SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Implementing Cost-Effectiveness for SPNS
- Notice Date
- 4/5/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Procurement Management, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13A-19, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- RFP05N2315253
- Response Due
- 6/5/2005
- Archive Date
- 8/25/2005
- Description
- The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is soliciting proposals from organizations to provide SPNS Grantees Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Evaluation Study. The contractor shall develop and implement a cost-effectives analysis (CEA) evaluation of three current SPNS initiatives and its service delivery models currently being evaluated. The NAICS Code is 541990 with a small business standard of 6.0 million. The SPNS Program is considered the research and development arm of the Ryan White CARE Act. SPNS assesses the effectiveness of innovative models of HIV care, supports the development of these models, and promotes the replication of effective models of care. The SPNS Program provides an opportunity to the HIV care community to develop innovative services by providing funding and expertise for grantees to evaluate innovations and disseminate findings to the HIV community. Today, a portfolio of 74 grants, funded either solely by the HIV/AIDS Bureau or in partnership with other Federal agencies address tomorrow?s issues in HIV care. SPNS grantees are funded among different type of HIV care settings. Approximately twenty-nine percent (29%) of SPNS grantees belong to university clinics, 26% to Community Clinics, 17% are Evaluation and Technical Assistance Centers, 15% belong to local or State Health Departments, 7% are Community Based Organizations, and 6% are from private or Non-Profit Organizations. SPSN grantees serve a variety of different sub-populations including communities of color and underserved highly in need of HIV care services. Our current priorities include: Supporting the coordination and integration of existing services for Native Americans/Alaska Natives living with HIV and other co-morbidities, Developing models of community-based health care networks that effectively reduce barriers to early identification of HIV disease and assure entry to high quality primary health care for individuals who live and/or work in the U.S. region of the U.S./Mexico border area, Evaluating the effectiveness of integrating Buprenorphine opioid abuse treatment into HIV primary care settings; Assessing interventions targeting HIV-positive individuals in clinical care, to prevent transmission to uninfected individuals and to prevent re-infection among people who are already infected with the virus; Identifying and evaluating effective models of outreach to underserved HIV positive people not in care; improving care and treatment of HIV+ persons of Caribbean descent by evaluating community-based peer programs that are serving people living with HIV who are underserved and of Caribbean origin; Assessing the extent to which information applied in various HIV care settings, can contribute to measurable and sustainable improvements in the delivery, quality and cost-effectiveness of care for people living with HIV (PLWH), especially among communities of color and underserved populations; Supporting the development and evaluation of innovative service models designed to reach HIV-infected young MSM not engaged in clinical care and to link them to appropriate clinical, supportive, and preventive services; Improving the quality of HIV care and Collaborating with CDC on interventions for HIV-positive substance abuse users and continuity of care for incarcerated individuals. A prospective award will be developed and implemented for a cost-effectiveness analysis evaluation of three current SPNS initiatives. The first is the Outreach and Intervention initiative, begun in 2001, as a two-phased five-year program of ten projects refining and evaluating current outreach strategies for bringing HIV-positive individuals into comprehensive continual care. The second initiative is Outreach, Care and Prevention Initiative to Engage HIV Seropositive Young MSM (Men who have sex with men) of Color, which began in 2004.This is a five-year program to develop and evaluate service models among eight grantees designed to reach HIV-infected young MSM not engaged in clinical care and to link them to appropriate clinical, supportive, and preventive services. The third initiative is Models of Peer Support for Caribbean?s living in the United States. Information on each of the SPNS initiatives is available at: http://hab.hrsa.gov/special/evaluation2g.htm. The Government anticipates award of a contract consisting of a thirty six -month?s Basic period. This is a pre-solicitation notice and not a request for proposals. The solicitation document (RFP) will be posted at this site www.fedbizopps.gov within thirty (30) days of this notice and can be downloaded by looking under the main menu for HHS/Office-Health Resources and Services Administration/locations-Division of Procurement Management. The closing date for receipt of proposals will be approximately thirty (30) days after issuance/posting of the RFP. It shall be the offeror?s responsibility to monitor this website for the RFP and any amendments to the RFP. The agency will consider proposals from all responsible sources. The contact person for this acquisition is: Debora A. Pitts, Contracts Operations Branch, DPM/OMPS/HRSA, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13A-19, Rockville, MD 20857-5600; phone number 301-443-3789 or 443-2750; FAX 301-443-6038
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