SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Business Case Calculator for Road Safety Strategies
- Notice Date
- 7/16/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting 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
- 2013-62006
- Archive Date
- 8/1/2013
- Point of Contact
- Diane J Meeder, Phone: (412)386-4412
- E-Mail Address
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DMeeder@cdc.gov
(DMeeder@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE A DELIVERY ORDER. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), intends to negotiate and issue a purchase order to EHS Consult LLC, 12017 Stearns St, Overland Park, KS 66213. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), has a requirement for "Business Case Calculator for Road Safety Strategies," that is supported by a Sole Source Justification and Approval. ---DRAFT SOW--- Background and Need: In a volatile economy, firms are constantly facing increased global competition, rapidly changing technology, and decreased access to scarce resources. Under these conditions, occupational safety and health (OSH) efforts to insure a safe and healthful work environment must compete with other organizational needs. Without compelling information about the value of OSH efforts to the organization, management may view these programs and activities as a lower priority than projects that have established a clearer connection to their bottom line. By establishing the business case for intervention, safety officers and other business officials can advance a decision criterion that addresses common business concerns, is couched in common language, and employs familiar metrics. The challenge for occupational safety and health professionals is to describe the value of OSH efforts in terms that are understood and accepted within the business community-specifically those who are charged with resource allocation decisions. Although well educated in the science of injury and illness prevention, occupational safety and health professionals are rarely educated in economics, finance, or business management. The proposed BCC will provide safety and health professionals with the ability to demonstrate the business value of preventative interventions that improve the safety and health of workers, without the need for additional formal training. The financial and non-financial metrics calculated in this proposed tool are those routinely used in decision making for organizational resource allocation. Moreover, the formulas to produce these financial and non-financial metrics will be embedded in the BCC and activated with a keystroke by the user. The BCC will also improve the scientific knowledge and technical capability of safety practitioners by providing an innovative mechanism to assess risk, both in health and business terms, and integrating safety and health initiatives into mainstream business practices. Project Objectives: The overall objective of this project is to create a computer application that will calculate the business case and thereby increase occupational safety and health. Common business case methods employ financial measures of the impact of changes in a process. The proposed BCC will expand the methods to include a comprehensive risk-based analysis, with measures that include financial and non-financial terms. Financial metrics include commonly accepted measures such as net present value, internal rate of return, payback period, and a simple return on investment. Non-financial metrics include the impact of safety and health interventions on business objectives, and play an important part in the public discussion of business and corporate functions. Scope of Work: The contractor will collaborate with NIOSH to develop a BCC that employs both well-tested and state-of-the-art methods to select the best investment, among competing solutions, in road safety interventions and controls. The BCC will function such that the individual interventions can be selected by the end user, so there are numerous elements that can be individualized to meet the specific circumstances and requirements of the user. End users will be able to generate a number of elements-in the categories of risk, financial and non-financial metrics-that are needed to perform good decision-making. The BCC will be grounded in the American Industrial Hygiene Association's (AIHA) Value Strategy, which has been tested and adopted by well over 30 companies, as well as being the subject of AIHA academy professional development courses over the past six years. Using the Value Strategy as the process, a business case tool was developed to assist in the calculation of the financial and non-financial metrics required to develop effective business cases for adoption and implementation of Prevention through Design (PtD) solutions. The proposed BCC will refine this PtD tool to provide a focus on road safety. Special attention will be paid to identify benefits specific to a road safety intervention, including the impacts to workers health and safety, impacts to the occupational health and safety risk management program, and impacts to the business, such as productivity, through put, and speed to market. Additional attention will be paid to capture environmental changes associated with road safety interventions, such as reduced fuel consumption and the benefits associated with the use of "green vehicles." Costs of road safety interventions will capture all costs of the solution, including additional equipment, training, maintenance, utilities, and human resources to implement and maintain the intervention. Step 1. Gap Analysis. With the assistance of NETS, individual meetings via Adobe Connects with safety and health professionals who manage road safety programs and have expressed an interest in this project will be scheduled to discuss the development of the BCC. They will be provided a copy of the AIHA Value Strategy and the PtD Business Case Calculator which provides the characteristic factors in these approaches, such as the tools, data collection instruments and processes required for each step. Based on their expert opinion, participants will be requested to identify factors, such as specific operational features and program elements that are necessary to achieve the optimal BCC for use in road safety. The final stage is to determine what gaps exist in the list of factors that can be incorporated into the BCC. Step 2. Design. The PtD Business Case Calculator will serve as the base for developing the BCC which will incorporate all gaps identified in Step 1. An Excel mock-up of the BCC will be created based on input from the participants. Step 3. Stakeholder Validation. This step will provide those participants in Step 1 with the Excel mock-up of the BCC for review. Participants will be asked via teleconference to determine if all gaps identified earlier have been incorporated. Participants will also be asked to add any additional features or elements that were not identified during the initial gaps analysis. Step 4. Alpha Testing. Any additional changes identified in Step 3 will be made to the Excel mock-up. Alpha testing of the Excel mock-up will be conducted using students enrolled in the Safety Program in the School of Environmental, Physical and Applied Sciences at the University of Central Missouri. At the time of testing, students will be selected by Dr. Popov from the best qualified students enrolled in SAFE 4035, Safety Program Management or ICAP 4115, Safety and Health Management. The testing will focus on functionality, ease of operation, comprehension as to ambiguity, and usability. All issues will be recorded, evaluated for immediate revision to the BCC mock-up or for consideration as substantial modifications in future revisions, and those changes identified as immediate will be made. Step 5. Application Program. A Dot net application program will be written based on the final version of the BCC Excel mock-up. Step 6. Beta Testing. With the assistance of the project partner, NETS, nine companies will be selected to Field Beta Test the BCC. In-depth interviews will be conducted to determine the measures of successful BCC, both in terms of business content and programming effectiveness. The BCC must produce meaningful and actionable results as seen by the stakeholders to be deployable. Step 7. Final Implementation and Deployment. The finalized release version of the software will be published on the NIOSH website. As this property is within the public domain, there will no charge to the user, and availability for download will be publicized as indicated in the section below. The NIOSH website will be modified to provide encouragement for the use of the BCC, instructions and terms of use, case examples acquired during the Beta Testing, and testimony from stakeholders about the importance of using the BCC. This project is supported by a justification for GSA Limited Source Justification to Eastern Research Group, Inc under authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1). Responsible sources that believe they possess the expertise and capabilities identified above are hereby afforded the opportunity to submit to the Contracting Officer within 15 days from the posting date of this notice, their written capabilities statement and pricing information in the format they choose, not to exceed 10 pages. Please forward product and pricing information, referencing the announcement number, to Diane Meeder, Contracting Officer, CDC, Procurement and Grants, OAS, Branch-IV, PO Box 18070, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236-0070; email Dmeeder@cdc.gov. All vendors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov, prior to an award of a federal contract. 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 13.106-1(b)(1) a purchase order and/or negotiations will be conducted with EHS Consult LLC, 12017 Stearns St, Overland Park, KS 66213 as the only source.
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