SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Consultant
- Notice Date
- 9/22/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center/Office of Purchasing & Contracts, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 106, MSC 5480, Bethesda, MD, 20892-5480
- ZIP Code
- 20892-5480
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-AM70147-1
- Response Due
- 9/28/2005
- Archive Date
- 10/13/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Performance Period: May 2006 ? September 2006 The National Institutes of Health Department of Clinical Bioethics has a requirement for a Contractor to procure services to prepare a manuscript providing a a theoretical justification for public participation in priority setting for health. The supplies and services herein are being procured un accordance with the simplified acquisition procedures authorized by FAR Part 13. NO PHONE CALLS WILL BE TAKEN REGARDING THIS SOLICITATION. PLEASE SUBMIT PROPOSALS TO AMCGEE@CC.NIH.GOV BY COB 5 PM EST. ON 9/28/05. Background: Maintaining the health of a population requires a myriad of expensive interventions. Along with medical care, a number of socio-economic factors contribute toward health. Given their complexity and cost, expenditures for health must necessarily be prioritized. Public involvement in health policy has encountered a number of obstacles. When feeling well, most individuals find that the issues lack salience, so decisions tend to be influenced heavily by health care workers. Patients may be frustrated by the complexity of information and rely on physicians and insurers to decide for them, trusting the services they need will be provided to them in the event of illness. At the community or organizational level, the lack of consumer understanding and involvement in policy making has been identified as a serious impediment to a market-based health care system with a solid moral foundation. Over the last 8 years the Section on Ethics and Health Policy of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the NIH has engaged in a project to design, and use decision tools that involve members of the public in resource allocation decisions for health care and other interventions aimed at ameliorating health. While this effort has involved the accomplishment of many technical tasks such as game design, software development, and data collection and analysis, we have focused insufficient attention on a theoretical justification for the idea that the ascertainment of the public?s perspective should lead to public participation in policy setting. Scope of Work:The contractor will be required to review the relevant literature, develop an outline for a manuscript, write and submit the manuscript for publication. Contract Tasks to Be Performed:The Contractor, working closely with the project officer, will do the following work for the project:Review literature,Prepare a manuscript outline,Write a manuscript,Submit for publication and revise as necessary. Program Management and Control Requirements:Contractor will confer on a weekly or biweekly basis with the investigator to review the purpose of the study and plan the manuscript and to review the progress of the project. Reporting Requirements and Deliverables: Progress Reports ? The Contractor will submit to the Project Officer a progress report every month. The progress report will include: a description of the work to date, problems encountered, suggested resolution, hours of labor and other costs expended, and a comparison of planned project schedule to actual project schedule. Deliverables Annotated bibliography Submission Date May 2006 Manuscript outline Submission Date June 2006 Draft of manuscript Submission Date August 2006 Finished and submitted manuscript Submission Date September 2006
- Place of Performance
- Address: 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD
- Zip Code: 20892
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN00901351-W 20050924/050922211757 (fbodaily.com)
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