SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Questionnare Design Research Laboratory and Inter-Agency Mission Support - Solicitation
- Notice Date
- 6/18/2010
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- 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 (Hyattsville), 3311 Toledo Road, Room 5303, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20782-2003
- ZIP Code
- 20782-2003
- Solicitation Number
- 2010-N-33479-1
- Point of Contact
- Desiree C. Harris, Phone: 3014584629
- E-Mail Address
-
huq9@cdc.gov
(huq9@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Questionnare Design Research Laboratory and INter-Agency Mission Support The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) located in Hyattsville, Maryland have a requirement for services to provide a comprehensive service to architect, manage, develop, operate, train, support, and assist systems and methods designed to support the CDC/NCHS/ORM/QDRL and the Inter- Agency Steering Committee in performing their evolving missions though training, development, operation, support and services of systems and methods, providing domain augmentation services in the area of pre-fielded survey questions analysis and analytical reporting resulting in improvement of the overall process, methods, systems and resulting findings related to survey question analysis. To perform this function, various methods are used to evaluate questions including: cognitive interviewing, focus group, and usability testing. Respondents are recruited to participate in 1 hour or 1 ½ hour interview/focus groups and are given remuneration. Interviews and focus groups are audio or video recorded. On-line and internal applications are used to conduct evaluations. They include: Q-Video, Q-Notes, Q-Notes Plus and Q-Bank. Q-Video is a digitized video/audio application that captures stores, and indexes the video and audio of a cognitive interview at the questionnaire level in a digitized database for the purpose of searching individual questions and conducting analysis. All Q-Video tasks are done manually. Q-Notes is a software program that supports the structured collection and analysis of cognitive interview data. Hence, it serves as an audit trail tracing each finding to the original source. Q-Notes Plus in an extension of Q-Notes, where the actual interview is embedded with the application so that the findings can truly be traced to the original source. Q-Bank (a product of an interagency collaboration and hosed by NCHS), is a database consisting of evaluated questions from federal surveys and links each question to the scientific report that evaluated the survey question. Questions are searchable by survey title, question topic (e.g income, demographic, chronic health conditions), information type (e.g. objective characteristics, behavioral reports, and attitudes), and response category (e.g. yes /no open-ended, quantity), response error (e.g. problems with terms, recall problems). In addition, users can search for keywords within individual questions. Q-Bank is intended to help users of survey data interpret the survey questions on which the data are based and understand the potential errors that might be associated with these questions. A steering committee of representatives from various agencies directs the future and development of the database. This solicitation will result in the award of a single performance based, firm fixed price contract. The applicable NACIS is 541990 All Professional, Scientific and Technical Services with size standards in millions of dollars of $7.0. The period of performance of this contract shall not exceed 60 months, (5 years total). Estimated start date: August 1, 2010 and estimated completion date: July 31, 2015. The anticipated award date is August 1, 2010. This requirement is a 100% set-aside for small business concerns, including HUBzone, 8(a), Service-Disable Veteran-owned, Veteran-Owned, and small disadvantaged businesses. Inquiries regarding this solicitation must be submitted in writing and emailed to the contracting officer; Desiree Harris and emailed to huq9@cdc.gov. Inquires should be received at the contracting Office no later than 2 weeks prior to proposal due date, and must be submitted in writing and email. Responses by Facsimile (FAX) will not be accepted. No telephone calls will be accepted. In order to be eligible to receive an award resulting from this solicitation, offerors must be registered with the Central Contractors Registration (www.ccr.gov) prior to award date. If not registered or active by that date, the offeror's proposal will be considered non-responsive. NO EXCEPTIONS. To register, you may call 1-888-227-2423 or apply via the Internet at http://www/ccr/gov. Contractors must also complete the Representations and Certifications in the ORCA database at http://www.bpn.gov/orca. No paper copies of the solicitation will be issued. It is incumbent upon the interested parties to review the aforementioned site regularly for any updates/amendments to any and all documents.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782-2003, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20782, United States
- Zip Code: 20782
- Zip Code: 20782
- Record
- SN02181724-W 20100620/100618234454-8f8a5deafd471f92eb81a273d70422f1 (fbodaily.com)
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