Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Contracts and Procurement, NAD-30, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20590

B -- HEALTH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WITH PROBLEM OLDER DRIVERS. SOL DTNH22-96-R-05142 DUE 061196 POC Earnestine Mitchell, Contract Specialist, (202) 366-9565 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) intends to have a contractor to: 1) Identify various types of health care providers who come into contact with older drivers who are experiencing functional ''limitations'' association with aging that are affecting their ability to drive, 2) Locate health care providers that would most likely work cooperatively with the functionally limited drivers and hold discussions with the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) and allied health professionals, 3) Determine how these health care providers could become more involved in advising their patients to curtail their driving or report those patients to the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV), 4) identify what information or materials are needed by those health care providers in order to deal effectively with the driving decisions and the capabilities of their functionally limited patients and 5) Develop draft samples of those materials for field testing. It is anticipated that a Cost Reimbursement type contract will be awarded for eighteen (l8) months. The solicitation will be mailed to those organizations responding by letter or FAX (202) 366-9555 to this announcement. The anticipated issue date of the solicitation is April 30, l996.(0101)

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