SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Outcome Monitoring System for Post Acute Care Delivery
- Notice Date
- 4/16/2008
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 622110
— General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center/Office of Purchasing & Contracts, 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 106, MSC 5480, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-5480
- ZIP Code
- 20892-5480
- Solicitation Number
- HHSN269200700002C
- Response Due
- 5/30/2008
- Point of Contact
- Ann G Argaman,, Phone: (301) 594-5919
- E-Mail Address
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ann.argaman@nih.gov
- Description
- The National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, intends to negotiate a modification with Kaiser Foundation for Research, 1800 Harrison Street, 16th Floor, Oakland, California to their existing contract number HHSN269200700002C entitled “An Outcome Monitoring System for Post-Acute Care Delivery”. The original contract was to test the feasibility of implementing an Outcome Monitoring System (OMS) designed for use across all post-acute care settings, among a cohort of stroke patients. Patients would be enrolled during their hospitalization for an acute stroke and followed over time. The OMS would be administered at several points to characterize a patient’s functional status after utilizing different PAC settings. A secondary objective would involve an examination of outcomes of stroke patients based on their sites of care. This modification is to perform additional data collection using a new fixed form social/role function instrument which Kaiser will administer at 6 months post-stroke to participants enrolled in the OMS-PAC study. The instrument will be comprised of roughly 20-25 items from current calibrated item banks for social and role function scales that have been developed by Boston University HDRI. This instrument will be added to data collection that is currently taking place at 6 months post-stroke with active research participants (totaling 250 adults over the course of the study. By using this tool, insight will be gained into the relationship between the performance of basic tasks (such as mobility or cognition) as measured by the AM-PAC and participation in more complex social activities and roles as measured by the new social/role function instrument among adults following a stroke. This modification will also require Kaiser researchers to perform additional data collection for a sub-study of proxy and self-respondents using the AM-PAC with 25-50 research participant/proxy pairs. The sub-study will allow the Government to identify important differences in self responses to AM-PAC items compared to proxy responses and to examine potential bias in these responses. Participants who have already been enrolled in the study and are able to respond to the AM-PAC items for themselves will be paired with a proxy respondent for the sub-study. Both respondents will be administered the AM-PAC separately and their responses will be compared in subsequent statistical analyses. The appropriate statutory authority is 41 USC 253(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 5.302-1(a)(2) and FAR 6.302-1(b)(1)(i). The cited authority is applicable because Kaiser Foundation is the only source that can fulfill the requirements of this contract modification. An award to any other source would result in substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition. The additional data collection activities under this proposed contract modification must use the same participants that are enrolled in the OMS-PAC study for data consistency, integrity, quality, interpretability and to avoid an adverse impact on the meaningfulness of the final results.. This is NOT a Request for Proposals. If however, there are any responsible sources who feel they possess the abilities which would enable them to perform the additional data collection services contemplated for this proposed modification, they may respond by submitting a written narrative statement of capability within 45 days of this notice to Ann Argaman at the above address for consideration by the agency. Response must include detailed information clearly demonstrating the ability to meet all of these requirements. A determination by the Government to open this requirement to competition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
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