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Q -- TUSKEGEE STUDY PARTICIPANT HEALTH BENEFITS PROGRAM SOL 98B022(N) DUE 102797 POC Vicki Vandermier, Contract Specialist, (404) 842-6779 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contemplates awarding a Sole Source contract to the State of Alabama to provide a comprehensive 24 hours a day health benefit program for participants, widows and children of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male Study. The contractor will manage and coordinate all required services for approximately 10 elderly patients, to include health care, homemaker and personal care services directly related to the patient's health needs, safety and well-being, including round-the-clock home care, social work services and coordinating transportation and accompanying patients to medical appointments. The anticipated performance period is 12 months. Options may be exercised for four additional years. It is believed that the State of Alabama possesses the capability to coordinate and provide the various services state-wide needed to care for the study participants and their survivors. All responsible sources qualified to provide the foregoing services on a state-wide basis may submit a response which will be considered by the agency. See Note 22 (0283)

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