Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Contracts Management Branch, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II, 6th Floor, Rockville, Maryland, 20857

R -- TREATMENT IMPROVEMENT PROTOCOLS (TIPS) SOL CSAT-95-0013 POC Contact Point, Al Deal, Contract Specialist, 301/443-8215 Provide effort to assist States in effectively addressing their needs for improvements in substance abuse treatment funded by the Subustance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant and related State resources by (1) developing as part of technical assistance (TA), a process to produce documents and publications written under a consensus process by health and treatment experts, thus (2) facilitating the transfer of knowledge, state-of-the-art protocols and ''best practice' guidelines from the nation's experts to the States and treatment providers. The result of this effort will be to improve State compliance with Federal block grant requirements and to enhance the capability of States to provide quality services through a strengthened systems infrastructure which addresses the linkages among substanc abuse, criminal justice, juvenile justice, and public health. This will also result in improving the States' capabilities to address issues of substance abuse services delivery and financing under State health care reform. Offerors must demonstrate a capability to develop and execute a comprehensive systems planning, implementation and reporting approach based on the State AOD systems technical assistance contract mechanism originated in 1990 by the Office for Treatment Improvement (OTI), now known as the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). It is estimated that 48 months plus an additional ten (10) day option period for contract transition will be required for this project. Estimated issuance date of the solicitation is 03/27/95 and responses are due to be received in the Contracting Office 45 calendar days thereafter. The solicitaiton may be obtained in either of two ways; electronically, by downloading a file from SAMHSA Bulletin Board System (BBS) at 1 800-424-2294, or by mail. To download from the SAMHSA BBS, you should set your communications program at 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and parity at none (8-1-none). SAMHSA's modems will communicate at 1200 to 9600 BPS and can negotiate with higher speed modems. If your modem is slower than 1200 BPS, you will not be able to use this BBS. Our software can use several common transfer protocols. We recommend Zmodem if it is available in your communications program; however, any of those listed on the BBS should prove satisfactory. Large files will be posted as self extracting compressed files to save time during the transfer. Hardware compression features in the modems will be relied upon to provide compression for smaller files. No telephone requests for the solicitation will be honored. Telefax requests for the solicitation will be accepted at (301) 443-6468. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by this office. (0073)

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