SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Technical Assistance Center for Mental Health Promotion and the Prevention of Youth Violence
- Notice Date
- 2/22/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Choke Cherry, 1 Choke Cherry Road Room 7-1051, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 280-05-0096
- Response Due
- 3/9/2005
- Description
- This is not a solicitation announcement. This is a sources sought synopsis only. The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified sources and their size classifications (Large Business, HUBZone 8(a), 8(a), HUBZone, and Small Disadvantage Business) relative to the NAICS Codes. Project Title: Technical Assistance Center for Mental Health Promotion and the Prevention of Youth Violence Project Description: The goal of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a technical assistance center that will support three federally funded initiatives: Safe Schools/Healthy Students (a collaborative partnership with the Departments of Education and Justice), Youth Violence Prevention, and TCE: Prevention and Early Intervention. Each requires collaborative partnerships across service organizations and the application of evidence-based prevention, early intervention, and treatment services. The focus of this procurement will be to: 1. Provide multifaceted technical assistance across a wide variety of topics, including concepts and policies related to school safety, school and community-based prevention and treatment, early childhood development, system change, leadership development, community coalition building, sustainability, program evaluation, mental health services delivery and transformation, evidence-based clinical interventions, evidence-based prevention, juvenile justice, law enforcement, family involvement, school-community-family partnerships, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders/prevention, and youth leadership; 2. Provide centralized administration, management, and coordination of TA services for all grantees; 3. Provide localized technical assistance in a variety of formats and media, including targeted needs assessment and focused TA services addressing the particular needs of an individual grantee, small groups of similar grantees, national and regional workshops and trainings on identified topics, site visits, web-based learning, phone and email consultation, development of a process to involve relevant content experts, peer-to-peer mentoring and technical assistance, cross-site technical assistance, and development of resource materials and guides; 4. Establish a process for identifying best practices and resource development and sharing these across all grantee sites; and, 5. Provide technical assistance that demonstrates competency with respect to all types of diversity, including racial, ethnic, cultural, social, gender, disability, linguistic, sexual orientation, and age. Your responses to the questions provided below will assist the Government in selecting the appropriate acquisition method. Page limit: Maximum 11 pages (font size 10 or larger). In addition, a copy of the company capability statement will be accepted. Responses are due two weeks from the issue date of this announcement. The anticipated period of performance is 5 years, 12 months per contract period. After review of the responses received a solicitation may be published in the Federal Business Opportunities around April 15, 2005. Response to this notice shall include company name, address, point of contact, size of business pursuant to North American Industrial Classification Code (NAICS) and must respond to the following questions: 1. Is your business a small business under the NAICS code? 2. Does your firm qualify as a small disadvantaged business? 3. If disadvantaged, specify if your firm is certified under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act? 4. Are you considered a certified HUBZone firm? 5. Are you considered woman-owned or operated business? 6. Are you a certified Service-Disabled Veteran Owned or Veteran Owned? 7. Is your business a large business? 8. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide technical assistance on an ongoing basis to diverse groups of grantee sites funded by multiple Federal initiatives. 9. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to establish a web-site that supports the delivery of technical assistance on topics relevant to youth violence prevention and healthy youth development, including but not limited to evidence-based programs, coalition building, program evaluation, and sustainability. 10. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide web-based training courses across a diverse group of grantees on relevant and needed technical assistance content areas. 11. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance across a diverse group of grantees on topics that include concepts and policies related to school safety; school and community-based prevention and treatment; early childhood development; system change; leadership development; community coalition building; sustainability; program evaluation, mental health services delivery and transformation; evidence-based clinical interventions; evidence-based prevention; juvenile justice; law enforcement; family involvement; school-community-family partnerships; substance abuse and co-occurring disorders/prevention; and youth leadership. 12. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capability to assess grantee needs and develop technical assistance tools to best address those needs. 13. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide consultation to grantee sites and their partners on system change, organizational development, leadership development, resource management, and infrastructure development? 14. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide technical assistance focused on building collaborative relationships among all of the following: early childhood, primary and secondary educational systems, families, juvenile justice, law enforcement, mental health and substance abuse service delivery organizations. 15. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide technical assistance in a variety of formats and media including site visits, web-based learning, telephone and teleconferences, email, cross-site and regional workshops, and national conferences. 16. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide technical assistance on program evaluation, including assistance on evaluation design, methods of data analysis, and data interpretation. 17. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to develop summative evaluation reports that integrate different outcomes across multiple sites and across different and distinct grant programs. This should include reviewing evaluation reports from local evaluations, developing a summative report structure, writing, publication and dissemination. 18. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to work with racial, ethnic, cultural, social, gender, disability, linguistic, sexual orientation, and age diversity when collaborating with schools, families, and communities for all phases of project implementation, service provision, and evaluation. 19. Do you have an existing database of evidence-based resources for school violence prevention and the early prevention and intervention of mental health disorders? Provide detail on the content of this database. 20. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide technical assistance to educational systems, schools, families, and communities on implementing, monitoring fidelity, evaluating, and sustaining evidence-based programs. 21. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to develop and maintain information management systems and communication systems to link technical assistance providers, grantees, communities, and government project officers. 22. Describe your proven capability and current in-house capacity to provide communications and social marketing training to grantees on topics including, but not limited to, website development, brochure development, spokesperson training, marketing strategy development, development of promotional materials, and use of technology.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Rockville, Maryland or location to be determined
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN00755821-W 20050224/050222211655 (fbodaily.com)
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