SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- State and Community Perinatal Depression and Intimate Partner Violence Project
- Notice Date
- 3/30/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Procurement Management, 5600 Fisher Ln., Room 13A-19, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 09-N240-6256
- Point of Contact
- Joseph Kozar,, Phone: 301-443-3098, Francis R Murphy,, Phone: (301) 443-5165
- E-Mail Address
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jkozar@hrsa.gov, fmurphy@hrsa.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE to determine the availability and capability of small businesses (including certified 8(a), Small Disadvantaged, and HUBZone firms; veteran and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and women-owned small businesses) firms under NAICS Code 541990 “All Other Professional, Scientific and Technical Services,” to contract for services to create a new, cost-effective, sustainable activity between HRSA/MCHB programs and leading State, local entities and professional healthcare provider organizations to improve screening and intervention rates of both perinatal depression and intimate partner violence. Evidence indicates two public health co-factors, prenatal and postpartum depression (PPD) and intimate partner violence (IPV), pose significant morbidity and mortality risks to the nation’s estimated six million pregnancies that occur each year. Moreover, in spite of the well-documented health risks to mothers and children exposed to PPD and IPV, and MCHB’s efforts to increase screening and intervention rates (SI-rates) by providing grantees with either PPD or IPV technical assistance, combined PPD/IPV SI rates by MCHB-funded providers are unacceptably low. Information is needed on how State and local perinatal women’s health and pediatric health professionals and health care providers are currently screening for both PPD and IPV, as well as how women are being referred for intervention services and what services and resources are available to them. In addition, resource materials are needed that provide practical steps to addressing the gaps and barriers that exist for health care providers and perinatal women’s health and pediatric health providers when screening and referring women. This activity joins PPD and IPV experts, health professional organizations, HRSA’s MCHB grantees (Healthy Start, State Title V Maternal and Child Health [MCH] Directors), other State and local public/private stakeholders and consumer advocates to define, develop, implement and assess the effectiveness and ability to generalize select IPV and PPD SI and prevention strategies to target areas. Professional organizations include the: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP); Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF); National Healthy Start (HS) Association; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses; American Academy of Pediatrics; American Dental Association; Emergency Nurses Association; Association of Family Physicians; and, National Mental Health Association. This activity builds upon recent CDC-supported work completed by AMCHP and FVPF. Under the proposed contract, the contractor will engage HRSA’s MCHB grantees, other stakeholders and consumer advocates in and be responsible for: (1)development of new resources to guide State/local public/private entities that address the co-factors of PPD and IPV for perinatal women and their children; (2)tapping the unique insights of a diverse group of perinatal women’s and pediatric health care providers (i.e. Dentists, OB-GYN, Primary Care, Family Planning, Emergency Department and Pediatrics), MCH and HS Directors to collaboratively address IPV/PPD SI-rates; (3)engaging the larger HRSA grantee community via webcasts at key points in the resource development phases; (4)working intensively with six to eight States and their Healthy Start communities to pilot new resource materials and strategies respective to their barriers and gaps in eliminating PPD/IPV-associated poor maternal and child health clinical outcomes; and, (5)supporting replication of these strategies in other State/local areas through the webcasts and by disseminating the newly developed resources for effectively and concurrently addressing PPD and IPV at the State and community-based levels. Contractor will be required to produce the following deliverables: 1.Three to five new resources to guide State/local public/private entities that address the co-factors of PPD and IPV in perinatal women and their children. These resource must be produced in hard copy, 508-compliant web version, and compact disc formats; 2.Six to eight interactive, facilitated webinars and two to three on-sight meetings in the Washington, DC area with MCH and HS Directors and other stakeholders and advocates to gather relevant insights and information during the resource development phase; 3.Technical assistance to six to eight States and their HS communities to pilot new resource materials; 4.Development and implementation of a dissemination and replication plan for the new resource materials that includes two webcasts; 5.Hold yearly update meetings with the HRSA project officer and other HRSA staff; 6.Quarterly progress reports containing information on services provided under the contract. Qualified contractors must satisfy the following minimum requirements. Provide a detailed description of your company’s experience and demonstrated abilities to deliver each and every one (address each one separately) of the following requirements: 1.Demonstrated experience in initiating, supervising, designing, producing, implementing, disseminating, assessing, and revising women’s and children’s risk-reduction resource materials and technical assistance for State and local women’s and children’s healthcare providers; 2.Evidence of active collaborations with State Title V MCH Directors, national Healthy Start programs, AMCHP, FVPF and other State and local public/private stakeholders and consumer advocate entities; 3.Experience in the field of public health maternal and child healthcare delivery, and perinatal depression and intimate partner violence screening, intervention, and training programs; 4.Demonstrated awareness of cultural diversity and health disparities with respect to perinatal depression, intimate partner violence, and maternal and child health outcomes; and, 5.Demonstrated experience with supervising, designing, producing, facilitating and implementing webinars involving public/private providers and administrators from diverse public health settings and professional backgrounds. Interested entities should submit their capabilities statements demonstrating the capability of performing this work. Documentation may include Government and commercial contract, references (names, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses) and any other information serving to document the organization’s capability to perform this work. Your response to this Sources Sought must be received in this office by April 13, 2009 by delivery, surface mail or fax ONLY at the following address: HHS/HRSA/DPM, attn: Joseph Kozar, 5600 Fisher Lane, Room 13A-19, Rockville, MD 20857;telephone (301) 443.3098; Fax (301) 443.5462. This Sources Sought/RFI is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. This is not a solicitation announcement for proposals and no contract will be awarded from this announcement. No Reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement and any follow up information requests. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation.
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