SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- JIGSWAW: Algorithm for Cancer Burden Measures Using Claims Data
- Notice Date
- 7/19/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 1E128, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- N02RC62629-24
- Archive Date
- 8/18/2016
- Point of Contact
- Kimesha Leake, Phone: 2402765669, Jolomi Omatete, Phone: 2402766561
- E-Mail Address
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kimesha.leake@nih.gov, jolomi.omatete@nih.gov
(kimesha.leake@nih.gov, jolomi.omatete@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Contracting Office Address Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 1E226, Bethesda, MD 20892, UNITED STATES Description The National Cancer Institute (NCI), Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), Surveillance Informatics Branch (SIB) plans to procure on a sole source support services to support the development of algorithms and codes to be posted on the SEER-Medicare website and stored in Jigsaw from Outcomes Insight, 2801 Townsgate Road, suite 330, Westlake Village, CA 91361, US. This acquisition will be processed in accordance with simplified acquisition procedures as stated in FAR Part 13.106-1(b)(1) and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6. The North American Industry Classification System code is 511210 and the business size standard is $38.5 million. Only one award will be made as a result of this solicitation. This will be awarded as a firm fixed price type contract with two option periods. It has been determined there are no opportunities to acquire green products or services for this procurement. One of the missions of the Surveillance Informatics Branch within the Surveillance Research Program is to support innovative methods and approaches for analyzing, interpreting, and reporting cancer burden measures. The SEER data is extensively used to monitor national trends in cancer incidence, prevalence and survival in the US. Registry data linked to Medicare claims (SEER-Medicare) provide an opportunity to extend these types of reports to other types of measures such as treatment utilization, prevalence of comorbidities prior to diagnosis and other longitudinal information such as second line therapy. Importantly NCI is receiving real time claims from oncology practices to enhance and supplement SEER data with detailed treatment information for the Georgia cancer registry. This process is being extended to five other registries. The availability of claims data provides an opportunity to expand on the types of cancer burden measures included in standardized reports. The Jigsaw software has been designed to automate the extensive data organization and cleaning process required to create analyzable data sets from electronic health data such as claims data. Jigsaw is actually a study builder. It can be used to select a cohort of individuals for a study from a complex set of health claims. The software also has the potential to create baseline exposure and outcome variables. Jigsaw generates variable labels, a data dictionary, a cohort file (one record per person) and events file (multiple records per person which is the best way to store data for longitudinal analyses). The key to this functionality is the Jigsaw Algorithm Repository, which stores the algorithms required for manipulating the data and creating analysis data sets. This is accomplished by using ConceptQL, an open-source, domain-specific language for storing algorithms to find clinical events in electronic health data. By storing algorithms in a flexible, reusable way, they can be combined to produce many different types of studies. This is critical to producing reproducible studies, as well as updating studies when new data is available. Outcomes Insight has previously performed the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process of the SEER data into a common data model and to be incorporated together with the Medicare claims in the Jigsaw Study Builder. They have unique expertise, knowledge and experience in Jigsaw as well as codes and algorithms using claims data. As the SEER-Medicare data has already been transformed and prepared to be analyzed using the Jigsaw Study Builder, any efforts to identify a different tool would pose delays in the project and potentially risking the outcome of this project. Outcomes Insight, Inc. is the only vendor known that can meet the Government needs for this project. This notice is not a request for competitive quotation. However, if any interested party, especially small businesses, believes it can meet the above requirement, it may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. The statement of capabilities 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 4:00 PM EST, on August 3, 2016. All responses and questions must be in writing and faxed 240-276-5401 or emailed to Kimesha Leake, Contract Specialist OR via electronic mail at kimesha.leake@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 System for Award Management (SAM) through sam.gov. Reference: N02RC62629-24 on all correspondence.
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