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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF APRIL 14,1998 PSA#2073DHHS, HCFA, Health Care Financing Administration, Acquisition and
Grants Group, Division of Quality Contracts, 7500 Security Boulevard,
C2-21-15, Baltimore, Maryland Q -- PROMOTE EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS THAT FACILITATE HEALTHY
AGING AMONG MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES AGED 65 AND OLDER SOL RFP-98-0007/BG
DUE 051498 POC Beverly Gillette, Contract Specialist, 410-786-5142 and
Edward Hughes, Contracting Officer, 410-786-0203 The Health Care
Financing Administration (HCFA) will issue Solicitation #RFP-98-0007/BG
approximately 30 days after publication of this notice to develop an
evidence-based center on Healthy Aging, which will serve as the most
scientifically reliable and up-to-date resource on interventions that
preserve health and postpone chronic disease and disability in people
aged 65 and older. Research suggests that a major portion of the
physical decline among the elderly is caused more by the absence of
comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention strategies than
by aging. Successful interventions targeting the factors that
contribute to the most prevalent chronic diseases exist, but are not
widely known and practiced. HCFA is interested in using the best
available science to identify those interventions that have
demonstrated measurable success in reducing behavioral risk factors,
such as smoking, physical inactivity, falls, hypertension, and
nutrition, and improving the use of clinical preventive and screening
services, such as mammography, colorectal cancer screening, and
immunization. The goals of the healthy aging project are to: 1)
identify, analyze and synthesize the scientific evidence on health
promotion and disease prevention interventions, from published and
unpublished sources, that promote healthy aging; and 2) pilot test one
or more behavioral risk factor interventions for effectiveness with
Medicare beneficiaries. The contractor selected will conduct literature
reviews, perform supplemental analyses, synthesize results using
advanced analytic techniques and write two evidence reports -- one on
interventions that promote the use of clinical preventive and screening
services, and one on interventions that reduce behavioral risk factors.
The evidence reports will include results of completed analyses with
explicit documentation; present findings in the context of a
multi-disciplinary understanding of issues related to health care for
older people; extract principles that enhance the probability of
cost-effective implementation of interventions and will be presented in
the context of public policy, outcomes measurement, as well as
behavioral and clinical disciplines. Based on research findings, the
selected contractor will design one or more behavioral risk factor
reduction interventions to pilot test for effectiveness and
cost-effectiveness with Medicare beneficiaries. Two key skill sets will
be required: ability to synthesize and analyze evidence; and quality
improvement/applied research. Since all of these skills and expertise
may not exist in one party, HCFA encourages a prime
contractor-subcontractor relationship to conduct the activities of this
contract. The contractor will design, implement and evaluate the pilot
intervention(s), and write a detailed report on the results of the
intervention(s) which is suitable for publication in a scientific
journal. The report will include the impact of the pilot
intervention(s), evaluation methods used, including outcomes measured,
cost benefit/effectiveness analysis, recommendations for further
refinements and implementation strategies, and Medicare program
implications. The contractor must have core competencies demonstrating
experience and expertise in the following areas: geriatrics,
gerontology, epidemiology, preventive medicine, behavioral sciences,
nursing, intervention research, public policy, economics, decision
analysis, meta-analyses, technology assessments, searching science
databases, retrieving and abstracting scientific literature, evaluating
scientific credibility of published studies, and writing scientific
reports. The contractor must also have experience and expertise in
applied research, quality improvement techniques, and health promotion
and disease prevention interventions targeting the elderly. It is
anticipated that a Cost-Reimbursement Task Order contract will be
awarded (but HCFA reserves the right to award other types of contract
arrangements) with a one year period of performance plus 4 one-year
options. Requests for a copy of the solicitation must be submitted via
Internet (healthyaging@hcfa.gov) or in writing to: HCFA, Acquisition
and Grants Group, Division of Quality Contracts, ATTN: Beverly
Gillette, Mail Stop C2-21-15, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore,
Maryland 21244-1850. No telephone, facsimile or telegraphic requests
will be accepted. (0100) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0065 19980414\Q-0003.SOL)
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