SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- National Bone Marrow Donor Registry
- Notice Date
- 1/31/2002
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Grants and Procurement Management, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13A-19, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-HRSA-NBMDR-SS
- Response Due
- 2/22/2002
- Archive Date
- 3/9/2002
- Point of Contact
- Keith Kennedy, Contract Spec., Phone 301.443.5352, Fax 301.443.5462, - Frank Murphy, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 443-5165, Fax (301) 443-6038,
- E-Mail Address
-
kkennedy@hrsa.gov, fmurphy@hrsa.gov
- Description
- The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) seeks information about sources capable of continuing operation of the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry (the Registry). The Public Health Service Act, Section 379, mandates the Registry to facilitate unrelated bone marrow transplantation by matching patients with volunteer unrelated donors. Successful marrow transplants require a close match of tissue types between patient and donor. The Act requires the Registry, among other things, to: (1) establish and maintain a Board of Directors that meets certain compositional requirements; (2) establish and manage a system for finding marrow donors suitably matched to unrelated patients who need a marrow transplant; (3) conduct public education activities regarding the availability of unrelated donor transplants facilitated by the Registry and the need for additional donors; (4) recruit and conduct tissue typing of potential marrow donors; (5) maintain a nationwide registry of potential volunteer donors and a scientific registry of recipients of unrelated donor transplants; (6) establish standards for tissue typing, donor selection criteria, and procedures for marrow collection and transportation; (7) collect, analyze and publish data pertinent to unrelated donor marrow transplantation and the operation of the Registry, including data concerning patient outcomes at each transplant center; (8) provide advocacy and case management services to patients and donors; and (9) conduct other activities to increase marrow donation and the success of unrelated donor marrow transplants, and to reduce the differences in the chances of finding a matched donor between Caucasians and other population groups. The Registry currently maintains formal agreements with numerous organizations in the U.S. and other countries, including 136 transplant centers, 91 donor centers, 16 foreign cooperative registries, 9 recruitment groups, 90 apheresis centers, 110 marrow collection centers, 11 cord blood banks, 22 laboratories, and 3 tissue repositories. The Registry contains 4.6 million volunteer potential donors. Each year, the Registry conducts approximately 8,000 searches for donors and facilitates nearly 2,000 transplants, many of them involving foreign donors or patients. The Registry must comply with Section 379 of the Public Health Service Act and other pertinent Federal requirements related to informed consent, confidentiality and privacy, data collection and publication, and computer security. The Registry submits proposed international agreements to HRSA for submission to the Department of State for clearance. Federal funding of the Registry began in 1987 with a grant from the Department of the Navy; Department of Health and Human Services funding began in 1990. The fiscal year 2002 HRSA appropriation for the Registry approximates $20 million. Sources of further information include the Public Health Service Act and the web sites of: the current Registry contractor, the National Marrow Donor Program (www.marrow.org), and the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry (www.ibmtr.org). You may obtain a paper copy of the current HRSA contract for the Registry by sending a self-addressed, pre-stamped envelope with your written request to Keith Kennedy, Health Resources and Services Administration, PKLN 13A-19, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857. Potential offerors may send a capability statement to Mr. Kennedy at the above address no later than February 22 specifically addressing the following criteria: (1) ability to establish and maintain a Board of Directors and committee structure; (2) ability to establish and ensure compliance with quality standards and operating procedures in health care; (3) ability to negotiate and manage large numbers of contracts with different types of health care organizations, in the U.S. and other countries; (4) ability to create and maintain a large automated registry in health care with the capability of conducting rapid searches of the registry using complex algorithms; (5) ability to establish and manage a program of donor recruitment, tissue typing and tissue repositories; (6) ability to establish and manage a program of public and professional education; (7) ability to provide patient advocacy services; and (8) ability to conduct a program of analysis and peer review published research in health care; and (9) past performance information concerning experience with projects similar in size and scope to the Registry above described.
- Record
- SN20020202/00020983-020131210143 (fbodaily.com)
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