About Westat
Westat is an employee-owned corporation known for the quality of its statistical design, data collection, and analysis work, and its expertise in communications. For more than 40 years, we have successfully provided research and consulting services across Government program areas, in fields as diverse as health and biomedicine, employment and training, social services, housing, environmental protection, transportation, and military human resources. With headquarters in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, we are conveniently located near our Federal Government clients.
Westat’s research, technical, and administrative staff of more than 2,000 is located at our headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. Westat also maintains research offices near our clients in Bethesda, Maryland; Durham, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Houston, Texas. Westat also has staff in Brazil, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, South Africa, China, and Thailand.
Westat’s most important resource is its diverse staff of more than 2,000 professionals. Included in this group are social scientists; management analysts; communications, public relations, and marketing professionals; web development experts; computer systems and related staff; program area specialists; and survey operations specialists. We offer a complete team of market researchers and behavioral scientists to lead projects involving market research, media analysis, and related services. Our staff includes some of the best-known names in the field of research statistics. We are thoroughly experienced in identifying target audiences, establishing marketing objectives, determining market trends, responding to public inquiries, developing communications products and programs, and providing recommendations on marketing strategies and tactics.
Westat uses a project-oriented management approach that enables us to assemble the most appropriate and responsive team for each assignment. With a long tradition of specialized research, we are qualified to address the most daunting research and marketing challenges facing Government agencies.
Westat’s Washington-area facilities provide the resources to support projects with diverse and complex requirements. In addition to our professional offices, our main campus houses a state-of-the-art Telephone Research Center, facilities to support mailing operations, a computer center, data preparation and processing facilities, a warehouse and distribution center, and a conference and training center. Many projects also make use of our in-house focus group facility and web usability lab, which include equipment for monitoring and recording sessions.
Westat is pleased to offer an expanded range of relevant services through our Federal Supply Schedule Contract for Advertising and Integrated Marketing Solutions (AIMS). This Federal Supply Schedule is a flexible, easy-to-use task order contract that is available to all Federal agencies, the District of Columbia, government-owned corporations, and the U.S. Postal Service. This catalog describes our services available through the AIMS contract mechanism and provides all of the necessary details concerning prices and the ordering of services.
