A project supported by: WRMA’s Ryan White Data Systems and Analysis Support team
HRSA HAB selects WRMA once again
to provide technical assistance on its data reporting systems and analyze the resulting data
Client:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Service Areas
Areas of Expertise
Summary
WRMA is the Prime contractor for what is colloquially known as the “Data Support” project. This project provides a wide range of training and technical assistance (T/TA) to Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) recipients and their service providers in areas such as data collection, reporting, validation, and verification.
WRMA also supports HRSA HAB in developing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) justification packages for all its information collections. WRMA provides the T/TA via phone, email, screenshare, and in-person conferences, the team also writes and updates the manuals and other educational materials that accompany each report and conducts webinars that train grantees on each report. Currently, WRMA provides T/TA on 9 different reports and systems.
WRMA recently won its fifth consecutive Data Support contract, and HRSA HAB just initiated Option Year 2 of this most recent iteration of the contract. WRMA has held this contract as the prime since 2004.
Details
WRMA first won the “Data Support” contract in 2004, and we won the contract for the fifth time on Sept. 26, 2022. In September 2024, HRSA HAB initiated Option Year 2 of the contract. The new four-year contract came with a project name change and additional work. Where we were previously the Data Support and Technical Assistance Center (DSTA) project, we are now the Data Systems Support and Analysis project — although we will still be colloquially known as “Data Support”.
The name change did imply new work. We have a greater role in advising HRSA HAB on how to modify the online data reporting systems each year to make data reporting easier for the recipients and providers, and the data more accurate for HRSA HAB. WRMA has also subcontracted with our frequent partner The Mission Analytics Group (Mission) in supporting the preparation and analysis of the data we help the RWHAP recipients and providers to submit. In addition, the team is advising HRSA HAB on persistent data quality issues we encounter while performing the data analyses.
In addition to the T/TA described above, WRMA continues to run and maintain an online Dental Services Report system we designed for HRSA HAB. The current Authority to Operate expires in September 2025 and we are preparing for the Security Control Assessment to take place in May 2025.
HRSA HAB is redesigning all of the data collection forms for the AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs) will be redesigning all of its data reporting forms. Not only did this require WRMA’s assistance with the OMB clearance package, WRMA will be training all of the AETC recipients on the use of these new forms. Finally, WRMA is working with HRSA HAB and other TA providers to increase the use of the voluntary HIV Quality Measures (HIVQM) module. We will be holding listening sessions with potential and current users of the HIVQM to see how the module can be improved and thus attract new users.
