SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- QI Program 2011-2016
- Notice Date
- 3/25/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- 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
- AHRQ-11-10008A
- Point of Contact
- RANDY S. ALLISON, Phone: 3014271460
- E-Mail Address
-
randy.allison@ahrq.hhs.gov
(randy.allison@ahrq.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- AHRQ-QI Program 2011-2016 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) intends to issue a solicitation for A Cost-Plus-Award-Fee (CPAF) type contract. The solicitation will be available on or about 7 April 2011. The contract will be for the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI) Program 2011-2016. This opportunity will be available to all firms which have the capability to support the QI Program 2011-2016, for AHRQ. AHRQ will hold a Pre-Proposal Conference time and date to be determined, and addressed in the RFP. AHRQ has developed an array of health care decision making and research tools that can be used by various audiences such as program managers, purchasers, consumers, researchers, government agencies and others. One of these tools, the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), is widely used for national, state-level and hospital-level public reporting and tracking, highlighting potential quality concerns, and identifying areas that need further study and investigation by a number of stakeholders. The AHRQ QIs are a set of approximately 100 quality measures, based on hospital discharge data, organized into four modules-Prevention, Inpatient, Patient Safety, and Pediatrics, each of which measures quality associated with the delivery of care that occurs in an inpatient setting. They are currently being used in hospital level public reporting programs in 25 states and will be included on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website in 2011. They have also been included in the methodology used for U.S. News World Reports ranking of the top 100 hospitals in the U.S. and in the National Healthcare Quality Report, used by numerous hospitals and hospital systems in their quality improvement programs. It is anticipated that, the AHRQ QIs will help facilitate some activities called for under the Affordable Care Act. AHRQ desires to ensure the continuity, timeliness, and accuracy of the core tasks of the AHRQ Quality Indicator program through 2016. AHRQ anticipates awarding a contract to a qualified business/organization to provide ongoing and comprehensive technical support and maintenance to the AHRQ QI program 2011-2016. The potential awardee will support AHRQ in achieving the following objectives: • Maintain and publicly disseminate transparent, timely, accurate, and scientifically robust quality measures and software products; • Increase the usefulness of the AHRQ QIs and associated tools; and • Facilitate the use of AHRQ QIs in quality improvement, public reporting and value-based purchasing initiatives. It is anticipated that there will be an award of one cost reimbursement contract for a base period of one (1) year, with four (4) option years, for a total of five (5) years. RFP will be available electronically on/or about 7 April 2011.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/AHRQ/DCM/AHRQ-11-10008A/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: AHRQ, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States
- Zip Code: 20850
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
- SN02409682-W 20110327/110325234711-fff6326214ec1e50c38564e8cca168a5 (fbodaily.com)
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