SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Developing Alternatives for Breast Cancer Screening Surveillance
- Notice Date
- 7/26/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Research Contracts Br., 6120 Executive Blvd. EPS Suite 600, Rockville, MD, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- NCI-20087-NG
- Response Due
- 8/10/2002
- Point of Contact
- Malinda Holdcraft, Purchasing Agent, Phone (301) 402-4509, Fax (301) 402-4513, - Caren Rasmussen, Lead Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 402-4509, Fax (301) 402-4513,
- E-Mail Address
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holdcram@exchange.nih.gov, rasmusc@mail.nih.gov
- Description
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI),Applied Research Program (ARP) plans to procure the services of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 100, Seattle, Washington 98101. This request for supplies/services is being prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Part 12. The North American Industry Classification System Code is 541990 and the business size standard is $5M. There is a growing need to automate survey collection and centralize health information that serves the needs of multiple care providers. Surveys provide a source of health information but contain both static and changing information. The challenge is to accumulate a full set of information and update the parts that will change so that there is a valid accurate source of information for people who need to know and care for an individual. The purpose of this project is to create a prototype automated survey system that efficiently gathers patient information and allows easy updating of existing data in the course of usual care related to breast cancer screening. Group Health Cooperative of Washington (GHC) has a long history of using survey data to both assist with clinical care and facilitate reminders to women due for mammograms. GHC is currently redesigning its data system infrastructure to create an automated clinical information system using Epic software. However, such software does not address population-based care that summarizes information for groups of people. Epic software does not allow activities such as outreach to those who may benefit from screening or chronic care management. In order to create the potential for outreach and build on its experience with organized screening, GHC is building a cancer management system that will create a tool for managing screening in populations including surveys and care reminders. This system relies, in large part, on survey data collected to determine risk of breast cancer and appropriate screening interval. Currently, paper surveys are used for this purpose and are administered. For the benefit of the NCI-affiliated National Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) sites, including the Group Health Cooperative and its patients, there is a further need to develop a rapid data collection system that provides updated data for those survey questions that change over time, and gathers that information efficiently in the course of usual care. Such a system must also accommodate the needs for a high level of data security that insures protection for individuals, be compliant with HIPPA, be structured to add additional questions, and be compatible with other automated data systems to which the information might be exported. The specific aims of this pilot study are: 1) To evaluate the hardware & software options for a HIPPA-compliant data collection system that would allow individuals to validate currently collected information, and update those items that could change; 2) To create a prototype proof of concept application that demonstrates the feasibility of automated survey collection in the course of mammography screening; 3) To provide a final survey software and system description to the NCI in a form that can be tested by Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium sites, including complete system specification. The scope of this project is limited to finding solutions specifically for breast cancer care. However, to be generally useful, the solution must allow application to other data collection efforts that depend on survey data. The primary outcome of this study consists of the development of a software application that allows collection of breast cancer risk and medical data. The application will be available in a form for testing throughout the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium. Requirements: During the project, the Contractor shall evaluate the viability of portable tablets, keyboards, and stationary personal computers as data collection platforms in radiology facilities. Issues to be investigated include concern about patient flow through the facility and loss of hardware, security of individual data, importation of previous survey responses, and export of individual data in a standard format for storage and use by other applications. Once a hardware solution is identified, the software programming of the breast cancer screening survey questions will be undertaken. A key issue in the software development shall be to ensure the capability to import prior responses to unchanging information, such as age at menarche or age at menopause, that is routinely asked within the National Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium but that could be directly updated from previously completed surveys. For example, when prior responses exist for a question, the software should have the capability to validate the data against the prior record and prompt the respondent to resolve any conflicts that arise. In a later phase of this effort, NCI anticipates that testing of the survey application will be conducted to evaluate whether the new method adversely effects data collection within mammography facilities and the breast cancer surveillance system. The utility of the system for updating unchanging data in an efficient manner will be tested. The program shall allow presentation of questions from the Surveillance consortium standard survey (long form) and the Breast Cancer Screening program questions. The contractor shall present a plan that details the following: 1) Description of the hardware options and compatibility with GHC system and other BCSC systems. 2) Description of system design and generalized interface for export and import of survey data, includes prototype specifications, a summary of interface implications for other Breast Cancer Screening Consortium facilities around the US, and summary of scope of prototype to be completed in the remaining project; 3) Approach to developing a prototype to a form that can be tested in clinical practice settings; 4) Approach to testing survey software and system use by evaluation in mammography center to provide system prototype to serve as a proof of concept; 5) Plans for deciding on design options and enhancements that would allow exports to either printers or monitors and the options for adding supporting material that women could query for educational purposes. The time line shall detail each phase of the study, including hiring of personnel, developing a plan for the review of available systems and the development of software summary report writing, and delivery of final survey software and system description. It is expected that the primary contractor shall collaborate with programmers and software development personnel outside, in order to meet the goals of this effort. The contractor is to provide adequate and appropriate staff, equipment, supplies, and space facilities necessary for carrying out the requirements of this procurement. The hardware description and design issues relevant to easy collection and exporting of the data shall be done with appropriate consultation with other Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium programming experts and national experts on survey research. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party believes it can meet the above requirements, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The capability statement and any other furnished information must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can fully meet the requirements herein. Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 1:00 PM EDT (local Washington DC time) on August 10, 2002. If you have any questions, please submit them in writing via electronic mail to Malinda Holdcraft, Purchasing Agent on holdcram@exchange.nih.gov or by fax 301-402-4513. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received shall be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No collect calls will be accepted.
- Place of Performance
- Address: NIH/NCI, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD
- Zip Code: 20892
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN00126180-W 20020728/020726213231 (fbodaily.com)
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