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I saw a notice that the government intends to procure the services of a specific company to provide a tool for usability purposes. It seems that there is much less competition than I thought (a sole source is necessary). I thought more firms were capable of providing that service. Could it be that the company is the only one with the technical know-how or facilities to provide the tool?

I submitted another article for publishing.

I am planning to submit the paper I prepared on improving e-commerce websites for the Research Design course. I like that paper. In the paper, I included user/usability testing of website designs in a lab, much like the testing I assisted with at USPTO.

The professor was tough. I also did not have the textbook (due to financial constraints). I recall that one of the assignments required completion of exercises in the textbook. I actually visited the library at the University of Florida (UF) to get hold of the book. I got an older version of the textbook that sufficed. Then, I was able to start work on the assignment. (Here is the blog post on the assignment: http://moorefo1ncuresearchdesign.blogspot.com/2016/11/waiting-for-book-for-assignment.html

The library I visited was in the medical building/section on campus. I took the bus there. I rode that bus a lot.

The blog for the course is available at: http://moorefo1ncuresearchdesign.blogspot.com/

I discovered that the federal government awards contracts for usability testing. An example is the award of a contract to UserWorks, Inc. to conduct focus groups and usability testing of FirstGov.gov (see https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-awards-firstgov-usability-contract-to-userworks-of-silver-spring-md).

I am definitely interested in these opportunities.

From the company website, UserWorks (http://www.userworks.com/index.html) seems like a good company. It is a user experience design and usability engineering firm. The team there seems outstanding. I hope it is not true that the firm is going out of business.

I will look into other usability testing firms. Some consulting firms may have UX/UI departments/areas that bid for usability contracts. An example: I learned of a firm called Applied Information Sciences from the LinkedIn profile of UX Researcher Weimin Hou (https://www.linkedin.com/in/weiminhou) who has a PhD in Information Systems from UMBC, Human-Computer Interaction Track.

(Award of usability contract to UserWorks, Inc.)

This is a staffing firm but the IT version of it: https://www.upwork.com/ (website for contract workers by Upwork, formerly Odesk)