SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Multinational Time Use Survey MET Score Linkage Pilot Project
- Notice Date
- 8/8/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bldg 1050, Frederick, Maryland, 21702, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21702
- Solicitation Number
- N02PC42631-57
- Archive Date
- 9/6/2014
- Point of Contact
- Reyes Rodriguez, Phone: 240-276-5442, Terry L. Galloway, Phone: 240-276-5384
- E-Mail Address
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reyes.rodriguez@nih.gov, gallowaytl@mail.nih.gov
(reyes.rodriguez@nih.gov, gallowaytl@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Division of Cancer Control Population Science (DCCPS), plans to procure on a sole source basis services to determine the feasibility of assigning measures of energy expenditure to the harmonized time use survey activity variables from the Multinational Time Use Survey (MTUS) from University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom OX1 2JD. This acquisition will be processed in accordance with simplified acquisition procedures as stated in FAR Part 13.106-1(b)(1). The North American Industry Classification System code is 541990 and the business size standard is $14.0 Million. Only one award will be made as a result of this solicitation. This will be awarded as a firm fixed price type contract. The period of performance is twelve (12) months from date of award. It has been determined there are no opportunities to acquire green products or services for this procurement. NCI/DCCPS/Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch (RFMMB) would like to determine the feasibility of assigning measures of energy expenditure to the harmonized time use survey activity variables from the Multinational Time Use Survey (MTUS). Energy expenditure will be assigned as Metabolic Equivalent of Task (MET) scores. The MET score is the ratio of metabolic rate during a given task to a reference metabolic rate (3.5 ml 02-kg-1). MET scores range from ~1 for sedentary activities such as sleep or television viewing to 20+ for fast running or other highly vigorous activities. This work will be carried out with data for three countries (US, UK, Finland). This work is necessary to address in detail one key challenge of assigning MET scores to the MTUS activity codes. The activity codes include multiple activities, some of which have different levels of energy expenditure. In order to assign a valid level of energy expenditure to each activity, the project will match MET scores to underlying activities from the original country specific time use survey activities and then take a weighted average of these MET scores based on country specific estimates of time spent in different component activities. Descriptive analysis of the resulting data as well as comparison with studies of activity levels in specific domains will be used to evaluate the face and convergent validity of the data. Furthermore, comparison with the estimated levels of energy expenditure for population sub groups with those generated by the ATUS-MET score linkage which includes more activity codes will provide insight into the validity of the proposed estimation procedure The contractor shall perform the following tasks: Task 1 - Data gathering of underlying activities: The contractor shall prepare three data files containing the underlying activities and their associated frequencies in adults (aged 18+) from each of three countries (US, UK, Finland) in the 69 harmonized activity classes of the MTUS. The estimated frequencies of the specific activities in each of the 69 harmonized time use activity categories shall be generated with appropriate survey weighting and generally accepted statistical methods. Task 2 - Met score assignment: The Contractor shall assign MET scores to the underlying activities obtained from each of the three Time Use Surveys. These MET scores shall be obtained from the existing compendium of Adult Physical activities (https://sites.google.com/site/compendiumofphysicalactivities/) and choices shall be informed by the procedures developed by C. Tudor-Locke and colleagues (J Phys Act Health 2009 6:347-352: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/atus-met/jpah_2007_tudor-locke_atus-met.pdf). The COR shall review the assigned scores and discuss any discrepancies noted. The Contractor shall participate in monthly conference calls with the COR to review progress and address concerns or questions. Task 3 - Synthesis and Analysis: The resulting MET Scores and country specific frequencies of component activities for the 69 harmonized time use categories shall be used to calculate Average MET scores by country for each of the MTUS Activity codes. The averages shall be weighted by the underlying frequency of the component activities. Then, these Activity Averages shall be used to calculate Daily MET Scores for survey respondents. In this case, the averages shall be calculated using weights associated with the time use survey sampling design from the appropriate country. These results shall be tabulated by sex, age and country and compared with results from related studies of energy expenditure estimated form time use data including, but not limited to Tudor-Locke et al.. (J Phys Act Health 2009 6:347-352) and Ng and Popkin (Obes Rev. 2012 Aug;13(8):659-80). Task 4 - Dissemination: The Contractor shall make these results publicly available on the Web along with a report describing in detail the methods used to develop the MET score values. The report shall give sufficient detail so the procedure could be replicated. The Multinational Time Use Survey (MTUS), is a unique global resource that began in the mid-1970's and that currently includes 60 + data sets from 25 countries from the 1960's to the 2010's. Oxford University has already obtained the data files needed to perform this task as part of the process used to generate the harmonized time use data. There is no other vendor known that poses a vastly data set as the MTUS data from University of Oxford. This notice is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party, especially small business believes it can meet the above requirement, it may submit a proposal or quote for the Government to consider. The response and any other information furnished must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can perform the requirement. Responses must be received in the contracting office by 4 PM EST, on August 22, 2014. All responses and questions must be in writing and faxed 240-276-5399 or emailed to Reyes Rodriguez, Contracting Specialist via electronic mail at reyes.rodriguez@nih.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No collect calls will be accepted. In order to receive an award, contractors must be registered and have valid certification in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and the Online Representations and Certifications Applications (ORCA) through sam.gov. Reference: N02PC42631-57 on all correspondence.
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