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R -- NATIONAL INJURY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE RESOURCE CENTER SOL MCHB-Sources Sought DUE 032000 POC Suzanne Stinson -- 301-443-5130 E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract specialist via, sstinson@hrsa.gov. SOURCES SOUGHT ONLY. This announcement is a sources sought announcement, not a request for proposal or solicitation. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is seeking to identify sources capable of operating a national injury and violence prevention technical assistance resource center for HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau. This center must have the capability to provide information, training and technical assistance in child and adolescent injury -- both intentional and unintentional. The primary clients are State and local Maternal Child Health and other public health agencies. The contractor will also work with national organizations that support injury and violence prevention efforts at the State level and with organizations that reach children and adolescents in educational settings. Knowledge of other child- serving agencies working on injury prevention is necessary to promote needed collaboration. This center would serve as the lead center for a small network of centers, which are separately funded and which focus on specific aspects of injury and violence prevention including injury data, costs and economic impact of injury and prevention, and prevention of injuries in rural settings. The center must maintain a library of pertinent injury prevention materials, a bibliographic data base and have the capacity to provide information through the internet. This center must have offices near at least two Federal Regional Offices (see http://www.hhs.gov/about/regionmap.html), with one of the offices being located in the Washington, D.C. area. All sources that are able to perform this work must submit their interest in writing, including a written capability statement clearly illustrating their capability (knowledge, experience, resources) to respond to the work described (approximately 10-15 pages in length, see numbered Note 25), company name, address, telephone number, FAX number, type business (large or small business, educational institution, large or small non-profit, 8(a)etc.) and point of contact. Responses are due no later than March 20, 2000 and can be mailed, e-mailed or sent by FAX. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. The Government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this "sources sought" announcement. Should this market survey determine that there are organizations capable of providing such services, HRSA may release a Request for Proposal sometime in the future. The mailing address is Attn: Suzanne Stinson, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn Building, Room 13A-19, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. The FAX number is 301-443-6038, Attn: Suzanne Stinson. The e-mail address is: sstinson@hrsa.gov. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL OR SOLICITATION. See numbered Note 25. Posted 02/28/00 (W-SN429264). (0059)

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