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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 13, 2004 FBO #0960
SPECIAL NOTICE

B -- Traumatic Brain Injury Data Comparability

Notice Date

7/11/2004
 

Notice Type

Special Notice
 

NAICS

541990 — All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Acquisition and Assistance Field Branch (Cincinnati), 4676 Columbia Parkway M/S C-4, Cincinnati, OH, 45226
 

ZIP Code

45226
 

Solicitation Number

Reference-Number-000HCE63-2004-10171
 

Response Due

7/26/2004
 

Archive Date

8/10/2004
 

Point of Contact

Jennifer Bayer, Purchasing Agent, Phone (513)533-8586, Fax (513)533-8283, - Dwight Favors, Supervisory Contract Specialist, Phone (513)533-8137, Fax (513)533-8283,
 

E-Mail Address

jmh8@cdc.gov, dyf3@cdc.gov
 

Description

Negotiations are being conducted on a sole source basis with Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corporation for a traumatic brain injury data comparability study. I. Background and Need Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is among the leading causes of death and lifelong disability among children and young adults in the United States. Approximately 250,000 Americans sustain serious TBI each year. The cost of TBI, from acute care, rehabilitation, chronic care, and indirect care is estimated at $56 billion annually. This estimate does not account for the tremendous financial and emotional costs borne by friends and family members of persons with TBI. Traumatic brain injury is largely preventable. However, the current lack of available information prevents public health professionals from accurately determining the numbers of persons affected, the severity of these injuries, underlying causes and risk factors, persons at increased risk, and the outcomes among survivors of traumatic brain injury. The CDC?s Division of Injury and Disability Outcomes and Programs, at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, is funding a TBI follow-up registry in South Carolina to determine the outcomes of TBI in a representative sample of people with TBI. The SC TBI Follow-up Registry provides unique population-based outcomes data on TBI in the US that can be compared with data from other national TBI outcomes studies. The NIDRR funded TBI Model Systems sites also collect detailed information on outcomes of TBI. However, their study population is limited to a subset of the TBI population that is severely injured and received inpatient rehabilitation. Public health professionals could gain insight into unique sample characteristics of the TBI Model Systems by comparing selected pre-injury, injury-related and follow-up indices with population-based estimates of these variables derived from the CDC-funded SC TBI Follow-up Registry. In this way, the sample distribution of the TBI Model System could be ?anchored? in the context of population-based estimates. This contract proposes analyses on demographic, pre-injury, injury severity, and outcome indices that are shared by the TBI Model Systems National Dataset and the South Carolina TBI Follow-up Registry. This activity is covered in PL. 104-166, the Traumatic Brain Injury Act, which authorizes CDC to collect and disseminate information on the prevalence of disability associated with TBI. II. Purpose The purpose of this contract is to obtain expert assistance for the Division of Injury and Disability Outcomes and Programs, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to increase our knowledge by comparing data from the CDC-funded SC TBI Registry with those from the NIDRR-funded TBI Model Systems. Products will include a detailed technical report of the study methods and findings. III. Scope of Work The vendor will consult with the Program Development and Surveillance Team, Division of Injury and Disability Outcomes and Programs, to develop an analysis plan for comparing data from the TBI Model Systems and SC TBI registry data sets. The vendor will then analyze the data and produce draft data tables, submit them to CDC and NIDRR for comments, and based on those comments, revise the tables and prepare a draft technical report. They will then submit the draft report to CDC and NIDRR for additional comments, and then prepare and submit to CDC a final technical report. The focus of the vendor?s role will be as an expert in analyzing TBI Model Systems and SC TBI Registry data. The data, technical report, study methods, and findings, derived from this contract will be a key component of a national conference demonstrating interagency collaboration on research into TBI, its underlying causes and risk factors, and outcomes among survivors. The vendor will be responsible for convening an inter-agency workgroup comprised of experts in the field of TBI research. This workgroup will team with the vendor and provide expert scientific consultation as well as collaboration in the area of program planning. The vendor must possess the unique ability to conduct both the scientific and programmatic aspects of this procurement. IV. Specific Tasks/ Deliverables/Due Dates: The vendor will perform the following tasks: Task # 1. Participate in a teleconference with CDC and NIDRR staff to discuss plans for the data analysis. Activity 1: Teleconference with CDC and NIDRR on plans for data analysis. By September 15, 2004 Task # 2. Prepare a data analysis plan, including draft table shells. Activity 1: Draft data analysis plan distributed to CDC and NIDRR. By October 15, 2004 Task #3. Analyze the data and prepare draft tables of results. Activity 1: Draft tables of results distributed to CDC and NIDRR. By February 15, 2005 Task # 4. Prepare a draft technical report. Activity 1: Draft technical report distributed to CDC and NIDRR. By April 15, 2005 Task # 5. Revise draft and prepare final technical report. Activity 1: Revised report distributed to CDC and NIDRR. By June 15, 2005 Activity 2: Final technical report submitted to CDC and NIDRR. By August 15, 2005 Task # 6. Conduct conference calls with staff of the SC TBI Registry to coordinate activities 1-5 above. Activity 1: Conduct a minimum of 4 quarterly conference calls with CDC, NIDRR, and SC TBI Registry staff to review progress at dates and times to be determined. Task # 7. Convene an inter-agency workgroup comprised of experts in the field of TBI research to provide expert scientific consultation for conference planning. Activity 1: In consultation with CDC and NIDRR develop list of experts and distribute invitations for participation on workgroup. By September 15, 2004 Activity 2: Engage a meeting planner to assist with site selection and conference logistics. By TBD Activity 3: Convene periodic in-person and teleconference meetings of the Planning Committee. Activity 4: Print preliminary "Save the Date" conference announcements and advertising in professional journals. Activity 5: Develop a detailed budget for the conference, including costs for conference products. V. Other Requirements Technical Reporting Requirements Provide both CDC and NIDRR with original plus 2 copies of 1. Draft documents, tables and final reports. 2. Submit a total budget including a detailed budget break-down for all tasks (1-7). Through this announcement, alternate sources are being offered the opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities to provide the services specifically identified above. To be considered qualified, sources must submit a capabilities statement that demonstrates in writing their ability to meet the following requirements: It is the intent of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, GA to solicit and award a purchase order as a sole source requirement To be considered for possible award of a purchase order, the project requires that the contractor have access to the combined datasets from all TBI Model Systems sites in the US. The potential source must submit evidence that it has access to all of the necessary data. The project also requires extensive experience in analyzing and interpreting the Model Systems data. The potential source must have the relevant experience, having analyzed, interpreted and reported on the data for numerous publications. Sources with individual model systems sites typically only analyze the data from their own sites and will not be considered. Larger multi-site data set analysis is required. The Government intends to acquire an analysis of demographic, pre-injury, injury severity, and outcome indices that are shared by the TBI Model Systems National Dataset and the South Carolina TBI Follow-up Registry. Proof of the ability to provide analyses of these data is required. Interested firms must submit their capabilities to provide an analysis of demographic, pre-injury, injury severity, and outcome indices that are shared by the TBI Model Systems National Dataset and the South Carolina TBI Follow-up Registry. Qualified organizations must submit a capabilities statement which addresses the requirements and contains material in sufficient detail to allow the CDC to determine if the party can perform this requirement. Capabilities are to be received in the contracting office no later than fifteen (15) days from the date of this announcement. Submit written information to: CDC/NIOSH, ATTN: Jennifer Bayer, Mail Stop C-4, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, reference #000HCE63-2004-10171. The intent of this synopsis is to determine whether alternative sources exist. Information received will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement is based upon responses to this notice and is solely within the discretion of the Government.
 

Place of Performance

Address: various

Country: USA
 

Record

SN00618762-W 20040713/040711211521 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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