SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Logistics and coordinated technical curriculum for local, multi-stakeholder quality collaboratives
- Notice Date
- 12/22/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD, 20850, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-07-10022
- Response Due
- 1/8/2007
- Archive Date
- 1/23/2007
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (the Agency) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is planning on the award of a contract on a sole-source basis to the Center for Health Improvement (CHI) as part of a technical assistance effort for local, multi-stakeholder quality collaboratives, a subset of which are being cosponsored by and coordinated with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The overarching goal of the collaboratives is to enhance care by improving the quality of healthcare services and reducing healthcare costs. The goal of this award is to develop a technical curriculum and implementation component to provide the collaborative sites with evidence, methods and tailored tools to facilitate achievement of the overarching collaborative goal. The timeline is tight as the sites have been selected and are awaiting technical assistance; the aim is to have the contractor work with the collaboratives to prioritize technical assistance needs in February 2007. The curriculum will be 100% driven by needs of the collaborative leadership. CHI has unique qualifications for this task. Foremost CHI provides technical assistance to RWJF Aligning Forces collaborative grantees, and the Agency expects to coordinate and build upon these CHI efforts. With CHI as the technical assistance vendor for both the RWJF and the Agency, resulting cosponsored curriculum and implementation components will be seamless to the sites (vs appear as dueling sets of parallel activities, each with duplicative planning structures to support the activities). Other unique qualifications include CHIs expertise, experience and capacity to: 1) provide logistics support in convening workshop and IT support for electronic dissemination venues; 2) begin curriculum development and implementation with little start up time; 3) design technical assistance for local quality improvement collaboratives, including break-through collaboratives; 4) develop and implement curriculum on range of subtopics under rubric of data aggregation and publicly reporting, to include evidence-based efficiency, quality and patient safety measures; 5) develop and implement curriculum on range of subtopics under rubric of consumer incentives, consumer engagement and provider financial incentives for quality and efficiency; 6) quickly identify and tap existing network of key operational leadership of local collaboratives; and 7) quickly identify and tap existing network of key national technical experts in requisite subject areas. The objectives of the contract are to: A. With little lead time, develop and implement technical curriculum on data aggregation and publicly reporting the data. B. With little lead time, develop and implement technical curriculum on consumer engagement and provider financial incentives. C. Provide logistics for range of dissemination strategies, which may include webinars, audio conferences, in-person workshops and/or site-specific TA sessions as needed. For this requirement, sources must possess qualifications and demonstrate experience (with specific examples of past performance) in each the following technical areas: 1) logistics support in convening workshop and IT support for electronic dissemination venues; 2) curriculum development and implementation tailored specifically for local, multi-stakeholder quality collaboratives; 3) evidence-based data aggregation and public reporting; 4) evidence-based consumer incentives, consumer engagement and provider financial incentives for quality and efficiency; 5) familiarity with existing network of key operational leadership of quality collaboratives; and 6) familiarity with existing network of key national technical experts in requisite subject areas. Sources also must demonstrate (with example) track record in effectively coordinating similar activities supported by more than one funder in seamless manner. Interested organizations capable of performing the above requisite qualifications and expertise should submit a statement of capabilities with documentation supporting their ability to meet the Governments requirements as described above no later than 12:00 noon on January 8, 2007. No solicitation document is available. Capability statements must be submitted electronically to Jessica Alderton at Jessica.Alderton@ahrq.hhs.gov. Capability statements received after 12:00 noon on January 8, 2007 will not be reviewed. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
- Record
- SN01201812-W 20061224/061222220240 (fbodaily.com)
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