SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- MODELS OF CARE FOR CO-OCCURRING MENTAL AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS
- Notice Date
- 8/12/2005
- 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-05M000190
- Response Due
- 8/27/2005
- Archive Date
- 9/11/2005
- Description
- The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, (DHHS), through the Program Support Center, intends to negotiate a sole-source award with Rand Corporation , Santa Monica, CA. Purpose: SAMHSA/CSAT has a unique opportunity to participate in a public/private collaboration to conduct a systematic evaluation of a major new grant initiative, yielding results of value to the agency, to states, and to providers of service to persons with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders. Despite the high degree of prevalence, costs, and national priority of co-occurring mental and addictive disorders, improving service delivery for individuals with co-occurring disorders (COD) has been hampered by the lack of definitions and approaches common to both the mental health and substance abuse communities. The National Dialogue on Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders, developed and endorsed by the collaboration of NASADAD and NASMHPD in 1998, has been promoted as a conceptual model to demonstrate how Mental Health (MH) and Substance Abuse (SA) Disorders relate to each other (co-occur), and how MH and SA treatment systems interact in serving persons with co-occurring disorders. The National Dialogue proposed a ?quadrant model,? a matrix composed of combinations of Low and High severities of Mental Health and Substance Abuse problem severities The proposed Contractor is the RAND Corporation, a non-profit, non-partisan ?think tank,? dedicated to the improvement of policy and decision-making through research and analysis. RAND Health is a division of RAND that focuses on empirical research related to health policy. To the proposed project, the RAND Health research team will bring unequalled subject matter expertise on care for co-occurring disorders. RAND is uniquely qualified to assist SAMHSA in the improvement of services for persons with co-occurring disorders. Through the Building Bridges Initiative (supported by the Robert Wood Johnson and MacArthur Foundations), RAND Health is engaged in an on-going effort to identify and promote innovations in services for the target population. In this work RAND examined how changes at the system and policy level affect the provision of evidence-based care and the challenges to achieving better outcomes. RAND also identified differences in the available clinical evidence, program models and policy/financing approaches among the four quadrants, providing a framework for the proposed work. RAND has worked with SAMHSA from the inception of the Co-occurring State Infrastructure Grant (COSIG) program and is currently completing a multisite study of the implementation lessons from the original cohort of COSIG grantees. In combination, the SAMHSA demonstration and a RAND evaluation will ultimately contribute to the wider application of innovations in the treatment of persons with co-occurring disorders in public substance abuse systems across the country. Further, through a collaboration between SAMHSA and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, RAND is working with COSIG states to develop performance indicators for serving persons with co-occurring disorders. 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
- SN00869193-W 20050814/050812211922 (fbodaily.com)
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