SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Data Integration, Management, Analysis and Visualization - Attachment 1 HHS-CDC-RFI-2015-DCIPHER - Attachment 2 HHS-CDC-RFI-2015-DCIPHER Excel Spreadsheet
- Notice Date
- 9/26/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-CDC-RFI-2015-DCIPHER
- Archive Date
- 11/14/2014
- Point of Contact
- Kim H. Morris, Phone: 770-488-2621, Teri M Routh-Murphy, Phone: 770-488-2713
- E-Mail Address
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ycy1@cdc.gov, tnr3@cdc.gov
(ycy1@cdc.gov, tnr3@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Excel Spreadsheet HHS-CDC-RFI-2015-DCIPHER Instructions 1. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY to identify a single platform that can integrate, analyze, visualize, and report on key surveillance, epidemiologic, laboratory, environmental and other types and sources of data during emergency or routine investigations in an efficient, and timely manner. The information provided in the RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not made a commitment to procure any of the items discussed, and release of this RFI should not be construed as such a commitment or as authorization to incur cost for which reimbursement would be required or sought. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned. The objectives of this RFI are to: 1. Collect information regarding the capabilities of existing data integration, management, analysis and visualization tools and platforms. 2. Evaluate the ability of existing platforms to support the provided functional and non-functional requirements. 3. Optional and at the discretion of the Government: invite vendors to demonstrate the use of their product(s) in-person, onsite at CDC. See attachments 1 and 2 for more specific detailed information. 2. Executive Summary CDC plays a critical role in the detection, response, mitigation, and recovery during public health emergencies and infectious disease outbreak responses. CDC is also the primary federal agency conducting public health surveillance. In this role, the CDC collects, generates, and analyzes a plethora of data in support of disease surveillance and epidemiologic investigation activities, laboratory testing, scenario modeling, intelligence gathering, environmental investigation, and medical countermeasures deployment. CDC is currently able to meet data integration needs to manage public health emergencies. However, CDC faces a number of challenges to meet these needs. Currently CDC programs, during routine and emergency investigations, deal with many process-driven and technical challenges in their capacity to collect, integrate and analyze numerous data types and sources. CDC's Data Collation and Integration for Public Health Event Responses (DCIPHER) project staff seeks information on products that can electronically integrate, manage, analyze, visualize, report on and share key surveillance, epidemiologic, laboratory, environmental and other findings during public health investigations and responses. 3. Agency Overview CDC plays a critical role in the detection, response, and recovery during public health emergencies, infectious disease outbreaks, and public health surveillance. Management of such events and effective allocation of medical countermeasures require situational awareness of disease risk, validated analytics, pathogen characteristics, spread, and impacts to society and critical infrastructure. During large-scale events, CDC is required to make rapid public health decisions based on multiple data sources (e.g., laboratory, epidemiological, environmental sampling, climate, and situational awareness), and needs to rapidly collate, analyze and share these data with internal and external partners. Further, as charged by the CDC Director, there is a broad Surveillance Strategy now in place that aims to improve CDC's overall surveillance capabilities (http://www.cdc.gov/ophss/docs/CDC-Surveillance-Strategy-Final.pdf). The Surveillance Strategy guides efforts to make systems more adaptable and versatile, make data more timely, and population- and geographically-specific, as well as consolidate systems, and reduce the reporting burden and reporting redundancies for CDC partners. The DCIPHER project supports all three goals outlined in the Surveillance Strategy. 4. Background CDC is currently able to meet data integration needs to manage public health emergencies. However, CDC faces a number of challenges to meet these needs, as outlined in Figure 1. These challenges represent examples that some CDC programs face. Laboratory testing for evidence of a pathogen in both clinical specimens and environmental samples may be performed in multiple CDC laboratories involving multiple Centers/Institute/Offices (CIOs) and throughout the Laboratory Response Network (LRN). The results from laboratory testing are contained within and reported through a variety of Information Technology (IT) systems. Epidemiology-related systems, data elements collected, and data collection methods have evolved independently of each other and are often disease-specific. Additionally, these systems have developed with different functionality and some with limited ability to 1) interface with laboratory data from the CIOs and LRN, 2) integrate laboratory, environmental and epidemiological data, and 3) link data with the CDC Emergency Operations Center (EOC) situational awareness program. Existing workflows for epidemiologic, environmental, and laboratory data collation vary amongst CIOs, and can include labor-intensive manual data aggregation and manual quality control reviews. Such processes can contribute to a delayed and potentially error-prone understanding of the scope and severity of a public health emergency and hinder CDC's ability to maximally leverage available data and information for improving outcomes. Example Program-Level Challenges 1. Absence of an established electronic system for data management during an outbreak for many CDC programs 2. Inefficient electronic surveillance systems for data capture, particularly during an outbreak or EOC activation (e.g., poor timeliness, not scalable) 3. IT challenges that prevent automated integration of data from multiple sources (e.g., epidemiologic and laboratory data) 4. Inability to quickly evolve and incorporate new/modified data collection mechanisms 5. Limited or inefficient visualization, data management, and data sharing tools  Example Enterprise-Level Challenges 1. Few of the existing IT systems capture data elements in a manner that is consistent across the different systems and programs, making integration of data difficult 2. Visualization, analysis, and data sharing is handled differently by each system 3. Data transmission methods vary widely across CDC programs (e.g., via fax, email, telephone, file transfer protocols, electronic messaging) 4. Many processes are labor-intensive and depend on manual data aggregation and manual quality control reviews 5. Limited reuse of data collected during outbreak events and limited reuse of analysis and visualization routines among programs and across outbreak investigations CDC needs a single electronic platform that integrates, manages, analyzes, visualizes, reports on and shares key surveillance, epidemiologic, laboratory and environmental findings during public health investigations and responses in an efficient, and timely manner (See Figure 2). The envisioned platform will enable CDC to standardize a core set of data elements across multiple surveillance programs and event responses to capture data in a consistent manner, as well as integrate new data types and unstructured data. It will have an intuitive user interface that will enable infrequent and new users as well as experienced users to successfully operate the system and conduct advanced analytics with limited training. The system will provide CDC's external partners with near real-time access to event data through a secure interface. The platform will be designed and implemented as an enterprise data integration platform for agency-wide use which can extend to the EOC and all major public events responses. Response Format Vendors' responses should consist of two files, a Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat PDF document that addresses all questions in Section 7.1, and a Microsoft Excel workbook that addresses all of the requirements capabilities referred to in Section 6. The Word/PDF document shall not exceed 16 pages double spaced at 12 point font excluding spreadsheet, Times New Roman. Vendors shall read the information requests in each worksheet and enter their response in the Response column. As this is not a request for proposals, supporting cost data is not required nor requested. Any pricing data provided, including estimates, is informational only and must be contained within the allowed 16 pages. All questions related to this RFI should be directed to: Kim Morris Email: ycy1@cdc.gov Phone: 770-488-2621 <img style="overflow: hidden; cursor: hand; height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; right: 0px; position: static !important; float: none; left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; top: 0px; width: 16px; bottom: 0px;" title="Call: 770-488-2621" src="data:image/png;base64,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" alt="" /> Vendors must ensure that the response to this RFI is received via email 11:59 pm on closing date October 30, 2014. Disclaimer This RFI is only a request for information about potential products / services and no contractual obligation on behalf of Agency whatsoever shall arise from the RFI process. This RFI does not commit Agency to pay any cost incurred in the preparation or submission of any response to the RFI. Confidentiality This RFI is both confidential and proprietary to Agency, and Agency reserves the right to recall the RFI in its entirety or in part. Contractors cannot and agree that they will not duplicate, distribute or otherwise disseminate or make available this document or the information contained in it without the express written consent of Ministry/Agency. Vendors shall not include or reference this RFI in any publicity without prior written approval from the client, which, if granted, shall be granted by the individual named above. Vendors must accept all of the foregoing terms and conditions without exception. All responses to the RFI will become the property of Agency and will not be returned.
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- Zip Code: 30341
- Zip Code: 30341
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