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R -- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE NATIONAL ORGAN PROCUREMENT AND TRANSPLANTATION NETWORK SOL HRSA 240-BHRD-4(6) DUE 052096 POC Contact Point, Lorah Tidwell, (301)443-2732, Contracting Officer, Steven L. Zangwill, (301)443-2750 The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is soliciting proposals from qualified organizations having the capability to operate and maintain the National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in accordance with the provisions of Section 372 (b)(1)(A) of the Public Health Service Act, which requires that an offeror be a private nonprofit entity with expertise in organ transplantation. The purpose of this procurement is to maintain and operate the national OPTN in order to coordinate and improve the efffectiveness of the nation's organ procurement, distribution and transplantation systems by increasing the availability of, and access to, donor organs for patients with end-stage organ failure. Through committees and the Board of Directors, the OPTN establishes and maintains policies and procedures for the allocation of donor organs equitably among transplant patients. Key tasks to be performed include: 1) establish and maintain a Board of Directors meeting statutory and contractual requirements; 2) establish and operate a national computer list of individuals waiting for renal and extrarenal transplants (currently 44,000); 3) establish policies for organ allocation; 4) audit tansplant centers in instances where the Federal Government assets there is reason to believe a transplant center is not in compliance with OPTN policies in a manner that jeopardizes the health of waiting list or transplanted patients; 5) establish and maintain permanent standing committees, including a committee or national council of representatives of top performing donor hospitals; 6) maintain a system to research the impact of utilizing expanded/older donor on recipient survival rates; 7) initiate and expand professional and public educational activities to increase the awareness of organ donation and transplantation; 8) develop and implement a plan for standardizing the organ-specific medical criteria required for acruing waiting time on the national waiting list; 9) provide the release of data to OPTN members, the Federal Government, and non-governmental entities. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by this agency. Solicitation HRSA 240-BHRD-4(6) will be released on or about March 11, 1996. Offerors will have sixty (60) days from release of the Request For Proposal (RFP) to submit their proposals. All requests for this solicitation must be in writing citing RFP HRSA 240-BHRD-4(6) or telefaxed to (301)443-6038 attention Lorah Tidwell. Telephonic requests will not be honored. (0052)

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