SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Assessing the Evidence Base for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria
- Notice Date
- 7/23/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- 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, Maryland, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-2009-10001
- Point of Contact
- Linda Simpson, Phone: 301-427-1705
- E-Mail Address
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linda.simpson@ahrq.hhs.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Contracts Management, is soliciting proposals on a full and open competition basis to assist AHRQ in developing criteria for assessing the evidence base for the context-sensitive effectiveness and safety of patient safety practices. For the purpose of this requirement, Patient Safety Practices (PSPs) are defined as interventions, strategies, or approaches intended to prevent or mitigate unintended consequences of the delivery of health care and to improve the safety of health care for patients. PSPs may include clinical interventions; systems, organizational and behavioral interventions; and various combinations of these. The effectiveness of PSPs may be affected by the nature, number, and sequencing of components; where they are implemented; with whom, for what purposes; as well as by features of the external environment as noted above. For purposes of developing criteria for evidence review, it is important to note that the labels given to these PSPs often do not convey the full range of the PSP intervention or construct. Tasks include: 1. Form an interdisciplinary panel of experts in patient safety practice, frontline healthcare delivery, clinical and health services research, behavioral and social sciences, research and evaluation design and methodology, systems engineering, management science, and other disciplines as necessary. 2. Identify a diverse and representative set of PSPs to be used as initial subjects for helping to iteratively develop criteria for rigorous and systematic assessment of the context-sensitive effectiveness and safety of PSPs. 3. Identify research and evaluation models, methods, and designs that could be used to rigorously evaluate the PSPs identified as part of item 2 above. 4. Develop a set of criteria, including criteria for strength of evidence, to be used for assessing future studies and reports. 5. Identify specific needs for further development of theories, constructs, and research/evaluation designs and methods to further strengthen evaluations of PSPs and criteria for systematic review. 6. Provide a final summary report of the methods employed to develop the criteria, and recommendations for next steps. The successful qualified offeror must optimize their creativity and flexibility to achieve optimum results. Offerors must possess substantial experience with patient safety and health quality improvement concepts and practices. The offeror must be experienced with assessing study quality and standardizing criteria for evidence reviews and syntheses. Minimum qualifications include: • A minimum of 5 years’ experience assessing evidence in health care delivery research. • Staff experienced in assessing the roles of clinical factors, contextual factors and implementation processes in patient safety improvement implementation research and evaluation. • Project leadership with an advanced degree such as a Ph.D. in social sciences and knowledge of the health care delivery system and patient safety issues, or MD with experience in organizational, engineering, management science or similar fields and knowledge of the health care delivery system and patient safety issues. • Ability to attract a trans-disciplinary and diverse set of technical experts and maintain their involvement in the development of criteria for systematic evidence reviews in patient safety. • Ability to translate complex research and evaluation concepts into language accessible to potential implementers of patient safety improvement practices. • Corporate experience must include a minimum of 10 relevant projects over the past 10 years. Note: Offeror does not have to have prior experience working for AHRQ; rather, an offeror must show a significant presence working in the health care industry specifically dealing with patient safety implementation research/evaluation. For information purposes the following is provided: the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541611 ($5 Million) and the period of performance will be one (1) year from date of award. 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 August 14, 2008 with proposals due October 13, 2008.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States
- Zip Code: 20850
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
- SN01621270-W 20080725/080723223534-bd2e77ab257a6b0b883865c69ed783bb (fbodaily.com)
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