SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Promoting the Spread and Scale of Value-Improving Health Care Practices - PDF of Presolicitation Notice
- Notice Date
- 9/8/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, 12501 Ardennes Avenue, Suite 400, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- AHR183604
- Archive Date
- 9/27/2016
- Point of Contact
- Khristine Agnello, Phone: 3014433924
- E-Mail Address
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khristine.agnello@psc.hhs.gov
(khristine.agnello@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PDF of presolicitation notice. Pursuant to the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), the Contracting Officer may solicit from one source if the Contracting Officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source is reasonably available. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Program Support Center (PSC), Acquisition Management Services (AMS), on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), intends to sole source to: Project Hope-The People-To-People Health Foundation, Inc. 255 Carter Hall Ln Millwood, VA, 22646-0255 In accordance with FAR 5.207(c), AHRQ's requirement is described as follows: (1) National Stock Number (NSN): N/A (2) Specification: The purpose of this project is to perform a combination of activities designed to promote the goal of improving health care value through the spread and scale of transformative practices, including the publication of a theme issue in Health Affairs on Promoting the Spread and Scale of Value-Improving Health Care Practices. (3) Manufacturer: N/A (4) Size, dimensions, or other form, fit or functional description: N/A (5) Predominant material of manufacture: N/A (6) Quantity, including any options for additional quantities: N/A (7) Unit of issue: N/A (8) Destination information: AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850 (9) Delivery schedule: See attached PDF for delivery table. (10) Duration of the contract period: September 2016 - September 2018 (11) Sustainable acquisition requirements: N/A (12) For a proposed contract action in an amount estimated to be greater than $25,000 but not greater than the simplified acquisition threshold: N/A (13) For Architect-Engineer projects and other projects for which the product or service codes are insufficient: N/A (14) (i) If the solicitation will include the FAR clause at 52.225-3, Buy American -Free Trade Agreements-Israeli Trade Act, or an equivalent agency clause: N/A (ii) If the solicitation will include the FAR clause at 52.225-5, Trade Agreements, or an equivalent agency clause: N/A (iii) If the solicitation will include the FAR clause at 52.225-11, Buy American--Construction Materials under Trade Agreements, 52.225-23, Required Use of American Iron, Steel, and Manufactured Goods--Buy American Statute--Construction Materials under Trade Agreements, or an equivalent agency clause: N/A (15) Sole Source Justification: As the nation's leading peer-reviewed health policy journal, Health Affairs can bring unique capabilities to promote the goal of improving health care value. Health Affairs is uniquely positioned to affect the innovation cycle of health care practices, making care better and reducing costs. Health Affairs has comprehensive expertise in setting the stage for innovation, refining innovation, spreading innovation, and recalibrating the approach. Health Affairs is adept at creating hospitable environments that set the stage to allow change to occur in health care. Through peer-reviewed research, Health Affairs publish and publicize shortcomings in the existing health care system, thereby demonstrating the need for change. Health Affairs also highlights emerging practices, providing leaders with recognition for their efforts. In addition, Health Affairs also facilitates information flow among policy makers, practitioners, and thought leaders that enables the emergence of creative solutions to problems. Health Affairs has experience in refining innovation that helps early adoptions of change to overcome hurdles to success. Health Affairs increases the odds that early adopters will succeed by improving information flow among innovators and sharing early results. Health Affairs also provides professional rewards to risk takers by promoting their work. Health Affairs is uniquely positioned to spread innovation. With readership drawn almost equally from the health care sector, the policy community, and academia, Health Affairs dramatically accelerates the flow of information that forms the basis for spread. Health Affairs is constantly cultivating this broad audience, along with a major investment in relationships with media outlets that extend our reach, means that findings and information published in the journal rapidly extend out to precisely the community that is the target for delivery system and policy innovation. Their peer review process and thorough editing of academic pieces to make them accessible to a policy audience ensure a high degree of credibility and extensive reach. Health Affairs has unique experience in the types of research methods needed to recalibrate the approach to an intervention, which is especially important when practice and policy innovators are trying an approach for the first time. Experiments and quasi-experimental approaches to analysis form the evidence base for recalibration, and these types of analysis populate the pages of Health Affairs. Health Affairs publishes analyses of the effects of change, including whether an innovation increases or decreases health disparities. Meanwhile, policy makers seek to refine laws and regulations to reflect what has been learned from early experience. The policy community turns to Health Affairs to host the conversations necessary to refine innovations so they have maximum positive effect and can be sustained. Health Affairs produces a suite of products beyond the journal, each of which plays a central role in promoting health, health policy, and health systems improvement. This includes the Health Affairs Journal, the Health Affairs Blog, Health Affairs events, and other product lines. Each product in the Health Affairs suite has a unique role in promoting health system improvement. Together, these products can serve as a critical component of the overall strategy for promoting value. Responses: This is not a solicitation for competitive proposal. No solicitation document is available. All responsible sources that have determined that they can provide the same services may submit information and a capabilities statement that speaks to the services AHRQ is seeking in this proposed acquisition. The email subject line must reference AHR183604. All responses are due by September 12, 2016, 12:00 PM Eastern Time and can be sent to Khristine Agnello at Khristine.Agnello@psc.hhs.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract base upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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