Incorporating additional best practices in reporting, including knowledge generated through AHRQ's new initiative on Building the Science of Public Reporting. Offerors must have the capability to redesign and expand the MONAHRQ software in support of Agency goals, to maintain and update the MONAHRQ software, to maintain and update the MONAHRQ download site and related materials, to provide technical assistance to MONAHRQ users, to support and implement strategic planning to improve the MONAHRQ project and to increase MONAHRQ adoption, and to help disseminate MONAHRQ to a broader audience. Qualified offerors must demonstrate substantial experience with quality measurement and reporting and with developing and supporting healthcare-related software tools, databases, and websites. Other tasks will require contractors to manage and coordinate staff in support of MONAHRQ and MONAHRQ users. Organizations are encouraged to participate in this offering that work at the national, state, regional, local, or provider levels and who are engaged in developing, testing, implementing, disseminating, and supporting software tools and websites that help to promote, understand, monitor, or leverage quality measure data or performance in health care delivery. It is anticipated that 1 contract will be awarded prior to 9/30/12 for a base period of 1 year with 4 one year options. 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. All responsible small business firms may submit a proposal which will be evaluated by AHRQ. It is estimated that the solicitation will be issued on or about 2/15/12.