SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Adding Clinical Data to Statewide Administrative Data: Pilot Projects
- Notice Date
- 5/25/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- 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
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-07-10042
- Point of Contact
- Gayle McClelland, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-427-1573, Fax 301-427-1740
- E-Mail Address
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gayle.mcclelland@ahrq.hhs.gov
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is soliciting proposals is for a project that is part of AHRQ?s new Joining Forces initiative which aims to capitalize on the joint power of administrative data and health IT to support quality improvement, health care transparency and research. Through two complementary contract solicitations issued simultaneously, AHRQ will support projects to add more detailed clinical data to statewide administrative databases. These projects build on recent work sponsored by AHRQ that assessed the incremental value of adding particular clinical data elements. In the first project an in-depth pilot will be conducted in one or more states to add or link hospital clinical information to administrative (discharge abstract or claims) data. In the second project, a limited number of smaller planning awards will be provided to statewide data organizations that are not yet ready to engage in a pilot but that seek to enhance their administrative datasets with more clinical data. This solicitation is for the first type of project? to provide support to pilot efforts to enhance statewide all-payer hospital administrative data by adding more clinical information. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code that best describes the requirement is 541611. The small business size standard is $6.5 million (provided for information only, as this procurement is advertised on a limited competition among qualified offerors basis). These two types of projects (pilot projects and planning projects) will focus on expanding the data capacities of statewide data organizations participating in HCUP and is therefore open to any HCUP Partner that meets the qualifications stated herein. To be eligible the HCUP partner must meet or exceed the following criteria: The organization must provide statewide inpatient data to AHRQ, and in many cases provide ambulatory surgery and emergency department data as well. If any HCUP partners that individually are unable to meet this requirement are encouraged to partner with subcontractors, as appropriate, to accomplish their proposed project. These data are used to build a family of HCUP databases for national, state, regional and local analyses. Improving the clinical robustness of HCUP Partner data will enable the statewide data organizations to produce more accurate and expanded quality assessments of hospitals in their state. It will also improve the HCUP databases to which these Partners contribute, thus enhancing the accuracy and comprehensiveness of quality assessment at the state and national levels (e.g. as reported in the National Healthcare Quality Report). Enhanced clinical data in HCUP databases will also support more robust analyses that provide the evidence base for quality improvement efforts. AHRQ may award more than one contract from this solicitation. If multiple awards are made, each Contractor will work independently on their projects. Each awardee will also participate in peer-to-peer learning forums with other pilot project and planning project contractors to exchange knowledge and lessons learned. Under separate AHRQ sponsorship, the HCUP contractor and its subcontractors with expertise in administrative data, health IT, and data exchange, will serve a convening and technical assistance role for the peer-to-peer learning process. The HCUP contractor will also synthesize findings from the final reports of all pilot project and planning project contractors to create a report that AHRQ will disseminate to other statewide data organizations on the lessons learned from these projects. In addition to the solicitation being available on this site, it will be available for downloading from the internet on AHRQ?s site at http://ahrq.gov . Once in AHRQ?s homepage go to ?Funding Opportunities?, then to ?Contracts?, and then to ?Request for Proposal (RFP)?. It is the offerors responsibility to monitor this site for release of the solicitation, download their own copy of the solicitation, and to monitor this site for any subsequent amendments. It is estimated that the solicitation will be issued on/about June 1, 2007 with proposals due July 2, 2007. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (25-MAY-2007). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 27-SEP-2007, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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