Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Division of Contracts Management, Parklawn Building, Room 13C-06, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.

B -- HIV/AIDS EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PSYCHOLOGISTS SOL SAMHSA-98-8011 DUE 051898 POC Beatrice Woods, Contracting Officer at 301-443-0043 The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is proposing to award a sole source contract to the American Psychological Association (APA). The purpose of this procurement is to continue providing Psychologist practitioners nationwide comprehensive education and training in the direct care of and support for people affected by and living with HIV/AIDS. The contractor must be able to provide highly focused educational programs and materials, and in a mechanism to remain current with research and other activities in the field, that will be available over time to an increasing cadre of psychologists whose professional services in the neuropsychiatric and psychological aspects of AIDS and HIV disease that will be needed well into the next century. The goal includes several specific objectives: (1) to provide administrative support for regional psychologist trainers including approving promotional materials for local training and distributecontinuing education credits; (2) to develop new curriculum modules that incorporate the current state-of-the art advances in the treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS into an updated educational program for psychologists; (3) to conduct a National Training Conference (NTC) to: (a) train and certify 50 practicing psychologists from under served areas to deliver HIV/AIDS training to practicing psychologists in their local areas (using HOPE program curricula); (b) expand the capabilities of the HOPE program's existing network of regional trainers by providing an opportunity for 100 active HOPE Regional Trainers to participate in a core delivery of the Ethics Curriculum; (4) to provide technical assistance to regional psychologist trainers who use HOPE program curricula to train 3,000 local psychologist practitioners, in 3 years; and (5) to deliver a training-of-trainers of the Ethics Curriculum for training faculty of the CMHS-funded Mental Health Care Provider Education in HIV/AIDS Program II. The APA is the only known organization that have knowledge of, and credible access to psychology faculty at graduate and professional schools and internship programs nationwide and have credentials for developing and accrediting graduate level education. APA also have the experience and capability to obtain the participation of psychologist in areas of the country where HIV/AIDS training and education has not yet been conducted. Accordingly, it is the intent of SAMHSA, CMHS to award a three (3) year cost reimbursement completion type contract on other than full and open competition, consistent with Federal Acquisition Section 6.302-1 Inquiries regarding this proposed procurement should be addressed to Beatrice Woods, Division of Contracts Management, OPS, SAMHSA. Telephone requests will not be honored.***** (0083)

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