SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Templates for Reporting National Quality Forum Indicators of Cancer Care Using the National Cancer Data
- Notice Date
- 8/23/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 813920
— Professional Organizations
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 6120 Executive Blvd. EPS Suite 600, Rockville, MD, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NCI-60158-NV
- Response Due
- 9/6/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/21/2006
- Description
- In accordance with Simplified Acquisition procedures, The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), Applied Research Program (ARP), Outcomes Research Branch (ORB) plans to procure on a sole source basis, for Templates for Reporting National Quality Forum Indicators of Cancer Care Using the National Cancer Data Base, with American College of Surgeons (ACoS), 633 North Saint Clair Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611-3211. The North American Industry Classification System code is 813920 and the business size standard is $6.5M. The National Quality Forum (NQF) develops and implements quality measures for a wide variety of medical conditions and health issues. Under a program sponsored by federal partners including the NCI, CDC, AHRQ and CMS, the NQF is in the process of developing quality of care measures for breast and colorectal cancer. The NQF solicited candidate measures from the oncology community and empanelled technical experts in these fields to evaluate and identify the most useful and practical measures, classifying them as measures suitable for provider-level quality improvement, population-based surveillance of the quality of care, or for provider accountability. These measures were presented to the project?s Steering Committee who recommended further development, testing, and piloting of the measures submitted by the American College of Surgeons. In April 2006, the NCI contracted with the ACoS to further refine and test these measures with registry data available through the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB). The goal of this project is to design and deploy reporting templates using web-based technologies that will provide CoC-Approved cancer programs with transparent, intuitive and easy to navigate reports that provide summary and detailed reports of concordance with the quality of care measures currently under consideration by the NQF. These reports will also allow meaningful comparison across similar units of analysis - other non CoC-Approved cancer programs that share common characteristics such as geographical location, structural resources or services, or even systems affiliation. Transparent reports with comparative elements are necessary to respond to the demands by health care consumers (patients and purchasers) for accountability measures - publicly reportable information that can be used to drive the selection of services and service providers. The American College of Surgeons through their subsidiary the Commission on Cancer (CoC) developed the quality of care measures being used and submitted them to the NQF consensus process. Based on the intellectual property rights agreement with NQF, the American College of Surgeons hold ownership of these measure specifications during the measures testing process. Because the project requires the measures testing work be done on a nationally representative sample of hospital-based cancer programs, the ACoS Commission on Cancer?s National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) is the only known source of cancer registry-based information containing such a sample. To the NCI?s knowledge no other data system exists to collect the ACoS registry-based cancer measures with the same degree of scope (approximately 1,400 CoC-approved cancer programs), comprehensiveness (all the measure data elements are already coded in the system), and quality (these data elements have already been validated in pilot projects sponsored by the College). The National Cancer Data Base is privately co-owned by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society and is unavailable for this work to other public or private organizations. This is not a solicitation for competitive quotations. However, if any interested party believes it can provide the above service, and has the support of the above listed partners, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The statement of capabilities and any other information must be in writing and must contain sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can perform the requirement. An Original and one copy of the capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 1:00 PM EST on September 6, 2006. All questions must be in writing and can be faxed to (301) 402-4513 or sent via electronic mail to Debbie Moore at dm170b@nih.gov. It is the vendor?s responsibility to call 301-402-4509 to verify all questions have been received. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No collect calls will be accepted. In order to receive an award, contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and the Online Representations and Certifications Applications (ORCA). NCI-60158-NV must be referenced on capability statements received in the contracting office.
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