SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- NATIONAL ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION RECOVERY MONTH
- Notice Date
- 2/9/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- 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
- Reference-Number-05M000070
- Response Due
- 2/24/2005
- Archive Date
- 3/11/2005
- Description
- The Substance and Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, (DHHS), through the Program Support Center, intends to negotiate a sole-source award with The Johnson Institute, Washington, DC . Purpose: The Johnson Institute has addressed barriers to addiction prevention, treatment and recovery since the 1960s. The organization grew from a church study group at St. Martin?s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, where Rev. Vernon Johnson, Irene Whitney and others with personal experience in recovery, challenged the idea that an alcoholic could not get help until he or she naturally reached a ?bottom? ? a state of surrender usually occurring after family, job, finances or other supports had evaporated. They developed a method of ?intervention? that penetrated the barrier of denial and helped the alcoholic to accept professional care. The mission/goal of Johnson Institute is to address the barriers to recovery and includes the training thousands of counselors around the world, pioneering in workplace ?employee assistance? systems, and addressing family and youth aspects of addiction disease. Johnson Institute is an organization of recovered individuals and family members with a variety of professional skills and a passion for conquering chemical dependency in our lifetime. Johnson Institute supports innovation in science and practice, a strong voice for the recovery community, a family view of the illness, and significant efforts to identify and arrest illness in its earliest evidence. Through their work in communities and their belief in the importance of family, Johnson Institute worked in 2004, 2003 and 2002 with the Major League Baseball (MLB) teams to bring the topic of alcohol and drug use disorders, treatment and recovery to the attention of thousands during baseball games that highlighted National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month (Recovery Month) and included SAMHSA officials and other designated dignitaries such as Lou Johnson, former Los Angeles player and member of the Los Angeles Drug and Alcohol Advisory Committee was featured as the supporter at the Los Angeles Dodgers game on September 10, 2004 and ?Sudden Sam? McDowell, former major league player and native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania presented at the September 21, 2004 Pittsburgh Pirates game. In 2003, former baseball greats in recovery - Darryl Strawberry and Ken Caminiti were involved in Recovery Month MLB events. The first lady of Ohio, Mrs. Hope Taft has attended Recovery Month MLB events in both 2003 and 2004. This already established relationship and the eagerness of MLB to continue this tradition, the Johnson Institute is the organization best equipped to not only continue the tradition, but to expand the involvement of MLB as a host of multiple Recovery Month event hosts and to encourage the involvement of the league, owners, staff, players and their families in sharing their stories of how the disease of alcohol and drug use disorders, treatment and recovery has touched their lives. The Major League Baseball initiative will be an integral part of SAMHSA/CSAT=s 16th annual National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. The effort herein being proposed is for the participation and involvement of the professional baseball community in the recognition of the need to support alcohol and drug addiction treatment and that addiction knows no boundaries in race, gender, culture and social and economic status. Baseball has been coined as America?s National pastime and millions of Americans tune into and attend Major League Baseball (MLB) games. MLB players and coaches become household names and are admired as heroes and leaders by children and adults. They are seen to add value to events, initiatives and activities by civic leaders and the community and therefore are used to encourage participation and involvement due to their draw. THE PROPOSED SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION ACTION IS FOR SUPPLIES OR SERVICES FOR WHICH THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO SOLICIT AND NEGOTIATE WITH ONLY ONE SOURCE UNDER AUTHORITY OF FAR 13.106-1 INTERESTED PERSONS MAY IDENTIFY THEIR INTEREST AND CAPABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE REQUIREMENT OR SUBMIT PROPOSALS WITHIN 7 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.
- Record
- SN00748304-W 20050211/050209211706 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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