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I started looking for HHS contracts to Urban Institute for developing the Transfer Income Model, version 3 (TRIM3). Along the way, I found some other contracts relevant to our work.
I ran a sam.gov query showing that Urban has received $285 million in federal contracts since 2010.
Urban's 2020 financial report shows that 34.5% of their funding comes from the federal government, or $39 million.
Specific projects
There's probably some way to query sam.gov or usaspending.gov for particular contracts, but I couldn't find it. Instead, I went to the HHS Service Contract Inventory for several past years. I combined the SCIs from 2011 to 2016 into this spreadsheet (filtered to Urban), and pulled out contracts related to the CCDF policy database, the TANF policy database, and microsimulation (which looks to be TRIM3) into this spreadsheet, summarized here:
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I started looking for HHS contracts to Urban Institute for developing the Transfer Income Model, version 3 (TRIM3). Along the way, I found some other contracts relevant to our work.
High level
https://datalab.usaspending.gov/contract-explorer shows that the HHS Assistant Secretary for Administration paid them $9.4 million in 2017. I would have expected that the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation would fund TRIM3, but they didn't show up.
I ran a sam.gov query showing that Urban has received $285 million in federal contracts since 2010.
Urban's 2020 financial report shows that 34.5% of their funding comes from the federal government, or $39 million.
Specific projects
There's probably some way to query sam.gov or usaspending.gov for particular contracts, but I couldn't find it. Instead, I went to the HHS Service Contract Inventory for several past years. I combined the SCIs from 2011 to 2016 into this spreadsheet (filtered to Urban), and pulled out contracts related to the CCDF policy database, the TANF policy database, and microsimulation (which looks to be TRIM3) into this spreadsheet, summarized here:
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