SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Health Behavior in School-Age Children
- Notice Date
- 11/1/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Contracts Management Branch 6100 Executive Blvd., Suite 7A07, MSC7510, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7510, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NICHD-PRB-SS-2007-08
- Response Due
- 11/16/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/12/2006
- Description
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is interested in identifying Small Business organizations with requisite qualifications to assist with the conduct of two large scale nationally-representative school-based surveys on adolescent health behavior. The Prevention Research Branch (PRB), an intramural research group of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), conducts research on child and adolescent health behavior. One of the PRB areas of emphasis is assessment of the prevalence and determinants of health behavior among adolescents. Toward this end, the PRB plans to conduct two surveys beginning in the 2009-2010 school year: a cross-sectional national probability survey of U.S. 6th-10th graders that is also consistent with the requirements of the international Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey; and a 4-year longitudinal survey of independent national probability samples of U.S. 11-year-old and 15-year-old students. The HBSC survey is conducted among national or regional samples of students at ages 11, 13, and 15 in about 40 countries. The cross-sectional international HBSC survey requires at least 1536 youth in each age group and a total of 5000 students. The goal of the cross-sectional HBSC survey is to obtain data about adolescent health behavior and to make this information available so as to enable the improvement of health services and programs for youth. The goals of the cross-sectional U.S. survey are to provide health behavior information about adolescents nationally (U.S.-specific protocol) and to enable international comparisons by incorporating the mandatory HBSC protocol. The U.S. longitudinal survey requires a probability sample that will permit estimates of population percentages with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level for each age. The goals of the U.S. longitudinal survey include: to identify the trajectory of adolescent health behaviors from pre-adolescence through the post high school year; to examine the predictors of the onset of key adolescent risk behaviors during this period; to identify family, school, and social/environmental factors that promote or sustain positive health behaviors; and to identify transition points in health risk behaviors and changes in family, school, and social/environmental precursors to these transitions. Surveys consistent with the cross-sectional HBSC were conducted in the U.S. in 1997-1998, 2001-2002, and 2005-2006. In international comparisons, previous HBSC surveys showed that U.S. 15-year-old youth are less likely to smoke than students in most other countries surveyed, even though 13-year-old US students experiment with tobacco in comparable proportions to youth in other countries. U.S. youth are more likely to be overweight than students in the other HBSC countries. U.S. eating habits were also shown to be less healthy with a comparatively high proportion of youth consuming high fat foods and soft drinks with sugar. Analyses of the U.S. national data set have addressed bullying, unintentional injury, behaviors related to obesity, and utilization of health care. The 2009-2010 U.S. surveys will address health-related factors according to rigorous protocols to be developed by the HBSC by June of 2009, and should also include additional factors and dimensions that are relevant to the U.S. experience. To be deemed capable, a small business must demonstrate their ability to: 1) develop a school-based, national probability sampling plan that would provide a nationally-representative sample, including appropriate over-sampling of racial minority students; 2) employ contacts at state and local departments of education and school districts to gain access to schools for surveys; 3) identify and recruit in a period of 4 months two national samples of middle and high schools, one involving > 15000 students and > 400 schools (representing a national probability sample from which the total of 5000 11.5, 13.5, and 15.5 year-old students for the HBSC sub-sample will be drawn) with an 80% rate of participation, and a second national sample of > 6000 11- and 15-year-old students meeting the same criteria as the cross-sectional sample; 4) identify, establish, and maintain a national network of data collectors; 5) recruit, train, and manage data collectors working in locations dispersed across the country; 6) conduct a national school-based survey involving >15000 students and >400 schools; 7) conduct a 4-year longitudinal assessment of >6000 11- and 15-year-old students that may include both in-school and at-home assessments; 7) employ SUDAN or similar statistical programs for basic management of weighted cross-sectional samples; 8) manage large data sets with students nested within schools; 9) prepare data summaries and preliminary analyses; and 10) prepare public use data sets. AT THIS TIME THE NICHD IS ONLY REQUESTING CAPABILITY STATEMENTS FROM SMALL BUSINESSES. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541710. Therefore, the small business size standard for this announcement is 500 employees or less. See http://www.sba.gov/size/ for information on what is a small business and part 121.106 of the SBA's Small Business Size Regulations on how the SBA calculates the number of employees. Small Businesses that meet the applicable size standard and believe that they have the capabilities described above are encouraged to submit a written Capability Statement to attention of Elizabeth Osinski at the address provided by 3:00 PM Local Time on Thursday, November 16, 2006. Overnight deliveries should be mailed to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Contracts Management Branch, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510, Bethesda, Maryland 20852. See Numbered Note 25. No collect calls or facsimiles will be accepted. The Capability Statement should be limited to no more than 15 pages and it should address each of the competencies stated above. If responses indicate a reasonable expectation of obtaining competitive offers from two or more responsible and capable small business concerns the anticipated subsequent Request for Proposals will be set-aside for small businesses only.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Unknown
- Zip Code: 20892
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20892
- Record
- SN01174183-W 20061103/061101220214 (fbodaily.com)
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