Comparative Effectiveness Research Contract - CCW and Death Certificate Data

This task will provide Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) enhancements on the CCW database that already exists under Task #1 of the umbrella contract. In addition to the CER enhancements, this task order includes the purchase of National Death Index data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). CMS has an application with NCHS to obtain this data. The contractor will be responsible for providing the funding (via a passthrough from CMS to NCHS) for the data and incorporating the data into the database for CER projects. The contractor will be responsible for maintaining the CERT enhanced database and making the data available to internal and external CER researchers.