SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Assessing The Impact Of Language Barriers & Interpreter Services on Cost & Quality of Health Care
- Notice Date
- 4/23/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 02T056217
- Response Due
- 5/6/2002
- Archive Date
- 5/21/2002
- Point of Contact
- Nora Tyson, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-443-5229, Fax 301-443-3238, - Joe Pirrone, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-443-4852, Fax 301-443-3238,
- E-Mail Address
-
ntyson@psc.gov, jpirrone@psc.gov
- Description
- PURPOSE: The Office Of Public Health and Science (OPHS), Office Of Minority Health (OMH), through the Program Support Center, plans to award a 14 month sole source contract using simplified acquisition procedures, to Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA. 02114. The anticipated date of award is May 6, 2002. The purpose of this contract is to conduct a study, as part of an urgently needed effort to build the science, related to the impact of providing-and not providing-language assistance services to limited-English proficient (LEP) populations in the context of health care delivery. Utilizing data from (an) ongoing or recently completed study/studies examining the impact of providing-not providing--interpreter services for LEP patients on medical errors/patient safety and other aspects of quality of health care, this study will examine the costs and benefits of providing such services, including the direct costs of interpreter services/savings from providing/not providing such services, and the costs and benefits resulting from medical errors and enhanced patient safety and/or other aspects of health care quality. The project will include an examination of data from actual clinical encounters between physicians-patients, design/development of a tool or instrument that can readily identify the nature and extent of medical errors due to language barriers (for LEP populations), initial creation of a model to estimate the impact of these errors on cost and quality of care, and comparisons of error frequency, cost and benefits, impacts, and outcomes between varying levels of interpreter services (no interpreters, untrained interpreters, and medically trained interpreters). The proposed simplified acquisition is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of far 6.302. Interested persons may identify their interest by responding to the requirement within 10 days after the date of publication of this notice. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed simplified acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No solicitation is available. For further information, please contact Nora Tyson in Rm. 5C-03, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD. 20857 or on 301-443-8826.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 50 Staniford Street,, Boston, MA
- Zip Code: 02114
- Country: usa
- Zip Code: 02114
- Record
- SN00064693-W 20020425/020423213112 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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