Due: July 16, 2025
Evaluation is a key agency function. The ability to link administrative data records across multiple sources is critical to understanding results achieved with federal funding. Many federal programs are administered at the state level, but the federal government does not have or has limited direct access to the administrative data collected by the states from these programs (examples of such programs include Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), unemployment insurance (UI), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)). Although these state data are valuable for understanding the impact of federal programs, there are numerous, well-documented barriers to accessing and using them.
This Request for Solutions (RFS) seeks to develop a toolkit or framework for the federal community to facilitate federal-state data linkages for evaluation activities by: (a) conducting an analysis of current federal-state linkages in a federal program evaluation office to identify implications for other federal program evaluation offices; (b) applying innovative strategies to address data access and integration challenges by conducting a two-state use case that acquires and links state child care data with the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) block grant data; and (c) documenting solutions that can support a scalable and repeatable process for future state-federal data integration efforts.
This opportunity does not require membership in America’s Datahub Consortium. However, if you win, you have to become a member of ADC (at no cost) to accept. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity.
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