SOLICITATION NOTICE
Q -- Laboratory Testing & Technical Assistance for the ADAM Program
- Notice Date
- 1/23/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Office of Justice Program, OJP/Acquisition Management Division, 810 Seventh Street NW, Washington, DC, 20531
- ZIP Code
- 20531
- Solicitation Number
- OJP-2002-R-002
- Response Due
- 3/4/2002
- Archive Date
- 3/19/2002
- Point of Contact
- Carrie Ferguson, Contracting Officer, Phone 202-616-1901, Fax 202-307-0086, - John Young, Contracting Officer, Phone 202-305-7745, Fax 202-307-0086,
- E-Mail Address
-
ferguson@ojp.usdoj.gov, youngjo@ojp.usdoj.gov
- Description
- The Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is seeking a certified Health and Human Services Laboratory Contractor to provide personnel, equipment, and materials necessary to support NIJ's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring program by processing urine specimens that are generated by this program and work directly with the ADAM Data Collection Contractor (DCC). This requirement shall be for four years (base year plus three option years). The ADAM DCC will collaborate with NIJ on the design, implementation, and management of the ADAM program. The ADAM DCC is the National Opinion Research Center, 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. The contract number is OJP-2001-C-003. The ADAM program will operate in a minimum of 35 sites and a maximum of 75 sites throughout the United States by the end of the second contract option year, fiscal year 2005. The expansion is subject to modification based on future decisions made by NIJ that will be dependent on potential funding and policy redirection. The contractor shall follow the guidelines that are current operating procedures and any modified procedures in place for the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program. The anticipated ADAM data collection procedures are as follows: In each site, for approximately 2 weeks every quarter, trained interviewers will collect voluntary and anonymous interviews and urine specimens from adult male, adult female, juvenile male, and juvenile female booked arrestees. On occasion, additional bioassay will be collected from sampled arrestees. Interview data will detail, among other things, self reports of drug use. Urine specimens shall be screened. Names or other personal identifiers will not be collected, but a common ID number shall be attached to the interview form, the specimen container, and any addenda instruments so that information from a specific interview can be matched to a specific specimen. The Urine specimens will be screened for a panel of ten drugs and all amphetamine positives will be confirmed by GC/MS for methamphetamine positives. Each site shall send urine specimens to a central laboratory where the specimens will be screened for a minimum of ten drugs. The results shall be delivered to DCC both via mail and email. At DCC, the urinalysis results will then be merged with the interview data, analyzed by DCC and/or NIJ, and reported on a quarterly and annual basis. It is strongly recommended that applicants review past ADAM publications and annual reports. Recent ADAM publications may be obtained from the National Institute of Justice/National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Box 600, Rockville, MD 20850, by phone at 1-800-851-3420 or on the web at askncjrs@ncjrs.org, or at the ADAM web site at www.adam-nij.net. At each site, urine specimens will be separated by gender and by age groups -- adult male, adult female, juvenile female, and juvenile male -- and will be boxed separately, and then mailed to the laboratory. Since sites collect data over a 10-day to 3-week period, urine specimens will usually be mailed in batches. Urine specimens will not usually be refrigerated at the site, but will be normally mailed within one to three days of data collection. After the last box of urine specimens for a gender/age group is shipped out, the site will fax an End-of-Batch notification (Attachment VI) to both DCC and Laboratory contractor to indicate that data collection for that gender/age group has been completed. Data collection shall take place on a quarterly basis in each site on a staggered schedule. Thus, in a given calendar quarter, it will be likely that at least one site will be collecting data in any given month. In addition, adult and juvenile specimens will usually be collected at different times within each quarter. In contract option year-3, each site shall collect data through an outreach program on an annual basis in coordination with the Local Coordinating Councils (LCC). The outreach program will possibly constitute a fifth quarter of data collection for the site. The specific location of the outreach program may change on an annual basis, and it may be conducted at different points during the year, as local conditions warrant. NIJ will contract separately with a Data Collection Contractor (DCC) for data entry, preliminary analysis of the data, and site operations management. All laboratory urine results will be sent directly to the DCC. None of the data can be released to the sites without NIJ's permission. Results will be reported separately for each gender/age group both on paper and electronically by an electronic data transfer method specified by the DCC. List of 35 ADAM Sites and 3 Affiliate Sites (*) with ID Numbers are listed below: 01 New York, 03 Portland, 04 San Diego, 05 Indianapolis, 06 Houston, 07 Fort Lauderdale, 08 Detroit, 09 New Orleans,10 Phoenix, 11 Chicago, 13 Dallas, 14 Birmingham, 15 Omaha, 16 Philadelphia, 17 Miami, 18 Cleveland, 19 San Antonio, 22 San Jose, 23 Denver, 24 Atlanta, 25 Albuquerque, 26 Minneapolis, 27 Sacramento, 28 Tucson, 29 Anchorage, 30 Des Moines, 31 Laredo, 32 Las Vegas, 33 Oklahoma City, 34 Salt Lake City, 35 Seattle, 36 Spokane, 37 Honolulu, 90 Capital Area, and 91 Charlotte-Metro. The contractor shall operate, develop, and complete the urinalysis of a minimum of 115,520 (four times the minimum of 28,880 during the base year for 35 sites and in each year of the contract) and a maximum of 233,268 urine specimens; in conducting hair, saliva, and sweat patch or other analyses; and providing the technical expertise of a chemist throughout a four-year contract period. It is anticipated that this will be an indefinite delivery indefinite quantity, time and material, fixed price contract. Due to the September 11, 2001, crisis, plan to ship proposals via express mail. Proposals will be evaluated using the best value approach. Interested firms shall submit their requests for the request for proposal (RFP) in writing not later than 15 days after the publication of this announcement to the address specified above. Facsimile requests are accepted. The fax number is (202) 307-0086. Requests may also be emailed at ferguson@ojp.usdoj.gov. Telephone requests will not be honored. *************
- Place of Performance
- Address: Potential Contractor Facility
- Record
- SN20020125/00017866-020123210126 (fbodaily.com)
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