SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Patient Safety Research Coordinating Center
- Notice Date
- 4/27/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-04-0012
- Response Due
- 7/13/2004
- Archive Date
- 7/28/2004
- Point of Contact
- Mary Haines, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 427-1786, Fax 301 427-1740, - Sharon Williams, Contracting Officer, Phone 301 427-1781, Fax 301 427-1740,
- E-Mail Address
-
mhaines@ahrq.gov, swilliam@ahrq.gov
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is announcing a solicitation for the continued development and maintenance of a patient safety research coordinating center that will serve as a resource and support hub for integrating the various components of the Agency's patient safety initiative with one another, among Agency staff, and to some extent, among other federal and non-federal funding entities and the researchers they support. This is a recompetition, Westat is the incumbent contractor. The contract is planned to be issued for three years with two one-year options. For subcontracting purposes, the NAICS code is 541611 ($6.0 million). The center will support the Agency's work by providing technical assistance to grantees with respect to dissemination and diffusion efforts; formulating research results so they are of value to end-users, providing information to support the role of AHRQ project officers in monitoring the progress of projects; preparing information and draft reports for later submission by the Agency to the Congress and assisting with other publication efforts; facilitating communication and sharing of ideas and findings among the projects that take the form of organizing and providing logistical support for annual conferences, conducting quarterly telephonic conference calls among groups of grantees, conducting Steering Committee meetings composed of AHRQ project officers and principal investigators funded under the patient safety initiative, and managing and maintaining an extranet site for housing a wealth of patient safety grant and contract information; and synthesizing patient safety research findings stemming from the portfolio and developing tools and products of value to end-users responsible for improving the safety of patients. The coordinating center also shall ensure that information stemming from newly awarded patient safety grants such as those that are investigator-initiated or awarded through the Health Information Technology program are entered in a timely fashion into the coordinating center databases and that new grantees are invited to avail themselves to all the services and activities that the coordinating center offers. Prospective sources must have an understanding of recent developments in the medical error and patient safety research domains (e.g., epidemiology of error, reporting systems, clinical informatics, effects of working conditions, human factors and risk assessment methods, high reliability organizations) and be adept in working with Agency staff in managing multiple, simultaneous, large, complex projects; assisting and interacting with a highly educated group of research constituents, and in developing and maintaining communication networks, including Web site development, implementation, and maintenance. Staff must include a Project Director who shall have, at a minimum, no less than ten (10) years total work experience which includes 1) at least eight (8) years in the specialty services field (e.g., patient safety/medical error, healthcare services research methods), and 2) demonstrated skills in assisting researchers, facilitating communication networks, and synthesizing and disseminating information on a large, diverse set of patient safety projects. In addition to the solicitation being available on this site, it will also be available for downloading from the internet on AHRQ’s web site at http://www.ahrq.gov . Once in AHRQ’s home page, to “Funding Opportunities,” then “Contract Solicitations.” It is the offerors responsibility to monitor this site for release of the solicitation, download their own copy of the solicitation, and monitor the site for any subsequent amendments. Since it is not known who id downloading the solicitation, a bidders list will not be available. It is estimated that the solicitation will be issued on or about May 13, 2004 with proposals due July 13, 2004. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (27-APR-2004); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/HHS/AHRQ/DCM/AHRQ-04-0012/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00573483-F 20040429/040427212609 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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