U.S. Consumer Product Safety Comm, Division of Procurement Services, Rm 517, Washington, DC 20207-9932

B -- ALL-TRAUMA NEISS ADJUSTMENT FACTORS SOL CPSC-Q-00-5196 DUE 090600 POC Contact Dodie Kessler, (301) 504-0444 x1147/Contracting Officer, Robert J. Frost, (301) 504-0444 x1142 WEB: CPSC Homepage, http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/contract.html. E-MAIL: g: users adcb rdwrite cbd 00-5196, W-338 SN008207. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) intends to procure the services of a qualified contractor to perform the following services: The CPSC's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) consists of a national probability sample of 100 hospitals, drawn from the approximately 5,300 general hospitals in the U.S. with 24 hour emergency service. Since NEISS' inception in 1978, information has been collected by CPSC from the NEISS hospitals on all product-related injuries treated in the hospital emergency departments. CPSC staff and other researchers routinely compare annual estimates from the NEISS data to historical NEISS estimates to determine if there are significant increases or decreases in the number of product-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. The NEISS was expanded on July 1, 2000 to collect information on all trauma-related visits to the emergency departments. The purpose of this contract is to provide CPSC with a sound statistical measure of the impactthat the 'All-Trauma System' has on the national estimates derived from the NEISS. The contractor shall provide CPSC with statistical methods to compare NEISS estimates from before to NEISS estimates after the implementation of the All-Trauma System. These statistical methods will include methodology to compute adjustment factors and adjusted variances of historical NEISS estimates. The contractor will address the impact of the All-Trauma System on the overall NEISS estimates, estimates based on individual or groups of product codes, as well as other groupings such as work-related injuries. Request for Quotation (RFQ) No. CPSC-Q-00-5196 will be released on or about August 15, 2000, with quotations due on or about September 6, 2000. All responsible sources may request a copy of the RFQ by fax at (301) 504-0628. No telephone requests for copies of the RFQ will be accepted. Competitive Simplified Acquisition Procedures will be utilized in accordance with FAR Part 13. The SIC Code is 8999 with a small business size standard of $5.0M. This is an unrestricted procurement. The small business size standard is provided so that offerors can appropriately represent themselves as small or large. The final award will be based upon a combination of demonstrated ability to perform the work, demonstrated ability to provide high quality work products, quoted price, and past performance in similar or related work. Posted 07/20/00 (W-SN477147). (0202)

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