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(d) Data reported by each first-tier 

subcontractor providing services under 

the contract if required to do so. 

Section 743 of Division C of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 

(Pub. L. 111–117) requires executive 

agencies covered by the Federal 

Activities Inventory Reform Act (Pub. L. 

105–270), except DoD, to submit to 

OMB an annual inventory of activities 

performed by service contractors. DoD is 

exempt from this reporting requirement 

because 10 U.S.C. 4505(c) already 

require DoD to develop an annual 

service contract inventory. Civilian 

agencies use the service contract 

information provided by FAR clauses 

52.204–14 and 52.204–15 to supplement 

agency annual service contract reporting 

requirements with the contractorprovided service contract reporting 

information. 

5. FAR 52.204–16 and 52.204–18, 

Commercial and Government Entity 

(CAGE) Code Reporting and 

Maintenance. The provision at FAR 

52.204–16, Commercial and 

Government Entity Code Reporting, 

require offerors to provide their CAGE 

code, including name and location 

address, with their offer. The CAGE 

code must be for that name and location 

address. The CAGE code is required 

prior to award. The clause at FAR 

52.204–18, Commercial and 

Government Entity Code Maintenance, 

requires contractors to maintain their 

CAGE code throughout the life of the 

contract for each location of contract, 

including subcontract, performance. 

For contractors registered in SAM, the 

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) CAGE 

Branch shall only modify data received 

from SAM in the CAGE master file if the 

contractor initiates those changes via 

update of its SAM registration. 

Contractors undergoing a novation or 

change-of-name agreement shall notify 

the contracting officer in accordance 

with FAR subpart 42.12. The contractor 

shall communicate any change to the 

CAGE code to the contracting officer 

within 30 days after the change, so that 

a modification can be issued to update 

the CAGE code on the contract. 

Contractors located in the U.S. or its 

outlying areas that are not registered in 

SAM shall submit written change 

request to the DLA CAGE Branch. 

Contractors located outside the U.S. and 

its outlying areas that are not registered 

in SAM shall contact the appropriate 

National Codification Bureau points of 

contact to request CAGE changes. 

6. FAR 52.204–17, Ownership or 

Control of Offeror. This provision 

requires offerors to represent whether 

they are owned or controlled by another 

entity, and if so, to provide the CAGE 

code and name of such entity. 

The CAGE code system may be used, 

among other things, to— 

(a) Exchange data with another 

contracting activity, including contract 

administration activities and contract 

payment activities; 

(b) Exchange data with another 

system that requires the unique 

identification of a contractor entity; or 

(c) Identify when offerors are owned 

or controlled by another entity. 

7. FAR 52.204–20, Predecessor of 

Offeror. This provision requires offerors 

to identify if the offeror is, within the 

last three years, a successor to another 

entity that received a Federal 

Government award and, if so, to provide 

the CAGE code and legal name of the 

predecessor. 

The information on predecessors is 

used to identify such entities in the 

Federal Awardee Performance and 

Integrity Information System (FAPIIS) to 

allow retrieval of integrity and 

performance data on the most recent 

predecessor of an apparent successful 

offeror to whom award is anticipated. 

FAR 9.104–6 requires contracting 

officers to consult FAPIIS before 

awarding a contract that exceeds the 

simplified acquisition threshold. 

8. FAR 52.204–23, Prohibition on 

Contracting for Hardware, Software, and 

Services Developed or Provided by 

Kaspersky Lab Covered Entities. This 

clause requires contractors to report, in 

writing, to the contracting officer or, in 

the case of DoD, to the website at 

https://dibnet.dod.mil, any instance 

when the contractor identifies a covered 

article provided to the Government 

during contract performance, or if 

contractors are notified of such an event 

by subcontractors at any tier or any 

other source. 

Agency personnel will use the 

collected information to identify and 

remove prohibited hardware, software, 

or services from Government use. This 

information collection is required to 

comply with section 1634 of Division A 

of the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Pub. L. 115– 

91). 

C. Annual Burden 

Respondents: 353,291. 

Total Annual Responses: 843,253. 

Total Burden Hours: 387,083. 

Obtaining Copies: Requesters may 

obtain a copy of the information 

collection documents from the GSA 

Regulatory Secretariat Division by 

calling 202–501–4755 or emailing 

GSARegSec@gsa.gov. Please cite OMB 

Control No. 9000–0189, Certain Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Part 4 

Requirements. 

Janet Fry, 

Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, 

Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, 

Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of 

Governmentwide Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency For Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) 

announces a Special Emphasis Panel 

(SEP) meeting on ‘‘Implementing and 

Evaluating Patient-Centered Clinical 

Decision Support Strategies in RealWorld Settings(U18)’’ 

DATES: January 10th, 2025 

ADDRESSES: Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (Video Assisted 

Review), 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 

Maryland 20857. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jenny Griffith, Committee Management 

Officer, Office of Extramural Research, 

Education and Priority Populations, 

Division of Policy, Coordination, and 

Analysis, Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality, (AHRQ), 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 

20857. Telephone: (301) 427–1557. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Special 

Emphasis Panel is a group of experts in 

fields related to health care research 

who are invited by AHRQ, and agree to 

be available, to conduct on an as needed 

basis, scientific reviews of applications 

for AHRQ support. Individual members 

of the Panel do not attend regularly 

scheduled meetings and do not serve for 

fixed terms or a long period of time. 

Rather, they are asked to participate in 

particular review meetings which 

require their type of expertise. 

The SEP meeting referenced above 

will be closed to the public in 

accordance with the provisions set forth 

in 5 U.S.C. 1009(d), 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), 

and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Grant 

applications for ‘‘Implementing and 

Evaluating Patient-Centered Clinical 

Decision Support Strategies in RealWorld Settings(U18)’’ are to be reviewed 

and discussed at this meeting. The grant 

applications and the discussions could 


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disclose confidential trade secrets or 

commercial property such as patentable 

material, and personal information 

concerning individuals associated with 

the grant applications, the disclosure of 

which would constitute a clearly 

unwarranted invasion of personal 

privacy. 

Agenda items for this meeting are 

subject to change as priorities dictate. 

Dated: December 16, 2024. 

Marquita Cullom, 

Associate Director. 

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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: Information collection 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 (new): 

‘‘Supporting and Evaluating AHRQ’s 

Long COVID Care Network.’’ 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by February 18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by 

email at 

REPORTSCLEARANCEOFFICER@

ahrq.hhs.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 

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

email at 

REPORTSCLEARANCEOFFICER@

ahrq.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

Supporting and Evaluating AHRQ’s 

Long COVID Care Network 

Long COVID is a chronic condition in 

which people continue to experience 

persistent, varying, and potentially 

disabling impacts after the acute 

COVID–19 illness. Up to one third of 

people with COVID–19 experience Long 

COVID with the numbers higher in 

females, transgender and bisexual 

people, people without a college degree, 

and people with disability. Some of 

these groups often face barriers that can 

worsen the impact of Long COVID on 

their lives and complicate recovery. 

Some of the barriers they face include 

difficulty with healthcare access, 

communication and internet 

accessibility, lack of health insurance, 

lower health literacy, greater difficulty 

using patient portals and telemedicine, 

and greater medical and social 

vulnerabilities. 

Clinics to provide outpatient Long 

COVID care have emerged across the 

country to offer coordinated, 

multidisciplinary care that meets the 

complex, diverse, multi-system, and 

specialized needs of people with Long 

COVID. There are some Long COVID 

clinic models that share common 

elements including care coordination 

and access to multidisciplinary care. 

Though these clinics meet critical needs 

in the healthcare system, they face 

significant challenges including staffing 

shortages; long patient waitlists; lack of 

funding or reimbursement for some 

services; lack of clear treatment 

protocols; limited capacity to provide 

timely, comprehensive, coordinated, 

and person-centered care; and limited 

clinician knowledge and training in 

Long COVID management. Other 

barriers these clinics face include the 

limited number of Long COVID clinics 

and specialists, concentration of clinics 

in academic centers and urban areas, 

late recognition of Long COVID 

symptoms by clinicians, and delayed 

referral to Long COVID clinics or 

appropriate specialists. 

In response, AHRQ awarded grants to 

12 multidisciplinary Long COVID 

clinics across the country (the ‘‘AHRQ 

Long COVID Care Network’’) with the 

goal to expand access to comprehensive, 

coordinated, and person-centered care 

for people with Long COVID, 

particularly underserved populations 

that are disproportionately impacted by 

the effects of Long COVID. Specifically, 

the grants are designed to expand access 

and care, develop and implement new 

or improved care delivery models, foster 

best practices for Long COVID 

management, and support the primary 

care community in Long COVID 

education and management. 

The information and data collected 

for this study will facilitate an 

evaluation of the outcomes of AHRQ’s 

Long COVID Care Network. The 

evaluation reflects AHRQ’s mission to 

produce evidence to make healthcare 

safer, higher quality, more accessible, 

equitable, and affordable; and to work 

within the U.S. Department of Health 

and Human Services and with other 

partners to make sure that the evidence 

is understood and used. This study is a 

new data collection request, and the 

data to be collected are not available 

elsewhere unless obtained through this 

data collection. 

This project seeks to assess the 

following: 

(1) How is the AHRQ Long COVID 

Care Network implementing strategies 

to: 

(a) expand access to comprehensive, 

coordinated, person-centered care, 

(b) engage clinicians in Long COVID 

education and management, and 

(c) educate patients and communities 

about Long COVID? 

(2) What was the reach of the AHRQ 

Long COVID Care Network strategies, 

especially to underserved populations 

that are disproportionately impacted by 

the effects of Long COVID? 

(3) What were the patterns of: 

(a) service utilization, 

(b) patient outcomes and experiences, 

(c) referral streams, and 

(d) primary care communication and 

coordination within the AHRQ Long 

COVID Care Network? 

To answer these research questions 

AHRQ will implement two new data 

collections that require OMB approval. 

These data collections include: 

(1) Grantee Interviews—Conducted 

during annual site visits. At each site 

visit, up to five 90-minute interviews 

will be conducted—for a total of 60 

interviews across the 12 sites. Each 

interview will include up to two 

respondents—for a total of 120 

respondents across the sites. The 

interview respondents will include 

grantee principal investigators, research 

and clinical staff at grantee Long COVID 

clinics, and representatives from grantee 

partner organizations (such as primary 

care practices and community 

organizations). The primary purpose of 

the interviews is to query about how the 

grantees developed and implemented 

new or improved care delivery models, 

implementation strategies, and 

operational workflows; identified 

barriers and facilitators to 

implementation and mitigation 

strategies for implementation 

challenges; and considered the potential 

sustainability of their program when 

AHRQ funding ends. 

(2) Grantee Survey—The survey will 

be administered to each grantee 

annually. Each grantee’s assigned 

evaluation liaison, or their designated 

representative, will respond to the 

survey. The primary purpose of the 

survey is to collect data on the services 

and personnel at grantee Long COVID 

clinics and the costs and resources 

associated with the implementation of 

the grant. 


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