SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Handbook on Well Being
- Notice Date
- 10/27/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Station Support/Simplified Acquisitions, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892
- ZIP Code
- 20892
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-NIH-DA-SBSS-10-002
- Point of Contact
- Susan Nsangou, Phone: 3014432104
- E-Mail Address
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nsangous@mail.nih.gov
(nsangous@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) recognizes that developing more robust and comparable measures of people's subjective well-being can play an important role for decisions aimed at improving the living and working conditions of different population groups, including elderly people. These measures hold the promise of allowing disentangling the importance of different factors (such as working conditions, health status, transport) that prevent elderly people from living in conditions of greater autonomy. They may shed light on the importance of people's appreciations of their own health (beyond objective measures of their physical functioning) on the quality of their life, and to measure some of the secondary effects of health status. Given the emphasis now given, in the United States as elsewhere, to enhancing people's physical and mental health - including feelings of well-being - rather than simply preventing mortal disease, information on subjective health and well-being can play an important role in guiding policies and delivering higher-quality services. NIA has a strong interest and investment in recent years in research on the domains of well being, and has supported research on the development of measures using various theoretical frameworks. At this juncture, it would be of great value to have an independent international group of statisticians and economists to evaluate the validity and usefulness of these domains and their instruments, and provide guidance on developing instruments or interview items for use in population or national surveys. To this end, NIA looks to evaluate the current state of research and methods development for the measurement of well being, and based on the findings of this report, develop a handbook. This proposed handbook, the outcome of a joint effort of the academic and the statistical community can raise awareness on the importance of subjective well-being measures of different population groups (children, adults, elders) as well as identify the best approaches for measuring in reliable and consistent ways the various dimensions of subjective well-being. Such measures could be produced through dedicated surveys or by including suitable questions in existing surveys undertaken as part of the National Statistical System of each country. Background Building on the workshop "Measuring Subjective Well-Being: An Opportunity for National Statistical Offices?", jointly organized with ISTAT in Florence on 23-24 July 2009), research activities (e.g. the ongoing Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development {OECD} project on "Subjective Well-Being and Social Policies", undertaken by the OECD Social Policy Division in co-operation with Prof. Andrew Clark, Paris University), and taking into account the work and public reports from the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, established by the French Presidency in early 2008 and chaired by Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz, the OECD Statistics Directorate. Specific Requirements Task 1: Development of handbook for use by National Statistical Agencies. Develop a study team which will hold a series of meetings and draft a handbook or manual on the use of measures of well being in the context of national statistical agencies and surveys. The handbook could consist of a report of around 100 pages, to be released in both paper and electronic forms. A number of dissemination activities (workshops, seminars) will be held in various OECD countries in mid 2011 to discuss the content and implementation of the handbook. Subtask 2.1: Appointment of Study Panel Establish a group of advisors to oversee the preparation of the handbook. This advisory group will gather a number of times over a period of 18 months. Members of this advisory group may include representatives from academia, international organizations, national statistical offices and commercial providers. Subtask 2.2: Development of draft handbook Advisory group members will comment on various drafts of the handbook, and provide written inputs to be used in its preparation. They will jointly share authorship for the handbook. A preliminary draft of this handbook would be discussed in the summer of 2010, and undergo final editing in mid 2011. Task 3: Publication and dissemination of handbook Members of the OECD Statistical Committee will be asked to endorse the handbook through a written procedure. The handbook will most likely consist of a report of around 100 pages, to be released in both paper and electronic forms. A number of dissemination activities (workshops, seminars) will be held in various OECD countries in mid 2011 to discuss the content and implementation of the handbook. The Government is requesting information regarding respondents': (a) staff expertise, including their availability, experience, and formal and other training; (b) current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work; (c) prior completed projects of similar nature; (d) corporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information. Respondents are requested to provide DUNS number, organization name, address, point of contact, and size and type of business (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, etc) pursuant to the applicable NAICS code. Respondents are requested to provide the capability statements in pdf format and emailed to nsangous@mail.nih.gov by the stated date and time. Statements should not exceed 10 pages. Disclaimer and Important Notes. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s.)
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