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SUBMISSIONS WILL BE JUDGED BASED ON THE FOLLOWING METRIC—Continued 

Criteria Technical competence and 

capabilities 

Use of data to provide 

effective outcomes Creativity/innovation Valuable information and insights regarding data 

Level 5 ........... Solver product meets all requirements outlined in the 

challenge and provides additional, unique, useful capabilities that meet the 

overall goal of the challenge.

Uses the data provided by 

OGP as well as additional, 

publicly-available data from 

a variety of sources to 

produce outstanding outcomes.

Is extremely innovative and 

creative, leading to new insights and desirable outcomes.

Information provided is extensive, well thought-out, valuable, and insightful. 

Judges 

There will be six judges, each a senior 

career official of GSA with expertise in 

government-wide policy, travel, 

information technology, and/or 

acquisition. Each judge will award a 

score to each submission and the 

winner(s) of the competition will be 

decided based on the highest average 

overall score. GSA will also have a 

technical advisor from Sabre, Inc who 

will assist the judges in evaluating the 

submissions as needed. However, the 

technical advisor will not vote in 

determining the prizes. Judges will only 

participate in judging submissions for 

which they do not have any conflicts of 

interest. 

Judges are: Anne Rung, GSA 

Associate Administrator for 

Government-wide Policy—Craig Flynn, 

Director—Travel Policy Division, Office 

of Government-wide Policy—Kris 

Rowley, GSA Office of the Chief 

Information Officer—Tim Burke, GSA 

Federal Acquisition Service—Jon 

Bearscove, GSA FAS Region 10—Sonny 

Hashmi—Acting Chief Information 

Officer—GSA Technical Advisor: Sam 

Gilliland, Sabre Technologies. 

Registration: Anyone intending to 

participate in the Travel Data Challenge 

can register by contacting Katherine 

Pearlman via 

katherine.pearlman@gsa.gov. Upon 

registration, you will be sent the sample 

data sets to use in solving the challenge. 

Submission of Entries 

Entries must be submitted online via 

ChallengePost by 11:59 p.m. EST on 

April 11th, 2014. 

Dated: February 10, 2014. 

Anne Rung, 

Associate Administrator, Office of 

Government-wide Policy, General Services 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2014–03191 Filed 2–14–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approve the proposed 

information collection project: 

‘‘Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety 

Culture Comparative Database.’’ In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A), AHRQ invites the public 

to comment on this proposed 

information collection. 

This proposed information collection 

was previously published in the Federal 

Register on December 6th, 2013 and 

allowed 60 days for public comment. 

One comment was received. The 

purpose of this notice is to allow an 

additional 30 days for public comment. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by March 20, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov. 

Copies of the proposed collection 

plans, data collection instruments, and 

specific details on the estimated burden 

can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@ahrq.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety 

Culture Comparative Database. 

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine 

called for health care organizations to 

develop a ‘‘culture of safety’’ such that 

their workforce and processes focus on 

improving the reliability and safety of 

care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is 

Human: Building a Safer Health 

System). To respond to the need for 

tools to assess patient safety culture in 

health care, AHRQ developed and pilot 

tested the Pharmacy Survey on Patient 

Safety Culture with OMB approval 

(OMB NO. 0935–0183; Approved 08/12/ 

2011). The survey is designed to enable 

pharmacies to assess staff opinions 

about patient and medication safety and 

quality-assurance issues, and includes 

36 items that measure 11 dimensions of 

patient safety culture. AHRQ made the 

survey publicly available along with a 

Survey User’s Guide and other toolkit 

materials in October 2012 on the AHRQ 

Web site. 

The AHRQ Pharmacy Survey on 

Patient Safety Culture (Pharmacy SOPS) 

Comparative Database consists of data 

from the AHRQ Pharmacy Survey on 

Patient Safety Culture. Pharmacies in 

the U.S. are asked to voluntarily submit 

data from the survey to AHRQ, through 

its contractor, Westat. The Pharmacy 

SOPS Database is modeled after three 

other SOPS databases: Hospital SOPS 

[OMB NO. 0935–0162; Approved 05/04/ 

2010]; Medical Office SOPS [OMB NO. 

0935–0196; Approved 06/12/12]; and 

Nursing Home SOPS [OMB NO. 0935– 

0195; Approved 06/12/12] that were 

originally developed by AHRQ in 

response to requests from hospitals, 

medical offices, and nursing homes 

interested in knowing how their patient 

safety culture survey results compare to 

those of other similar health care 

organizations. 

Rationale for the information 

collection. The Pharmacy SOPS survey 

and the Pharmacy SOPS Comparative 

Database will support AHRQ’s goals of 

promoting improvements in the quality 

and safety of health care in pharmacy 


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settings. The survey, toolkit materials, 

and comparative database results are all 

made publicly available on AHRQ’s 

Web site. Technical assistance is 

provided by AHRQ through its 

contractor at no charge to pharmacies, to 

facilitate the use of these materials for 

pharmacy patient safety and quality 

improvement. 

The goal of this project is to create the 

Pharmacy SOPS Comparative Database. 

This database will: 

(1) Allow pharmacies to compare 

their patient safety culture survey 

results with those of other pharmacies, 

(2) provide data to pharmacies to 

facilitate internal assessment and 

learning in the patient safety 

improvement process, and 

(3) provide supplemental information 

to help pharmacies identify their 

strengths and areas with potential for 

improvement in patient safety culture. 

This study is being conducted by 

AHRQ through its contractor, WESTAT, 

pursuant to AHRQ’s statutory authority 

to conduct and support research on 

healthcare and on systems for the 

delivery of such care, including 

activities with respect to the quality, 

effectiveness, efficiency, 

appropriateness and value of healthcare 

services and with respect to quality 

measurement and improvement. 42 

U.S.C. 299a(a)(1) and (2). 

Method of Collection 

To achieve these goals the following 

data collections will be implemented: 

(1) Registration Form—The point-ofcontact (POC), the pharmacy manager or 

a survey participating organization, 

completes a number of data submission 

steps and forms, beginning with 

completion of an online Registration 

Form. The purpose of this form is to 

collect basic demographic information 

about the pharmacy and initiate the 

registration process. 

(2) Pharmacy Background 

Characteristics Form—The purpose of 

this form, completed by the pharmacy 

manager or a participating organization, 

is to collect background characteristics 

of the pharmacy. This information will 

be used to analyze data collected with 

the Pharmacy SOPS survey. 

3) Data Use Agreement—The purpose 

of the data use agreement, completed by 

the pharmacy manager or participating 

organization is to state how data 

submitted by pharmacies will be used 

and provide confidentiality assurances. 

(4) Data Files Submission –POCs 

upload their data file(s), using the 

pharmacy data file specifications, to 

ensure that users submit standardized 

and consistent data in the way variables 

are named, coded, and formatted. The 

number of submissions to the database 

is likely to vary each year because 

pharmacies do not administer the 

survey and submit data every year. 

Survey data from the AHRQ 

Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety 

Culture are used to produce three types 

of products: (1) A Pharmacy SOPS 

Comparative Database Report that is 

made publicly available on the AHRQ 

Web site, (2) Individual Pharmacy 

Survey Feedback Reports that are 

confidential, customized reports 

produced for each pharmacy that 

submits data to the database (the 

number of reports produced is based on 

the number of pharmacies submitting 

each year); and (3) Research data sets of 

individual-level and pharmacy-level deidentified data to enable researchers to 

conduct analyses. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Exhibit 1 shows the estimated 

annualized burden hours for the 

respondent’s time to participate in the 

database. An estimated 150 POCs, each 

representing an average of 10 individual 

pharmacies each, will complete the 

database submission steps and forms 

annually. Completing the registration 

form will take about 5 minutes. The 

Pharmacy Background Characteristics 

Form is completed by all POCs for each 

of their pharmacies (150 x 10 = 1,500 

forms in total) and is estimated to take 

5 minutes to complete. Each POC will 

complete a data use agreement which 

takes 3 minutes to complete and 

submitting the data will take an hour on 

average. The total burden is estimated to 

be 296 hours. 

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated 

annualized cost burden based on the 

respondents’ time to submit their data. 

The cost burden is estimated to be 

$14,392 annually. 

EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Form name 

Number of 

respondents/

POCs 

Number of 

responses 

per POC 

Hours per response Total burden 

hours 

Registration Form ............................................................................................ 150 1 5/60 13 

Pharmacy Background Characteristics Form .................................................. 150 10 5/60 125 

Data Use Agreement ....................................................................................... 150 1 3/60 8 

Data Files Submission ..................................................................................... 150 1 1 150 

Total .......................................................................................................... 600 NA NA 296 

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN

Form name 

Number of 

respondents/ 

POCs 

Total burden 

hours 

Average 

hourly wage 

rate* 

Total cost 

burden 

Registration Form ............................................................................................ 150 13 $48.62 $632

Pharmacy Background Characteristics Form .................................................. 150 125 48.62 6,078 

Data Use Agreement ....................................................................................... 150 8 48.62 389 

Data Files Submission ..................................................................................... 150 150 48.62 7,293 

Total .......................................................................................................... 600 296 NA 14,392 

Mean hourly wage rate of $48.62 for 

General and Operations Managers (SOC 

code 11–1021) was obtained from the 

May 2012 National Industry-Specific 

Occupational Employment and Wage 

Estimates, NAICS 446110—Pharmacies 

and Drug Stores located at http://

www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics5_

446110.htm. 


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Request for Comments 

In accordance with the above-cited 

Paperwork Reduction Act legislation, 

comments on AHRQ’s information 

collection are requested with regard to 

any of the following: (a) Whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

AHRQ health care research, quality 

improvement and information 

dissemination functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

AHRQ’s estimate of burden (including 

hours and costs) of the proposed 

collection(s) of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information upon the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the Agency’s subsequent 

request for OMB approval of the 

proposed information collection. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. 

Dated: February 6, 2014. 

Richard Kronick, 

AHRQ Director. 

[FR Doc. 2014–03484 Filed 2–14–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approve the proposed 

information collection project: ‘‘AHRQ 

Grants Reporting System (GRS).’’ In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, 

AHRQ invites the public to comment on 

this proposed information collection. 

This proposed information collection 

was previously published in the Federal 

Register on December 6th, 2013 and 

allowed 60 days for public comment. 

One comment was received. The 

purpose of this notice is to allow an 

additional 30 days for public comment. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by March 20, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

Copies of the proposed collection 

plans, data collection instruments, and 

specific details on the estimated burden 

can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

AHRQ Grants Reporting System (GRS) 

AHRQ has developed a systematic 

method for its grantees to report project 

progress and important preliminary 

findings for grants funded by the 

Agency. This system, the Grants 

Reporting System (GRS), was first 

approved by OMB on November 10, 

2004. The system addressed the 

shortfalls in the previous reporting 

process and established a consistent and 

comprehensive grants reporting solution 

for AHRQ. The GRS provides a 

centralized repository of grants research 

progress and additional information that 

can be used to support initiatives within 

the Agency. This includes future 

research planning and support to 

administration activities such as 

performance monitoring, budgeting, 

knowledge transfer as well as strategic 

planning. 

This Project has the following goals: 

(1) To promote the transfer of critical 

information more frequently and 

efficiently and enhance the Agency’s 

ability to support research designed to 

improve the outcomes and quality of 

health care, reduce its costs, and 

broaden access to effective services; 

(2) To increase the efficiency of the 

Agency in responding to ad-hoc 

information requests; and 

(3) To support Executive Branch 

requirements for increased transparency 

and public reporting; 

(4) To establish a consistent approach 

throughout the Agency for information 

collection regarding grant progress and 

a systematic basis for oversight and for 

facilitating potential collaborations 

among grantees; and, 

(5) To decrease the inconvenience and 

burden on grantees of unanticipated adhoc requests for information by the 

Agency in response to particular (onetime) internal and external requests for 

information. 

Method of Collection 

Grants Reporting System—Grantees 

use the GRS to report project progress 

and important preliminary findings for 

grants funded by the Agency. Grantees 

submit a progress report on a quarterly 

basis which is reviewed by AHRQ 

personnel. All users access the GRS 

system through a secure online interface 

which requires a user id and password 

entered through the GRS Login screen. 

When status reports are due, AHRQ 

notifies Principle Investigators (PI) and 

Vendors via email. 

The GRS is an automated userfriendly resource that is utilized by 

AHRQ staff for preparing, distributing, 

and reviewing reporting requests to 

grantees for the purpose of information 

sharing. AHRQ personnel are able to 

systematically search on the information 

collected and stored in the GRS 

database. Personnel will also use the 

information to address internal and/or 

external requests for information 

regarding grant progress, preliminary 

findings, and other requests, such as 

Freedom of Information Act requests, 

and producing responses related to 

federally mandated programs and 

regulations. 

Estimated Annual Respondent Burden 

Exhibit 1 shows the estimated 

annualized burden hours for the 

respondents. It will take grantees an 

estimated 10 minutes to enter the 

necessary data into the Grant Reporting 

System (GRS) and reporting will occur 

four times annually. The total 

annualized burden hours are estimated 

to be 333 hours. 

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated 

annualized cost burden for the 

respondents. The total estimated cost 

burden for respondents is $11,772. 


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