Division of Contracts Management, Office of Program Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II, Suite 670, Rockville, MD 20857

R -- COMMUNICATIONS TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BUILDING SOL 277-98-6011 DUE 061098 POC Sheila Holmes, Contract Specialist at (301) 443-4980, Mary Anne Glitz, Contracting Officer The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) intends to negotiate and award one contract from this solicitation. Through this procurement, CSAP's Division of Prevention Application and Education (DPAE) will provide technical assistance to national, State and local organizations and groups, CSAP grantees, contractors, and to CSAP divisions and staff to facilitate prevention education communication capabilities and knowledge dissemination and application of prevention technologies to help prevent and reduce substance abuse. A special emphasis will be on providing technical assistance to CSAP's existing public education campaigns and initiatives that support the Secretary's Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative (YSAPI) and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy's (ONDCP) anti-drug media campaign. The Contractor will be required to provide both long and short term communications technical assistance to CSAP grantees, contractors, and constituent organizations on the national, State, and local levels. State-of-the-art application of public health and health communications principles and social marketing techniques will be basic to all training, technical assistance, and communications activities developed and/or delivered under this contract. The estimated date for issuance of this RFP is May 8, 1998 with responses due thirty day later. This solicitation may be obtained in either of two ways; by mail or by downloading a file from the World Wide Web at http://www.samhsa.gov/contract. Files will not be made available on the World Wide Web until on or after the estimated issuance date. The instructions to Download are posted the Web. Once downloaded, you should determine if you have a continuing interest in the RFP. If so, you must either write the contract specialist identified above that you wish to have copies of amendments to the RFP (if any) sent to you by mail or check the Web regularly for amendments which will also be posted there and can be electronically downloaded. You may choose any of the two methods for obtaining amendments. Note, however, that if you rely on the Web 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 filled on a first-come, first-served basis until the supply is exhausted. Requests shall be forwarded to the attention of Sheila Holmes, Contract Specialist, Division of Contracts Management, OPS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockwall II Building, Room 640, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Telephone requests will not be honored. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by CSAP. (0112)

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