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R -- PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR DHHS PROGRAMS. POC Contact Point, Cheryl L. Howe, (202)690-5552 The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking small business sources to provide assistance with the development of performance measures for HHS programs. In order to perform, a firm must possess knowledge of the highly specialized field of performance measurement techniques, data sources, data collection, data validity and testing, data base and records analysis, with respect to DHHS programs, and demonstrate the firm possesses the specialized staff required to perform those tasks. The firm must demonstrate the following: 1) Understanding of how to design and carry out short-term projects to assist government agencies in the development of public policy; 2) Understanding of evaluation and performance measurement, including the problems of developing measures for health and human service programs, data sources for measuring performance goals and indicators, and issues and methodologies related to verifying and testing the validity of indicators and data for measuring performance as well as the clarity and precision of their writing; knowledge of Government Performance and Results Act, performance partnerships and outcome based measurement; 3) Successful corporate experience in developing evaluations and performance measures for programs; 4) Quality and completeness of the plan for managing and staffing the delivery orders, including proposed time availability of key personnel, commitment to quality control and specific corporate experience in managing and staffing studies of this kind; and 5) Demonstrate competence through training and experience in evaluation and performance measurement and relevant management and leadership expertise of the proposed Project Director and Delivery Order leaders. Interested concerns must provide a detailed capability statement not later than 15 calendar days after publication of this notice. The contracting officer shall use the information received to make a decision whether or not to issue any resulting solicitation as a set-aside for small businesses or as an unrestricted solicitation. No solicitation document is available and requests for a possible future solicitation will not be processed. All information shall be submitted to the contact point and address given above. See Note 25 for further instructions on submissions. (0123)

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