Specifications include, but are not limited to: A contract with a company that can provide ongoing, mixed-methods, process and outcome evaluation services to the COVID Health Equity grant program. The exact type and number of evaluation activities to be performed under this contract will be determined on an on-going basis through continuous consultation between the contractor and VDH evaluation staff. Activities may include, but not be limited to, 1. Community/Stakeholder Activities: a. Assisting with stakeholder engagement/involvement in evaluation design, implementation, reporting, and use (This may involve designing and delivering evaluation training and other capacity building activities.) b. Assisting with and/or co-leading the design, implementation, and reporting and use of community health assessments and other formative work to inform program design and development. (This work will be community-led whenever possible.) 2. Evaluation Planning and Design: a. Assisting with and/or leading evaluation planning and design activities, including but not limited to, program descriptions, logic models, evaluation questions, evaluation designs, indicator/measure development, identification of data sources, sampling plans, and other elements of evaluation designs and plans. 3. Evaluation Implementation: a. Assisting with and/or conducting evaluation data collections, including the design/identification, testing, and revision of data collection instruments; training and supervision of data collectors; data storage and management; quality assurance; etc. b. Assisting with and/or conducting data analysis, both quantitative and qualitative; as well as data interpretation, and triangulation and synthesis of data from multiple sources to improve understanding of evaluation results.