Description
The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is seeking a contractor to provide Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) telephone data collection services. The contractor will collect random sample telephone survey data related to health risk factors and conditions on the adult population in Mississippi for the BRFSS program and provide PRAMS services, including a mail and telephone survey. The contractor must have at least 7 years of recent experience conducting BRFSS data collection activities and must have successfully collected BRFSS data for at least 10 states/sites.
Some key points about this opportunity include:
• The contractor will be responsible for obtaining a sufficient sample from the CDC to collect the targeted number of complete interviews.
• The contractor will be required to train interviewers on the new survey instrument, complete the required number of interviews in accordance with survey guidelines, and perform ongoing quality control of the survey collection.
• The sample size for the MS BRFSS survey is between 4,000 and 5,000 completes annually, and the sample size for the MS PRAMS survey is between 1,500 and 2,500 completes annually.
• The contractor must comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder.