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B -- CREATE A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RISK COMMUNCATIONS SOL RFQ90115(NR) DUE 061799 POC Marsha Gorham, Purchasing Agent, & Todd Cole, Contracting Officer The National Cancer Institute plans to procure services from Rutgers State University, 58 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NY 08854-8010 to create a bibliography on risk communications. Specifically, the bibliography will focus on delivery methods of health communications to effectively reach large populations, how to influence health attitudes and behavior, and how to disseminate these findings to the research community and the public. Dr. Weinstein is uniquely qualified as a researcher with regards to his experience in the application of research to public health and policy and to review and evaluate recognized articles for a bibliography of risk message data. Dr Neil Weinstein, a pioneer with 20 years experience on risk communications and messages is a national expert in the field, and he is a professor at Cook College of Rutgers University. He is widely published in this field and has produce bibliographies that are solely on the scientific methodology, conceptualization and theory development content of periodicals. (1) The Contractor shall plan and supervise a search consisting of approximately 4,000 entries from empirical research, publications, and on-line databases to compile a final bibliography. (2) The final bibliography shall consist of approximately 500 recent representative publications, addressing ways of explaining the size and nature of health risks to lay people. (3) Review documents shall comprise reports of empirical research in which risk messages are tested, reviews of empirical research on risk messages, and discussions of health/risk communications that include considerations of how people think about risk, message content, new delivery techniques, or evaluation. (4) The contractor shall include expert reviews and expert comments (annotations) on the articles to be included as part of the bibliography. (5) The reviews (annotation) shall consist of the scientific methodology, conceptualization and theory development in the articles. [The bibliography shall exclude discussions/articles limited to politics, law, institutions, ethics trust or credibility in health risk communications]. The focus shall remain strictly based on the scientific field of risk perception, communication and health protective behavior. Dr. Weinstein is the only known expert that can review articles/periodicals from a purely scientific perspective on risk communication. Furthermore, he has a firm grasp of the scientific literature and has produced similar bibliographies with annotations. Thus, Rutgers is the only source known to the NCI researcher that can provide a bibliography in the area of risk communication and provide expertise, criticism via review comments/annotations. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotes. However, if any interested party believes it can meet the above requirements, it may submit a statement of capabilities. The capability statement and any other information must be in writing and must contain material in sufficient detail to allow NCI to determine if the party can fully meet the requirement describe above. Capability statements must be received in the contracting office by 1:30 P. M. EST, on June 17, 1999. If you have any questions, please contact Marsha Gorham, Purchasing Agent on (301)402-4509. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Posted 06/01/99 (W-SN337375). (0152)

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