SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Health Care Innovations Exchange II
- Notice Date
- 10/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical 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
- HHS-AHRQ-SBSS-11-10002
- Point of Contact
- Erin B. Mills, Phone: 3014271169, Jessica Alderton, Phone: 301 427-1783
- E-Mail Address
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Erin.Mills@ahrq.hhs.gov, jessica.alderton@ahrq.hhs.gov
(Erin.Mills@ahrq.hhs.gov, jessica.alderton@ahrq.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. Background: Health care providers, health plans, quality improvement organizations, and other health care organizations and professionals embarking on quality improvement or disparities reduction activities frequently scan the field and networks for ideas or solutions that have worked elsewhere. Web sites, journal articles and other resources describing quality improvement strategies that work often chronicle them from a single initiative or setting. In addition, these information sources do not scan the full range of clinical to workforce to system design solutions, do not include innovative solutions or if they do lack sufficient information for replication, and do not permit readers to upload their own innovative solutions. Equally important, these information sources do not present solutions that didn't work, omitting an opportunity for those designing solutions to learn from efforts that were not successful. These, and other features, were deemed important and necessary by a panel of innovators and potential users of this Web site when the concept for the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange was first vetted in 2005. For the first contract of the Health Care Innovations Exchange (HCIE), AHRQ envisioned it as a vehicle to promote the widespread diffusion of innovations that would lead to improvements in quality, efficiency and effectiveness and to reductions in disparities thereby contributing to AHRQ's progress in these strategic areas. In addition, the Web site would capture health system or practice innovations that were used (trialed, piloted, or incorporated enterprise-wide) and did not lead to the improvements of interest but may have lead to other positive findings and generated a number of lessons learned. Including this type of innovation would provide educational opportunities not available elsewhere. The research community would find this valuable also. The goal of the HCIE was, and continues, to be a publicly-accessible, national repository of health care service delivery innovations and tools and associated information needed to facilitate strategic decision making and to promote change and further innovation in the health care system for the purpose of improving health care quality and reducing health care disparities for all Americans. With this requirement, the Health Care Innovations Exchange will also become a national repository of policy/public health innovations used to improve quality and reduce disparities. Health Care Innovations Exchange will be the only national resource that will, when possible, draw relationships between policy/public health innovations and service delivery innovations. The HCIE is an Internet-based repository for the collection, classification, distribution of and dialogue around health care service delivery innovations and relation information and tools. The HCIE is a searchable database of innovative strategies and tools used to improve health care quality and reduce health care disparities. Learning and networking opportunities are offered to promote dialogue and exchange of information about innovation, adoption, spread and specific innovations and tools. While there are information technology (IT) components in this project, this is not an IT requirement. The project will be content driven supported by information technology. Purpose and Objectives: • Continue the efficient, systematic collection, and high quality classification and representation of innovations and tools; continue to emphasize innovations targeting public health priority diseases/conditions, priority populations, and efforts to reduce disparities in quality; continue to maintain relationships with other databases (such as AHRQ's National Guideline Clearinghouse and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse) • Expand the database and resource to include policy/public health type innovations aimed at improving health care quality or reducing disparities in care; show parent-child relationships between policy innovations (parent) and clinical processes or community services innovations (child) • Operate and maintain, and develop, test, and deploy a back end and front end and related changes that reflect attention to the systems development life cycle, complies with relevant government IT regulations and requirements (such as privacy and security), and earns value for the government • Establish a project expert panel that will provide feedback and guidance, and to establish an editorial board with capacity to review submissions and write expert commentary critiquing innovation successes and failures, offering insights and addressing the nuances of innovation, implementation, and change • Continually improve the design of the Innovations Exchange incorporating feedback from user testing, expert panel, editorial board and others • Provide appropriate and timely technical assistance to users • Provide dynamic opportunities for learning and networking among the users of the Web site Project Requirements: There are five (5) major tasks associated with this requirement. Note: The list provided below is not exhaustive of all required subtasks. Task 1 Content: Establish and maintain an editorial board; Recruit a group of experts; Modification of current inclusion criteria; Establishment of a system to obtain, publish, update, archive innovations, tools and associated content; and, Establish, implement, and maintain a system to index and abstract innovations and tools and validate that system. Task 2 Enhancements: Propose recommendations for change to the inclusion criteria, copyright form, template of attributes, indexing, search, browse, verification, and publication. Task 3 IT: Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate the Innovations Exchange technical infrastructure and web site. Task 4 Learning and Networking: Propose options for providing learning and networking opportunities among Innovations Exchange users. Task 5 Project Management: Provide for the effective and efficient management of the technical, administration, logistical, and support functions; Assist AHRQ with a customer satisfaction survey; Manuscript development; Use an Earned Value Management System in the management of the requirement; and, Reporting. Capability statements should describe previous successes working with expert panels and editorial board(s) and with managing conflicts of interest. The Project team shall consist of a PMI-certified Project Manger. Other team members should have experiences in health services research; health care policy; clinical service delivery; community and social services relative to health care; health care quality improvement and/or disparities reduction; innovation and change management. Team members should be skilled at qualitative research; content capture, such as but not limited to investigative journalism; indexing and tagging using UMLS and other vocabularies; and systematic editorial processes and controls. In addition, some team members will have experiences in the IT life cycle and will be skilled at government database design/administration, government Web site design/deployment/maintenance, and obtaining system security certification and accreditation with an approval to operate in a short period of time. Anticipated Period of Performance: The anticipated period of performance is July 27, 2011 - July 26, 2012 with four (4), one (1) year option periods from July 27, 2012 - July 26, 2016. Other Important Considerations: This project is subject to earned value management reporting. Capability Statement/Information Sought: Interested qualified small business organizations should submit a tailored capability statement for this requirement, not to exceed 15 single-sided pages (including all attachments, resumes, charts, etc.), presented in single-space and using a 12-point font size minimum, that clearly details the ability to perform the aspects of the notice described above. Statements should include information regarding respondents': (a) staff expertise, including their availability, experience, and formal and other training; (b) current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work; (c) prior completed projects of similar nature; (d) corporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information. Statements should also include an indication of current certified small business status; this indication should be clearly marked on the first page of your capability statement, as well as the eligible small business concern's name, point of contact, address and DUNS number. Information Submission Instructions: All capability statements sent in response to this SMALL BUSINESS SOURCES SOUGHT notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Erin Mills, Contract Specialist, at: erin.mills@ahrq.hhs.gov in Microsoft Word (MS) or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) by Monday, November 1, 2010 12:00 PM EST. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. ANY RESPONSES RECEIVED AFTER THAT DATE AND TIME WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
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