MODIFICATION
R -- Public Health Promotion of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Notice Date
- 8/3/2015
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541613
— Marketing Consulting 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
- 84043
- Archive Date
- 8/20/2015
- Point of Contact
- Tayaria L Smith, Phone: 7704882797
- E-Mail Address
-
gqq4@cdc.gov
(gqq4@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought/Requests for Information (RFI) The Centers for Disease Control has developed this Sources Sought advertisement as a means of conducting market research and to request capabilities and briefing statements of interest from contractors to perform services promoting public awareness of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Nature of Performance Work Statement SOW Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Story Sharing Initiative Background Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a complex illness characterized by disabling fatigue and accompanying symptoms of prolonged post-exertional malaise, unrefreshing sleep, impaired concentration and short-term memory, muscle and joint pain, headache, sore throat, and tender lymph nodes. CFS affects more than one million U.S. adults, yet research shows that approximately 80% of persons with CFS have not been diagnosed by a physician. CFS symptoms vary over time; the change could be day to day, week-to-week. Hence, CFS patients often describe their days by good days vs. bad days. People with CFS often can no longer carry out daily activities. On a very good day, they might involve some light housework such as hanging up towels, putting away my shirts and pants, feeding the pets, or cutting up some fruit at the kitchen table. On a typical bad day, they might be limited to activities such as walking out to the kitchen, getting breakfast, reading, and walking back to bed at night, with their family members taking over all the other tasks. Some patients portrays their illness as invisible illness because lack of understanding and support from social and medical communities. Although 60% of the general public reports an awareness of CFS, only 10% had heard of CFS in the past few months, with half hearing about CFS on television and half in consumer magazines. CFS is familiar to the general public, but the personal side of the illness and how it affects families and loved ones has not been made public. So far there has been limited effort in developing audio outreach materials about CFS. StoryCorps has successfully launched the Memory Loss Initiative (MLI) to support and encourage caregivers, families, and people with memory loss or Alzheimer's disease to share their life stories. We propose to model this initiative for CFS and increase awareness and further facilitate the support of CFS patients and their families. Objectives The goal of this work is to increase awareness of CFS through the use of public audio recordings. The specific objectives are to 1) increase awareness of CFS by sharing the patient's perspective, 2) encourage support of CFS patients to improve quality of life and 3) produce audio recordings of CFS patients' stories that can be shared online through the contractor's website or other formats. Scope of Work The contractor shall provide all labor, expertise, equipment, materials, supplies, and perform all services required to carry out the work under this contract. CDC will submit suggested interview topics and questions. In the base year of this contract, the contractor shall produce 4-6 audio interview recordings based on the general interview guide submitted by the CDC. Upon completion of the interview recordings, the contractor shall post the interviewee stories on its website. The contractor will also provide transcripts of the interviews on their website as an alternative option for those with disabilities. For the Option Year period, the contractor shall also produce audio recording of 4-6 interviews. Deliverables: Base Year: Performance Period: 09/21/2015 to 09/20/2016 Deliverable Delivery Date Audio recording and transcripts of 4-6 interviews 120 days after the award date Dissemination through the contractor's website 10-12 months after the award date Option Year 1: Performance Period: 09/21/2016 to 09/20/2017 Deliverable Delivery Date Audio recording and transcripts of 4-6 interviews 120 days after the award date Dissemination through the contractor's website 10-12 months after the award date THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. It is not a Request for Proposal, a Request for Quotation, and invitation for Bids, a Solicitation, or an indication the CDC will contract for the items contained in the RFI. This RFI is part of a Government market research effort to request capabilities and interest and will be treated as information only. In accordance with FAR 15.201€, responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responses to the RFI are strictly voluntary and the government will not pay respondents for information provided in response to this RFI. The RFI/ Sources Sought does not restrict the Government's acquisition approach on a future solicitation. Interested organizations responding to this Sources Sought advertisement are encouraged to structure capability statements in order of the area of consideration noted above. All capability statements sent in response to this notice must be submitted electronically, via e-mail, to Tayaria Smith via e-mail, GQQ4@CDC.GOV, by 8/5/2015.
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