SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Using Best Practices to DIsseminate Occupational Health Information to Hard to Reach Workers
- Notice Date
- 4/22/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Acquisition and Assistance Field Branch (Pittsburgh), Post Office Box 18070, Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15236-0070
- ZIP Code
- 15236-0070
- Solicitation Number
- 254-2010-34335
- Archive Date
- 5/22/2010
- Point of Contact
- Diane J Meeder, Phone: (412)386-4412
- E-Mail Address
-
DMeeder@cdc.gov
(DMeeder@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies (DSHEFS) has a requirement to implement outreach and dissemination of public health practice activities to provide improved occupational safety and health information to priority underserved worker populations. These activities will advance NIOSH's work towards achieving several of the NORA sector goals. It will also improve NIOSH's ability to develop outreach and dissemination materials and best practices for reaching priority populations such as young workers, lower wage workers and non English speaking workers. The services in this contract are follow up activities that build on specific recently completed or ongoing projects. Successful completion requires previous knowledge of ongoing projects and relations with the project partners. Previous research conducted jointly by LOHP and NIOSH as well as by LHOP under contract with the California State Worker's Compensation program, the California State Occupational Health Branch, the San Francisco Public Health Department, the Center for Construction Research and Education (CPWR), the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, the Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters is scientifically linked to the current work. Specific project tasks are associated with the following activities: 1) Protecting long term care and outpatient clinic staff against aerosolized transmissible diseases in California through better respiratory fit testing training, 2) Preventing young worker injuries by outreach to adolescent and school- based community health clinics in California, 3) Improving safety and health for Latino forestry service workers in Northern California and Oregon through a promotora program, 4) Formative research in the development of a fall prevention campaign for Latino workers, 5) Promoting school employee Injury & Illness Prevention Programs through the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation School Action for Safety and Health (SASH), 6) Partnering with food service inspectors to promote restaurant worker protection in collaboration with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, 7) Dissemination of a Home Care Workers Safety Handbook in Alameda County, California developed in collaboration with the labor union and county home care agency. This project is supported by justification for other than full and open competition to LOHP, UC Berkeley under authority of 41 U.S.C.253(c)(1). Responsible sources that believe they possess the expertise and capabilities identified above are hereby afforded the opportunity to submit to the Contracting Officer by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 15 days from the posting date of this notice, their written capabilities statement and/or pricing information in the format they choose, not to exceed five (5) pages. Please forward product and pricing information to Diane Meeder, Contract Specialist, CDC, Procurement and Grants Branch-V, PO Box 18070, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236-0070; email Dmeeder@cdc.gov. All vendors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) prior to an award of a federal contract. The website is: www.ccr.gov. This is not a Request for Proposals; however, the Government will review any/all product, capabilities, and pricing information submitted and determine if other qualified sources do exist that could provide this requirement. Information received in response will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. If no affirmative responses are received within 15 days, in accordance with FAR 6.302-1, negotiations will be conducted with the Labor Occupational Health Program (LHOP), University of California, Berkeley, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720-5120 as the only source.
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