The Minnesota Department of Health requests proposals from qualified respondents to develop a request for information (RFI) to solicit methods of constructing comparisons between health care providers on a composite measure of cost and quality and to invite stakeholders to put forth ideas related to these efforts; to synthesize and organize material submitted in response to the RFI for the purposes of informing and supporting a work group; to conduct any additional background research necessary to complement responses to the RFI; to coordinate, facilitate and staff a formal work group process about how to most appropriately compare providers on a composite measure of cost and quality; and to write a preliminary and final report with the work groups recommendations.