SOURCES SOUGHT
Q--Q -- Telephonic Smoking Cessation Program
- Notice Date
- 1/29/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Contracting Officer, (04A-H), 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206
- ZIP Code
- 15206
- Solicitation Number
- 244-07-01776
- Response Due
- 2/8/2007
- Archive Date
- 3/10/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Free & Clear, Inc., 5826 Oregon Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20015 for a telephonic smoking cessation program to decrease the rate of smoking in veterans served by VAPHS. VAPHS serves approximately 55,000 veterans, and many veterans who use the system are unable to attend face-to-face smoking counseling because of travel distance or time constraints and therefore require an intense intervention delivered via telephone counseling. Although it is known that only a minority of smokers quit tobacco permanently after attempting to quit, VAPHS seeks a vendor who can provide strong evidence of high one-year quite rates from a smoking cessation intervention so as to maximize the value of the contract. Specific requirements of the contractor are as follows: 1. Ability to provide intense smoking cessation counseling via the telephone to a large population of smokers. 2. Ability to initiate the program throughout the healthcare system within 2 months of award of the contract. 3. Capable of assessing degree of nicotine dependence and making recommendation about pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. 4. Extensive experience in smoking cessation telephonic interventions that would indicate a high chance of success with patients, many of whom who have smoked for many years 5. Evidence of prior success showing smoking cessation one year quit rates that exceed 20%. Evidence of this success should include counting all smokers who enter counseling in the denominator and those who report being totally tobacco free 1 year later as the numerator (also known as intent to treat). Evidence of success should be available in scientific publications based on randomized controlled trials by authors who conducted investigations with the vendor, such that there is high confidence that the rate of tobacco cessation claimed is accurate and conclusions about the success of the program is valid. 6. Ability and track record of ability to work with a large complex geographically disperse organization 7. Counselors who have competency in providing counseling to economically disadvantaged populations and to a population with high prevalence of racial minorities. 8. A well developed approach and evidence of success in recruiting smokers to make a quit attempt with the assistance of telephonic counseling 9. Willingness to document smoking counseling in the VA electronic medical record system. 10. Ability to track quit rates on an ongoing basis and provide frequent data to the VAPHS regarding the number of enrolled patients and employees, and quit rates during the program, at the end of counseling, and after 1 year. Significant interactive discussion" between the vendors counslors and veterans are required. If your firm has the capabilities to meet all of the above requirements and would like to be considered, please submit supporting information to Cassandra.Craven@med.va.gov or to Cassandra Craven(04A-H), VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, 7180 Highland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, NLT February 8, 2007, C.O.B. Technical questions can be directed to Dr. Joseph Conigliaro at (412) 688-6477 or Joseph.Conigliaro@med.va.gov.
- Place of Performance
- Address: VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
- Zip Code: 15206
- Country: United States
- Zip Code: 15206
- Record
- SN01221158-W 20070131/070129220353 (fbodaily.com)
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