The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Program creates NIH-wide ordering mechanisms for the delegated community via establishment of BPAs. A BPA is established for one year and is reviewed each year for usage and pricing. If pricing continues to be reasonable and there is usage on the BPA, the BPA is renewed for another year.

Ripple Effect has successfully executed more than 20 task orders on its NIH BPA (75N98020A00061) throughout the last 10 years. The work has spanned technical capabilities ranging from technology assessments to strategic communications, policy development to training development, and program evaluation to scientific coding. The NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) within NIH that Ripple Effect has supported through this BPA include:

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• National Institute of Nursing Research
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• National Institute on Aging
• National Cancer Institute
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Center for Scientific Review
• Office of the Director

– Contract number: 75N98020A00061
– Services Listed:

CONSULTING/TRAINING SERVICES
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES

– More information on the NIH BPA Program Website
– Ripple Effect POC: Dr. Jessica Escobedo, Director of Program Management and Policy, 626.354.1102, jescobedo@rippleeffect.com

The Professional Services Schedule (PSS) is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple award schedule, providing direct access to simple or complex fixed-price or labor-hour professional services

• Industrial Group: 00CORP
• Contract number: GS-10F-0365T
• Contract End Date: Sep 12, 2022
• Contract SINS:
  – Integrated Consulting Services SIN 874-1
  – Program Management SIN 874-7
• Business Size/Status: Woman‐Owned Small Business (WOSB)
• More information on GSA Advantage
• Ripple Effect POC: Patrick McCarthy, Director of Strategic Growth, 440.376.5022, pmccarthy@rippleeffect.com

Ripple Effect is a first-tier contractor teaming arrangement (CTA) subcontractor to Integrity Management Consulting (IMC).

• Contract number: 47QRAD20D1019
• Core Disciplines:

– Program management services
– Management consulting services
– Logistics services
– Engineering service
– Scientific services
– Financial services

• Ripple Effect POC: Patrick McCarthy, Director of Strategic Growth, 440.376.5022, pmccarthy@rippleeffect.com

Ripple Effect serves as the Prime contractor for the PATSS fixed-price (FFP) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, which provides client-site staff to support the programmatic, administrative, data, evaluation, communications and grants management needs for CDMRP. Our PATSS staff include a wide array of LCATs, including Public Affairs professionals, Management Analysts, Program Evaluators, Data Managers, Program Analysts and Program Managers, and Program and Portfolio Area Managers. They conduct a range of tasks broadly supporting CDMRP’s program administration needs. Due to our reputation for finding exceptional staff and focusing on customer needs, our contract has been used by other DOD agencies on additional task orders. In addition to our CDMRP support, we provided staff to support the Military Infectious Disease Research Program (MIDRP), Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), Clinical Investigation Facility (CIF) at Travis Air Force Base, and Naval Advanced Medical Development (NAMD) at Forest Glen Annex. Duties on these TOs include providing scientific and research support, advanced therapeutic development, clinical trial research award management and staff are responsible for planning, coordinating, integrating, programming, budgeting, and executing the programs within each agency.

• Contract number: W81XWH-17-D-0003
• Contract type: FFP IDIQ
• Period of Performance: 05/15/2017 – 05/14/2022
• Ripple Effect POC: Dr. Amy Hein, Director of Scientific Workforce, 800.277.5708 x708, ahein@rippleeffect.com

541618 – Other Management Consulting Services

541690 – Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services

541720 – Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities

541810 – Advertising Agencies

541820 – Public Relations Agencies

541830 – Media Buying Agencies

541870 – Advertising Material Distribution Services

541910 – Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling

541930 – Translation and Interpretation Services

541990 – All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

611420 – Computer Training

611710 – Educational Support Services

Ripple Effect works cooperatively with NIAID staff in a multidisciplinary team setting to execute a variety of evaluation task orders for this indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ). The IDIQ has been used to design and implement program evaluation projects for scientific research and management programs as well as provide support for evaluation training and evaluation related activities, and it can be made available for use across NIH institutes and centers (ICs).

• Contract number: 75N93019D00035
• Contract type: FFP IDIQ
• Period of Performance: 07/30/2019 – 07/29/2024
• Ripple Effect POC: Dr. Christine Riordan, Director of Research and Evaluation, 512.934.3164, kriordan@rippleeffect.com