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99 -- DUAL ELIGIBLE BUY-IN PROGRAMS POC Lucille Fussell-Lee, Contract Specialist (410) 786-5447 The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) intends to award on a competitive basis, under the Simplified Acquisition Procedure (Dollar Threshold of $100,000) an award to modify already existent outreach materials and an outreach kit in a culturally competent manner in order to provide information to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and American Indian and Native Alaskan Populations about Dual Eligible Buy-In Programs and assist those populations in the application process. This would also include creating new outreach materials and information delivery methods as appropriate, revision of current HCFA in-house screening tools as appropriate, creation and utilization of culturally competent information delivery infrastructures, referral to appropriate one-on-one application assistance and enrollment liaison efforts, and referral, as appropriate, to advocacy programs. The Contractor shall (1) convert all HCFA-provided materials into culturally competent formats, use social marketing techniques such as focus groups to tests converted materials, make appropriate adjustments to develop new materials and develop final outreach materials; (2) prepare a workplan which (a) identifies information infrastructures to be tests, (b) identifies representative community outreach individuals and groups, (c) selects pilot sites, and (d) develop targeted outreach approaches; (3) a draft report to analyze and evaluate information infrastructures used and effectiveness of materials, proposed changes to make materials more effective and the system more user-friendly, and recommend permanent channels of communications in reaching low-income and poverty level beneficiaries,and the applicability of such information infrastructures to other low-income Federal health insurance programs, such as the Children's Health Insurance Program; and (4)prepare a final report. A Request-for-Quote will be issued. Specific contractor's requirements will be outlined in detailed in the RFQ. Requests for all offerors may be faxed to (410) 786-9088 at the attention of Lucille Fussell-Lee or E-mail at LFussell@hcfa.gov. Posted 07/15/99 (I-SN354058). (0196)

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