SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- 16TH NATIONAL TASC CONFERENCE ON DRUGS AND CRIME
- Notice Date
- 5/14/2009
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- SAM1964
- Archive Date
- 6/13/2009
- Point of Contact
- Chris M. Ganey,, Phone: 301-443-4379
- E-Mail Address
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CHRISTOPHER.GANEY@PSC.HHS.GOV
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), through the Program Support Center, Division of Acquisitions Managements, intends to award a sole source contract using simplified acquisition procedures to the National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities. Background The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has a lengthy history (1990-present) of providing funding for the treatment of individuals in the criminal justice system who have substance use and/or mental health disorders. In the SAMHSA Priorities Matrix which drives the agencies budgeting, planning, and programming, Criminal and Juvenile Justice is listed as one of SAMHSA’s program priority areas. CSAT currently is funding substance use treatment services to offender populations in two primary settings: treatment drug courts and offender reentry into the community. The acronym “TASC” stands for Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities. TASC is a national program model that reduces addiction driven crime by linking local criminal justice systems to community-based treatment programs. The TASC model was initiated in 1969, as one of the federal responses to the rise of drug related crime. National TASC is the national membership organization serving the case-management professionals and it has 200 programs across the country. In the past, TASC has organized twelve successful national conferences. Given the value of the TASC model as an alternative to the incarceration, we believe support of this national meeting furthers SAMHSA’s objectives of the knowledge exchange of screening, assessment, case management, and referral to treatment in order to more effectively treat the substance-using offender. The purpose of this contract is for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT): This Purchase Order request is to support the 16th National TASC Ninth Annual Conference on Drugs and Crime. It is anticipated that four hundred people will attend the conference from the Criminal Justice, Treatment, Social Services, Legislative, academic, and drug research fields. The conference will be a forum for exchange of ideas and a showcase for the state-of-the-art technology and information on offender management, drug treatment programming, drug courts, offender re-entry, research, and information technology. As the theme implies, this year’s conference will focus on the community partnerships that are necessary to ensure the recovery and reentry of prior offenders. The conference will feature tracks on reentry and recovery support, evidence based practices-practical applications for improved results; improving family health through prevention; TASC and problem solving courts and technology, connectivity and community responses. Additional workshops will include family-focused programs, front-end diversion, working with other systems, and working with scarce resources. Through plenary sessions, panel discussions, and training workshops, participants and sponsors will learn about the latest innovations and developments in juvenile/criminal justice/mental health case management. In addition, conference attendees will have the opportunity to attend several pre-conference sessions for federal grantees and other subjects. Specific purposes for the Purchase Order include: Demonstrating SAMHSA’s support for the TASC offender case management model concept through the 16th National TASC Conference on Drugs and Crime. This will be accomplished through the use of the SAMHSA/CSAT logo and credit for sponsorship on all conference materials.  Using this conference as a vehicle for more national recognition of and understanding of SAMHSA’s matrix cross-cutting principles as they relate to the priority area of criminal justice programming. A central focus will be on SAMHSA’s support for new approaches to criminal justice-substance abuse treatment through its new justice portfolio of program initiatives, including re-Entry and restitution programs, family drug courts, offender reentry, and jail diversion of the co-occurring offender population. SAMHSA/CSAT will participate in the planning of the 16th National TASC Conference on Drugs and Crime in Charlotte, North Carolina. The contractor shall plan (with SAMHSA/CSAT involvement) and implement the conference, provide a summary report describing the successes and weaknesses of the conference, and recommend next steps in training the TASC field. The National TASC is uniquely qualified to fulfill the tasks of this purchase order. National TASC is a national membership organization with more than 200 programs nationwide. The 16th National TASC Conference on Drugs and Crime is being held by National TASC for its members and professionals in the field. National TASC is highly skilled in managing these national conferences as it has successfully held twelve previous conferences, including last year’s 15th National Conference on Drugs and Crime in the Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel in Chicago Illinois last September. National TASC is the sole organizer of their 16th National Conference on Drugs and Crime. Since the contract tasks involve more than simple logistical preparation for the conference, but also involves the selection of presenters with expert content knowledge specific to TASC, strength-based case management, screen and assessment of alcohol and drugs for criminally-involved offenders, referral to, and delivery of, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders treatment and the myriad issues related to the continuum of care for offenders reentering the community from prison this task cannot be performed by a normal conference logistics contractor. For this unique operation and other activities described above, National TASC is the proper contractor who can provide the venue and accomplish these activities for CSAT. The proposed simplified acquisition is for services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of Far 6.302. Interested persons may identify their interest by responding to the requirement within 15 days after the date of publication of this notice. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed simplified acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. For further information, please contact Chris Ganey in Rm. 5C-03, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Md. 20857 or on 301-443-4379.
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