Description
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking to continue the operation, maintenance, security, modernization, and expansion of the Child and Family Data (CFData) Archive. The archive facilitates the preservation and sharing of data from previous, current, and future ACF-funded research grants and contracts involving early care and education, Head Start, child care, home visiting, and other research concerning children and families. The contractor will be required to maintain secure and continuous public and restricted access to archived datasets and supporting documentation, curate, document, preserve, and disseminate new datasets from ACF-funded research, conduct data-quality reviews, disclosure-risk analyses, disclosure-limitation activities, and determinations regarding appropriate levels of access. The contractor will also operate and maintain a secure Virtual Data Enclave for highly restricted data and perform disclosure reviews of analytic outputs. Some key features of the archive include:
• Maintaining a secure archive that adheres to contract requirements and applicable laws and regulations to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ECE datasets and supporting materials.
• Providing technical assistance and training to data producers, data depositors, federal project officers, researchers, policy analysts, and other users.
• Maintaining and continually improving effective technical assistance, communications, and data curation and management to support data depositors, data users, and Federal Project Officers (FPOs).
• Addressing all federal regulations and contract requirements for data systems, establishing and maintaining an Authority to Operate, and complying with guidance from ACF Chief Information Officer.
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Contact
Mesfin Alemayehu