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EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS OVER 3 YEARS
Number of
respondents

Type of information collection

Number of
responses per
respondent

Hours per
response

Total burden
hours

Mail/email * ........................................................................................................................................
Telephone .........................................................................................................................................
Web-based ........................................................................................................................................
Focus Groups ....................................................................................................................................
In-person ...........................................................................................................................................
Automated ** ......................................................................................................................................
Cognitive Testing *** ..........................................................................................................................

6,000
600
3,000
1,500
600
1,500
600

1
1
1
1
1
1
1

20/60
40/60
10/60
2.0
1.0
1.0
1.5

2,000
400
500
3,000
600
1,500
900

Totals .........................................................................................................................................

13,800

na

na

8,900

* May include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change
** May include testing of database software, CAPI software or other automated technologies.
*** May include cognitive interviews for questionnaire or toolkit development, or ‘‘think aloud’’ testing of prototype Web sites.

EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED COST BURDEN OVER 3 YEARS
Number of
respondents

Type of information collection

Total burden
hours

Average
hourly
wage rate *

Total cost
burden

Mail/email ..........................................................................................................................................
Telephone .........................................................................................................................................
Web-based ........................................................................................................................................
Focus Groups ....................................................................................................................................
In-person ...........................................................................................................................................
Automated .........................................................................................................................................
Cognitive Testing ..............................................................................................................................

6,000
600
3,000
1,500
600
1,500
600

2,000
400
500
3,000
600
1,500
900

$38.06
38.06
38.06
38,06
38.06
38.06
38.06

$76,120
15,224
19,030
114,180
22,836
57,090
34,254

Totals .........................................................................................................................................

13,800

8,900

na

338,734

* Based upon the average wages for 29–000 (Healthcare Practitioner and Technical Occupations), ‘‘National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the
United States, May 2016,’’ U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#29-0000.

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Request for Comments
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act, 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 and health care 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.
Sharon B. Arnold,
Acting Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for Healthy Behavior
Challenge
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) located
within the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) announces the
launch of the Healthy Behavior Data
Challenge. The Healthy Behavior Data
Challenge responds to the call for new
ways to address the challenges and
limitations of self-reported health
surveillance information and tap into
the potential of innovative data sources
and alternative methodologies for public
health surveillance. Challenge
participants will propose data sources
and approaches for aggregating data
from wearable devices, mobile
applications and/or social media in the
areas of nutrition, physical activity,
sedentary behaviors, and/or sleep.
Conducted in two phases, Phase I
(Prototype Development) entails
Challenge participants developing a
concept proposal for obtaining data

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collected from wearable devices, mobile
applications and/or social media for
public health surveillance purposes. In
Phase II (Prototype Implementation), a
subset of submissions (up to 3) with
promising concepts will be invited to
test their proposed approaches for
ongoing public health surveillance.
DATES: The Challenge is effective April
28, 2017 and will conclude December
31, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Machell Town, National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway
NE., MS F–78, Chamblee, Georgia
30341; Email: BRFSSinnovations@
cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Award Approving Official: Anne
Schuchat, MD, (RADM, USPHS) Acting
Director, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, and Acting
Administrator, Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
The Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the
nation’s premier system of healthrelated telephone surveys that collect
state data about U.S. residents regarding
their health-related risk behaviors,
chronic health conditions, and use of
preventive services. Established in 1984
with 15 states, BRFSS now collects data
in all 50 states as well as the District of

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Columbia and three U.S. territories.
BRFSS completes more than 400,000
adult interviews each year, making it
the largest continuously conducted
health survey system in the world.
The collection of health data through
traditional surveillance modes
including telephone and in-person
interviewing, however, is becoming
increasingly challenging and costly with
declines in participation and changes in
personal communications. In addition,
the self-reported nature of responses
particularly in the areas of nutrition,
physical activity, sedentary behaviors,
and sleep has been a major limitation in
these surveillance systems, since selfreported data are subject to under/over
reporting and recall bias. Meanwhile,
the advent of new technologies and data
sources including wearable devices
(such as: Smart watches, activity
trackers, sleep monitors, etc.), mobile
health applications on smartphones or
tablets, and data from social media
represents an opportunity to enhance
the ability to monitor health-related
information and potentially adjust for
methodological limitations in
traditional self-reported data.
The Healthy Behavior Data (HBD)
Challenge will be conducted
concurrently with a similar challenge
proposed by the Public Health Agency
of Canada. This will enable the two
countries to learn from their respective
challenges and leverage information. We
expect increased efficiency with a dual
challenge.
Submissions will be accepted starting
April 28, 2017. The submission period
for phase I will end on July 31, 2017.
The Phase II (Prototype Implementation)
submission period will begin September
4, 2017 and end December 31, 2017. The
grand prize finalist is anticipated to be
announced in February of 2018.
Information on the Behavioral Risk
Factor Surveillance System can be
found at www.cdc.gov/brfss.
Subject of Challenge Competition
The Healthy Behavior Data Challenge
responds to the call for new ways to
address the challenges and limitations
of self-reported health surveillance
information and tap into the potential of
innovative data sources and alternative
methodologies for public health
surveillance.
The Healthy Behavior Data (HBD)
Challenge will support the development
and implementation of prototypes to use
these novel methodologies and data
sources (e.g., wearable devices, mobile
applications, and/or social media) to
enhance traditional healthy behaviors
surveillance systems in the areas of
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behaviors, and/or sleep among the adult
population aged 18 years and older in
the U.S. and U.S. territories.
Ideation Period
The Challenge will launch as an
ideation/open submission period in
which eligible participants (outlined in
Eligibility Rules) may register and
submit an entry onto the Challenge Web
site (https://www.challenge.gov/
challenge/the-healthy-behavior-datachallenge/). Information about the
Challenge and a link to the Challenge
Web site can also be found at
Challenge.gov. The 13-week ideation
period will be followed by a 16-week
resubmission period held for those who
were chosen by the judges as
semifinalists to further refine their idea.
The Challenge Web site serves as the
destination and submission portal.
Participants may find the Challenge
rules, eligibility criteria, evaluation
criteria, additional resources, and the
Challenge timeline on the Challenge
Web site or at Challenge.gov.
Submission Requirements
Entries not in compliance with the
submission requirements outlined
below will be ineligible for further
review and prize award. During the
open submission period, eligible
participants may register and submit an
entry onto the Challenge Web site, to
include:
Phase I (Prototype Development)
1. A completed HBD Challenge
Submission Template describing the
proposed project, project personnel and
data sources.
2. A PowerPoint or other visual
presentation of the proposed project
including purpose, methods and
anticipated outcomes of the proposed
approach, which could be used to
present the proposal to a judging panel.
3. A description of data that are
anticipated to be captured by the
proposed approach, comparability to the
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS), and, if applicable,
descriptions of online app(s), web-based
tools or communication devices used to
recruit or track subjects’ healthy
behavior information.
4. Proposal of a viable data source(s)
from a currently available or a feasible
future source (such as a proposed app
or online tool). HBD Challenge
participants may propose the use of
public and/or private data sources, as
long as respondent agrees to participate
and the respondent confidentiality and
privacy are maintained.
5. A demonstration of how CDC
would be able to access the data.

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6. A detailed outline of the
information that will be obtained.
7. A demonstration of how data will
be extracted and collected: Present the
format in which it will be stored.
8. A description of how the new data
source(s) could be linked with other
data sources, in a statistically robust
manner that could result in useful
public health insights, citing statistical
approaches and evidence to support the
proposal.
9. A focus on one or more behavioral
factors including physical activity,
sleep, sedentary behaviors, and/or
nutrition.
10. Information about the population
reached and generalizability of the
approach.
11. A description of how data could
be stratified by demographic
characteristics (e.g. age, sex, education,
geographic jurisdiction).
12. An indication of how information
gathered addresses some or all of the
following common metrics in one or
more of the healthy behavior topics
below:
a. Sleep:
i. Hours of sleep per night (sleep
duration)
ii. Amount of time awake (sleep quality)
iii. Number of times awake (sleep
quality)
iv. Number of adults reporting having
trouble getting to and staying asleep
v. Time to fall asleep
vi. Amount of time in REM vs. non-REM
sleep (duration of sleep stage)
vii. Heart rate
viii. Respiration
ix. Sleep behaviors such as snoring,
sleep talking, and sleep movement
b. Sedentary Behaviors:
i. Average number of hours per day
spent sedentary, excluding sleep
time
ii. Average number of hours per week
spent on a computer/screen
including watching TV, videos,
playing computer games, emailing
or using the internet
iii. Sedentary data with additional
information on location (work,
school, community, etc.) broken
down by weekday and weekend day
c. Nutrition:
i. Total calories consumed per day
ii. Consumption of fruit (not including
juices) by day, week, or month
iii. Consumption of green leafy or
lettuce salads, with or without other
vegetables, by day, week, or month
iv. Consumption of vegetables (not
including lettuce salads and
potatoes) by day, week, or month
v. Number of sugar-sweetened beverages
consumed by day, week, or month

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vi. Number of caffeinated drinks
consumed by day, week, or month
d. Physical activity:
i. Minutes of moderate-to-vigorous
physical activity (MVPA) per day
(ideally by location—work, school,
in community)
ii. Daily number of steps
iii. Miles/km (Distance) on foot
iv. Number of days of physical activity/
week or month (and established
number of days in one month)
v. Minutes of moderate-to-vigorous
physical activity (MVPA) per day
(ideally by location—work, school,
in community) broken down by
week day and weekend day.
vi. Calories burned
vii. Type of activity (aerobic, strength,
etc.)
viii. Active minutes
ix. Duration of exercise
x. Flights of stairs climbed
xi. Average and peak heart rate
xii. Occupational physical activity and
active chores amount: (location of
physical activity)
xiii. Number of hours of reported
physical activities while at work, in
or around household
xiv. Leisure time physical activity
amount:
xv. # of hours per week adult
participants spent in sports, fitness
or recreational physical activities,
organized or non-organized, that
lasted a minimum of 10 continuous
minutes
xvi. Number of adults reporting and
time spent walking or cycling to
work or school
Participants may also choose to
suggest additional metrics in the areas
of nutrition, physical activity, sedentary
behaviors, and/or sleep. If additional
metrics are included, the participant
should include a short description of
the data and how it might inform public
health efforts (such information and
data will be collected in accordance
with any applicable laws and
regulations).

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Phase II (Prototype Implementation
Phase)
During The Phase II Prototype
Implementation Phase, the six
submissions selected under Phase I will
test their solutions, utilizing their
previously collected data from 300 or
more adults (aged 18 and above)
residing in the U.S. or its territories.
During this phase there will be an
opportunity for HBD Challenge
participants to incorporate data from
existing surveys including the
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
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Phase II (Prototype Implementation)
allows applicants to test proposals
developed in Phase I. The prototype is
a demonstration of possible methods for
supplementing data from existing
surveillance systems (such as the
BRFSS). This prototype is not meant to
be merged with existing surveillance
systems, but rather to complement data
collected with current infrastructures.
At the end of implementation HBD
Challenge participants should be able
to:
1. Compare data obtained by the
prototype to data from the BRFSS in the
areas of nutrition, physical activity,
sedentary behaviors, and/or sleep.
2. Demonstrate how data from the
included participants could be stratified
by demographics (age, sex, education,
etc.).
3. Demonstrate the ease of adding
additional types of mobile applications
and wearable devices to existing survey
methodologies.
4. Report that describes the prototype/
methodology and the prototype’s
anticipated strengths and limitations for
surveillance.
5. Demonstrate the applicability of the
non-traditional data source(s) for
ongoing public health surveillance
purposes.
6. Describe the prototype in detail,
including purpose, method, outcomes
and comparability to data obtained from
the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS).
7. Provide a working prototype
including data (in Excel format)
obtained using the prototype from 300
or more adult respondents residing in
the U.S. or its territories. The data must
include the age, gender, location, and at
least one of the measures associated
with the HBD Challenge in the areas of
nutrition, physical activity, sedentary
behaviors and/or sleep.
8. Provide a PowerPoint presentation
to the judges and invited CDC personnel
which includes information on the
purpose, methods, outcomes and
comparability to the BRFSS.
Submissions must be free of security
threats and/or malware. Applicants/
Contestants agree that CDC may conduct
testing on the product/submission to
determine whether malware or other
security threats may be present. CDC
may disqualify the product if, in CDC’s
judgment, the app may damage
government or others’ equipment or
operating environment or if the app, in
CDC’s judgment, is inconsistent with
CDC’s public health mission, utilizes
software or other technologies without
appropriate licenses, or any other reason
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How To Enter
Participants may enter by visiting
healthdatachallenge.gov and
challenge.gov and following the
instructions for submission. The U.S.
and Canadian challenges are being run
in parallel and U.S. entrants should
submit to this contest via challenge.gov
and Canadian citizens to the Canadian
contest found at
healthdatachallenge.gov.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the
Competition
To be eligible to win a prize under
this challenge, an individual or entity—
(1) Shall have registered to participate
in the competition under the rules
promulgated by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention;
(2) Shall have complied with all the
requirements under this section;
(3) In the case of a private entity, shall
be incorporated in and maintain a
primary place of business in the United
States, and in the case of an individual,
whether participating singly or in a
group, shall be a citizen or permanent
resident of the United States; and
(4) May not be a Federal entity or
Federal employee acting within the
scope of their employment.
(5) Shall not be an HHS employee
working on their applications or
submissions during assigned duty
hours.
(6) Are an individual or team
comprised of members each of who are
18 years of age or over.
(7) Are not on the Excluded Parties
List System located at www.sam.gov.
Additionally:
(a) Federal grantees may not use
Federal funds to develop challenge
applications unless consistent with the
purpose of their grant award. Federal
contractors may not use Federal funds
from a contract to develop challenge
applications or to fund efforts in
support of a challenge submission.
(b) Employees of CDC, and/or any
other individual or entity associated
with the development, evaluation, or
administration of the Challenge as well
as members of such persons’ immediate
families (spouses, children, siblings,
parents), and persons living in the same
household as such persons, whether or
not related, are not eligible to
participate in the Challenge.
(c) An individual or entity shall not
be deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal
facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the
facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities
participating in the competition on an
equitable basis.

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(d) Applicants must agree to assume
any and all risks and waive claims
against the Federal Government and its
related entities, except in the case of
willful misconduct, for any injury,
death, damage, or loss of property,
revenue, or profits, whether direct,
indirect, or consequential, arising from
their participation in a competition,
whether the injury, death, damage, or
loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
(e) A solution may be disqualified if
it fails to function as expressed in the
description provided by the user, or if
it provides inaccurate or incomplete
information.
(f) CDC reserves the right to disqualify
participants from the Challenge for
inappropriate, derogatory, defamatory,
or threatening comments or
communication through the Challenge
Web site or on the Challenge.gov Web
site.
(g) Submissions must be free of
security threats and/or malware.
Applicants/Contestants agree that CDC
may conduct testing on the product/
submission to determine whether
malware or other security threats may
be present. CDC may disqualify the
product if, in CDC’s judgment, the
product may damage government or
others’ equipment or operating
environment.
(h) Applicants must obtain liability
insurance or demonstrate financial
responsibility in the amount of $0 for
claims by: (1) A third party for death,
bodily injury, or property damage, or
loss resulting from an activity carried
out in connection with participation in
a competition, with the Federal
Government named as an additional
insured under the registered applicant’s
insurance policy and registered
applicant’s agreeing to indemnify the
Federal Government against third party
claims for damages arising from or
related to competition activities; and (2)
the Federal Government for damage or
loss to Government property resulting
from such an activity. Applicants who
are a group must obtain insurance or
demonstrate financial responsibility for
all members of the group.
(i) By participating in the Challenge,
each Applicant agrees to comply with
and abide by these Official Rules, Terms
& Conditions and the decisions of the
Federal Agency sponsors and/or the
individual judges, which shall be final
and binding in all respects.
Registration Process for Participants
To register for this Challenge,
participants can access https://
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anytime during the proposal submission
period stated above to register.
Amount of the Prize
In Phase I (Prototype Development),
participants will compete for a $30,000
prize pot from which up to six teams or
submissions will be selected to receive
a $5000 prize each).
In phase II, up to 3 participants will
compete for a $70,000 prize pot. The
following prizes will be awarded:
One First Place winner of $40,000
One Second Place winner of $20,000
One Third Place winner of $10,000
Three (3) winners will be notified via
email.
Payment of the Prize
Prizes awarded under this
competition will be paid by electronic
funds transfer and may be subject to
Federal income taxes. HHS will comply
with the Internal Revenue Service
withholding and reporting
requirements, where applicable.
Basis Upon Which Winner Will Be
Selected
A review panel composed of subjectmatter experts will judge eligible HBD
Challenge entries. A judging panel will
make final winner selections based
upon the criteria outlined below and in
compliance with the HHS Competition
Judging Guidelines.
Phase I Scoring Criteria
All Criteria are scaled 1–5, with 1
being the lowest score on each
dimension and 5 being the highest score
on each dimension. Scores are weighted
by the proportion of each dimension
and then aggregated to create a final
score.
1. Efficacy of Prototype (20%)
1 = Prototype is likely to not work in
a way that is statistically appropriate/5
= Prototype is likely to successfully
collect, and harmonize data, in a
statistically robust manner, across
multiple data sources to address
common metrics.
2. Promise of Comparability to BRFSS
Findings (20%)
1 = Prototype does not consider
stratification parameters, or applies to
only a narrow population/5 = Prototype
holds promise for capturing data that is
valid, reliable, and representative of a
large population.
3. Acceptability (15%)
1 = All parties expressed concerns
with data being used in terms of
respondent privacy, feasibility and
utility/5 = All parties involved are
comfortable with data being used in
terms of respondent privacy, feasibility

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and utility. NOTE: This means that
federal and state restrictions on data
collection and assurance of
confidentiality are being respected. Any
proposals that appear to violate the
Privacy Act, HIPAA, and FERPA will be
unacceptable. (Mandatory criteria; if not
scored 5, prototype may be
disqualified).
4. Innovation (15%)
1 = Prototype duplicates existing
approach/5 = Prototype presents a novel
approach.
5. Feasibility of Prototype (15%)
1 = Prototype is not feasible due to
factors like cost, availability of data,
etc./5 = Prototype is feasible and
addresses potential implementation
challenges by offering solutions.
6. Generalizability (10%)
1 = Prototype is not generalizable to
a range of data sources/5 = Prototype is
generalizable to a range of data sources.
7. Breadth of Data Collected (Scope)
(5%)
1 = Prototype does not address
required metrics, across the identified
content area(s)/5 = Prototype includes
required metrics.
Phase II Scoring Criteria
All Criteria are scaled 1–5, with 1
being the lowest score on each
dimension and 5 being the highest score
on each dimension. Scores are weighted
by the proportion of each dimension
and then aggregated to create a final
score. Judging criteria for Phase II
include:
• Data quality (20%)
1 = Prototype does not provide data
that are likely to be valid or reliable or
representative of a population/5 =
Prototype provides data that
demonstrate validity, reliability, and
representativeness.
• Ability to complement BRFSS
Findings (20%)
1 = Prototype does not outline steps
to complement BRFSS efforts/5 =
Prototype is provides data which can
complement and/or supplement
measures collected by the BRFSS or
other publically available traditional
surveillance systems.
• Validation of or Enhancement of
existing national public health
surveillance data (20%)
1 = Prototype cannot be statistically
aligned with currently available health
data/5 = Prototype statistically aligns
with available data across population
sub-groups.
• Flexibility (10%)
1 = Prototype does not demonstrate
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data and data sources/5 = Prototype
demonstrates flexibility in the ability to
add different data types and data from
additional sources.
• Simplicity (structure and ease of
operation) (10%)
1 = Prototype’s structure and
operation is complex/5 = Prototype’s
structure is clear and easy to implement;
it is not burdensome on current systems.
• Resources for system operation (10%)
1 = Prototype requires heavy resource
burden in terms of cost, training,
administration, infrastructure/5 =
Prototype has low resource burden in
terms of cost, training, administration,
infrastructure.
• Timeliness (5%)
1 = there is a significant gap in time
between data collection and analysis/5
= there is a real-time monitoring
through the collected data.
• Stratification by Demographics (5%)
1 = Prototype is unable to stratify the
data by key demographics/5 = Prototype
is able to stratify the data by age, sex,
education, and race/ethnicity.

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Additional Information
An individual or entity shall not be
deemed ineligible because the
individual or entity used Federal
facilities or consulted with Federal
employees during a competition if the
facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities
participating in the competition on an
equitable basis.
Participants must also agree to assume
any and all risks and waive claims
against the Federal Government and its
related entities, except in the case of
willful misconduct, for any injury,
death, damage, or loss of property,
revenue, or profits, whether direct,
indirect, or consequential, arising from
my participation in this prize contest,
whether the injury, death, damage, or
loss arises through negligence or
otherwise.
Participants are required to obtain
liability insurance or demonstrate
financial responsibility in the amount of
$0, for claims by a third party for death,
bodily injury, or property damage, or
loss resulting from an activity carried
out in connection with participation in
a challenge.
Participants must also agree to
indemnify the Federal Government
against third party claims for damages
arising from or related to HBD Challenge
activities.
CDC reserves the right to cancel,
suspend, and/or modify the HBD
Challenge, or any part of it, for any
reason, at CDC’s sole discretion.

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Compliance With Rules and Contacting
Contest Winners
Finalists and the Contest Winners
must comply with all terms and
conditions of these Official Rules, and
winning is contingent upon fulfilling all
requirements herein. The initial finalists
will be notified by email, telephone, or
mail after the date of the judging.
Awards may be subject to Federal
income taxes, and the Department of
Health and Human Services will comply
with the Internal Revenue Service
withholding and reporting
requirements, where applicable.
Intellectual Property (IP) Rights
• Applicants are free to discuss their
submission and the ideas or
technologies that it contains with other
parties; encouraged to share ideas/
technologies publicly; encouraged to
collaborate or combine with other teams
to strengthen their solutions; and are
free to contract with any third parties.
Applicants should be aware that any
agreement signed or obligation
undertaken in regards to their
participation in this HBD Challenge that
conflicts with the HBD Challenge rules,
terms and conditions may result in
disqualification of the Applicant’s
submission.
• Upon submission, each Applicant
warrants that he or she is the sole author
and owner of the work and any
pertinent Intellectual Property (IP)
rights, that the work is wholly original
of the Applicant (or is an improved
version of an existing work that the
Applicant has sufficient rights to use—
including the substantial improvement
of existing open-source work), and that
it does not infringe any copyright or any
other rights of any third party of which
Applicant is aware. Each Applicant also
warrants that the work is free of security
threats and/or malware.
• Applicants retain ownership of the
data that they develop and deliver
under the scope of the HBD Challenge,
including any software, research
product, or other intellectual property
(‘‘IP’’) that they develop in connection
therewith. Applicants agree to grant a
license to the Federal Agency sponsor
(CDC) for the use of the IP developed in
connection with the HBD Challenge as
set forth herein.
• Each Applicant must clearly
delineate any Intellectual Property (IP)
and/or confidential commercial
information contained in a submission
that is owned by the Applicant, and
which the Applicant wishes to protect
as proprietary data.
• Upon completion of the HDB
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grant CDC an unlimited, non-exclusive,
royalty-free, worldwide license and the
right to reproduce, publically perform,
publically display, and use the
Submission, including, without
limitation, for promotional purposes
relating to the HBD Challenge.
• All materials submitted to CDC as
part of a submission become CDC
agency records. Any confidential
commercial or financial information
contained in a submission must be
clearly designated at the time of
submission.
• If the Submission includes any
third party works (such as third party
content or open source code), Applicant
must be able to provide, upon request,
documentation of all appropriate
licenses and releases for use of such
third party works. If Applicant cannot
provide documentation of all required
licenses and releases, Federal Agency
sponsors reserve the right, at their sole
discretion, to disqualify the Submission.
Conversely, they may seek to secure the
licenses and releases and allow the
applicable Submission to remain in the
HBD Challenge, while reserving all
applicable Federal agency rights with
respect to such licenses and releases.
Privacy
If Contestants choose to provide the
CDC with personal information by
registering or filling out the submission
form through the Challenge.gov Web
site, that information is used to respond
to Contestants in matters regarding their
submission, announcements of entrants,
finalists, and winners of the Contest.
Information is not collected for
commercial marketing. Winners are
permitted to cite that they won this
contest.
General Conditions
The CDC reserves the right to cancel,
suspend, and/or modify the Contest, or
any part of it, for any reason, at CDC’s
sole discretion.
Participation in this Contest
constitutes a contestants’ full and
unconditional agreement to abide by the
Contest’s Official Rules found at
www.Challenge.gov.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: April 26, 2017.
Sandra Cashman,
Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2017–08778 Filed 4–27–17; 8:45 am]
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