SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Patient Safety Program Evaluation Center
- Notice Date
- 4/5/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Division of Contracts Management, 2101 East Jefferson Street, Suite 601, Rockville, MD, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-02-0010
- Response Due
- 6/4/2002
- Archive Date
- 6/19/2002
- Point of Contact
- Mary Haines, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 594-7193, Fax 301 443-7523, - Jacquelyn Carey, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 594-7191, Fax 301 443-7523,
- E-Mail Address
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mhaines@ahrq.gov, jcarey@ahrq.gov
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting proposals to establish and implement a Patient Safety Program Evaluation Center, through full and open competition, under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 541611 ($6 million). ANNOUNCEMENT. The Program Evaluation Center will be responsible for the design and implementation of an evaluation of the various components of the Agency?s patient safety initiative. There are 94 individually funded grants and contracts to be included in the program evaluation activity of the center. A complete listing of the patient safety projects to be evaluated can be found on the AHRQ web site http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/ps2001.htm . The evaluation center shall provide overall evaluation of the AHRQ patient safety initiative and collect and analyze evaluation data generated by various grants. The program evaluation center shall coordinate evaluation activities with the activities of ARHQ?s Patient Safety Research Coordination Center (PSRCC) under contract to Westat. Specifically, the evaluation center shall support the Agency?s work with grantees related to program evaluation including instrument development and data analysis. The evaluation center shall also produce products (e.g., instruments and other evaluation measures and develop databases) that shall facilitate work on patient safety by researchers and policymakers (particularly at the state level). The evaluation center shall also create useful measures of patient safety that can serve as patient safety quality indicators that shall be used as part of the National Quality Report. The objective of this contract is to establish a patient safety program evaluation center that shall: (1) develop and implement an overall evaluation plan for patent safety projects funded by AHRQ consistent with Agency requirements, GPRA requirements, initiative intents, and Congressional mandates; (2) develop baseline patient safety evaluation measures for determining context and antecedent conditions existing prior to initiation or at the beginning of implementation of AHRQ?s patient safety research initiative; (3) utilizing formative evaluation procedures, monitor progress at meeting initiative intents and objects and make recommendations for improvement; (4) assess overall initiative impacts, outcomes, and adoption diffusion using both qualitative and quantitative assessment approaches; (5) document and prepare evaluation reports to various audiences and stakeholders indicating the results of AHRQ?s funded patient safety research and project activities. The Director of the Program Evaluation Center and other senior staff who will manage work to be performed under this contract should hold an advanced technical or professional degree, at the PhD level, and should have significant experience in program evaluation of complex research projects and programs within the health sciences and/or social sciences. The Director should also possess corporate level management experience that reflects an ability to command organizational resources and direct staff within the broader organization. The period of performance is anticipated to be four years with three one-year options. In addition to the solicitation being available at this site, it will also be available for downloading from the internet on AHRQ?s site at http://www.ahrq.gov. Once in AHRQ?s home page, look under ?Funding Opportunities;? and then ?Contract Solicitations.? It is ithe offeror?s responsibility to monitor AHRQ?s Internet site for the release of the solicitation and any subsequent amendments. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and any subsequent amendments. Since it is not known who is downloading the solicitation, a bidders list will not be available. It is estimated that the solicitation will be available for downloading on or about April 23, 2002 with proposals due June 4, 2002.
- Record
- SN00054103-W 20020407/020405213206 (fbodaily.com)
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