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B -- PERSISTENT EFFECTS OF TREATMENT STUDIES SOL 270-97-7011 DUE 041197 POC Catherine Kellington, Contract Specialist, 301-443-4980, Mary Anne Glitz, Contracting Officer The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) intends to negotiate for the purposes of managing a large-scale national family of studies of CSAT demonstrations and initiatives. The family of studies (Persistent Effects of Treatment Studies, PETS) is designed to evaluate the long term effectiveness (up to 36 months) of substance abuse treatment services provided through a series of CSAT grants and cooperative agreements; and as a vehicle to conduct a number of special studies and policy analyses that address specific drugs of abuse, methods of treatment, populations, or policy issues. PETS is designed to build upon and integrate with a number of previous and on-going evaluations of CSAT projects. The contractor will be responsible for acquiring thorough knowledge of the projects to be studied, developing a final methodology based on existing programs, service delivery units, data bases, patient populations, and evaluation efforts, and assessing treatment participants at defined periods up to 36 months following exit from treatment. The contract will analyze clinical and cost outcomes in the aggregate, and by type of program, type of treatment modality, and by salient patient characteristics. The contractor must submit a variety of progress and analytic reports. Special studies focusing on methamphetamine and cocaine abusers, on therapeutic communities, on CSAT's Addiction Training Centers, on cost issues and development of standard outcome/follow-up study methodology are required. CSAT intends to contract with an organization that can provide the required services and end products through its own resources and through subcontracts with local agencies and with individuals, academic settings, or agencies that offer special expertise in areas such as methods development, tracking and interviewing patients, data collection and analysis, and cost accounting and analysis. CSAT seeks an organization that can demonstrate specific expertise in all required programmatic and methodological areas and the ability to produce high quality analytic products quarterly, annually and on a task schedule over the course of the project period. The offeror must present evidence of experience appropriate to the tasks. The contractor must have successful, strong, and extensive experience in conducting evaluations within the substance abuse treatment field; in conducting both prospective and retrospective follow-up studies, including identifying, locating and interviewing of clients; in the integration of projects with others underway or completed; in managing a complex contract with multiple tasks, many of which will need to occur simultaneously; and other contract management experience and production of interim and final deliverables in a timely manner. CSAT plans a five year award with options for the purpose of developing methodologies and data systems for PETS studies. The estimated date for issuance of this RFP is February 24, 1997 with responses due thirty days later. This solicitation may be obtained in either of two ways; electronically, by downloading a file from the SAMHSA Bulletin Board System (BBS) at 1 (800) 424-2294 (8,N,1) or by mail. Files will not be made available on the BBS until on or after the estimated issuance date. Download instructions are posted on the BBS. Once downloaded, you should determine if you have a continuing interest in the RFP. If so, you must either write the individual identified above that you wish copies of amendments to the RFP (if any) sent to you by mail or check the BBS regularly for amendments which will also be posted there and can be downloaded electronically. You may choose either method for obtaining amendments. Note, however, that if you rely on the BBS for obtaining amendments, at this time we have no way to assure, and will therefore assume no responsibility for assuring, you have downloaded these amendments. Requests for copies of the RFP to be mailed must be made in writing and will be honored if received within twenty calendar days after issuance of the solicitation. Requests received after this period will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis until the supply is exhausted; however, there is no assurance that copies requested after the twentieth day will reach the requestor before the due date for receipt of responses. Requests shall be forwarded to the attention of Catherine Kellington, Contracting Officer, Division of Contracts Management, OPS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockwall II Building, Room 670, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Telephone requests will not be honored. No pickups will be permitted. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which chall be considered by CSAT.***** (0051)

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