SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (Sampling)
- Notice Date
- 1/29/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541910
— Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- YRB-ARRA-01
- Archive Date
- 3/12/2010
- Point of Contact
- Chasity N. Ash, Phone: 7704881301
- E-Mail Address
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CNAsh@cdc.gov
(CNAsh@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY UNDER THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT (ARRA) PROGRAM. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITTION, REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP), INVITATION FOR BID (IFB), REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ), REQUEST FOR APPLICATION OF A SOLICITATION AND DOES NOT ASSUME THE GOVERNMENT WILL AWARD A CONTRACT OR PROCEED WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE SOLICITATIONS IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THIS NOTICE IS ONLY FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES. This is a sources sought notice to determine the availability of potential vendors (including, but not limited to, small business (e.g. 8(a), veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantage business, and women-owned small business)) that can produce the sample for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) projects for up to 3 years. The BRFSS is a state-based system of continuously collected health surveys. Established in 1984, the BRFSS is a collaborative effort between 50 states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with program support from the Division of Behavioral Surveillance, Public Health Surveillance Program Office (proposed), Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (formerly the Behavioral Surveillance Branch (BSB), Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion). CDC provides cooperative agreement funds through CDC FOA DP-09-901 and DP09-902 to grantees for activities related to the data collection and survey implementation. Each state has a stand alone survey comprised of a core survey asked across ALL BRFSS sites, optional modules, and state added questions. The state projects are responsible for their state's respective data collection and accomplish this through either a contract to a marketing research company, a contract to a university based call center, or through their own health department in-house call center. The content of the BRFSS is jointly developed with input from CDC and state public health representatives. The BRFSS collects information on an annual basis concerning health risk behaviors, clinical preventive health practices, and health care access, primarily related to chronic disease and injury, but also includes other topics of public health significance such as immunization, mental health, and emerging issues. Data are obtained from a representative sample of non-institutionalized adults, age 18 years and older. Along with funding of the cooperative agreement, is the responsibility of DBS to provide the bank of phone numbers for a target sample in each site, provide data management activities including data receipt, cleaning, editing and reporting, applying appropriate weighting routines, and provide technical and analytical support to grantees and data users on all of the aforementioned topics. For most states, the BRFSS is the only source for this type of information. BRFSS data are also increasingly being used by district, county, and city health officials to design health care programs, target and evaluation interventions, and inform policy makers and stakeholders of the current public health needs in their respective districts. BRFSS is a highly adaptable resource that generates high-quality data necessary to support public health education, promotion, and intervention programs. For more comprehensive information please see www.cdc.gov/brfss. The core tasks for the contract will include: I. TASKS The following tasks shall be performed by the contractor as indicated on individual orders. The contractor will: 1) Provide BRFSS/ARRA projects (to be determined including states, tribal organizations, communities, and territories) with RDD telephone numbers; 2) Identify business and non-working or disconnected telephone numbers or cell phones; 3) Establish a distribution procedure for sample records; 4) Provide BSB with quarterly reports of numbers of sample record; 5) Provide BSB with residential telephone or household estimates; 6)Provide BSB with electronic updates of Area Code changes by survey area; 7)Provide BSB with an electronic file of the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) upon request; 8)Provide BSB with technical information upon request; 9)Provide BSB with information on telephone number prefixes. The Contractor shall at a minimum have experience and capability in the following areas: 1. Within the past five years, demonstrate experience in producing statistically sound landline telephone sampling frames for communities defined by specific geographies such as counties, Zip Codes, Census tracts, Census blocks, municipalities in the United States (US). As well as in producing reliable landline telephone sampling frames for communities within Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and Guam. 2. Capability of creating a comprehensive and timely telephone sampling frames that is comprised of a compilation of large databases. Create a comprehensive telephone sampling frame by demographic classification such as African American, Hispanic, Native Americans, and Asians. As well as create a quarterly updated comprehensive sampling frame for multiple projects within 3-4 weeks before the sample is to be distributed. 3. Provide statistically sound disproportionate stratified sampling (DSS) using density stratification. 4. Identify non-working, business, and ported cell phones using an attended screening process that identifies on average 90% of non-productive numbers. Also, identify cell phones numbers on a real time basis. 5. Identify cell phone only blocks that can be used to generate the cell phone sampling frame. Ability to map cell phone switch centers to geography. 6. Ability to provide the highest address match rate by utilizing four different sources. 7. Demonstrated capability to de-duplicate the sample for the BRFSS/ARRA from the existing BRFSS sampling frame for the BRFSS State Based Sample and BRFSS/STEPS to a Healthier U.S. Sample. This ability to remove duplicate phone numbers from the screened sample is essential to avoid possible calls to the same household numbers in the previous two sampling frames. 8. Provide a trained member of your staff that will be able to handle all task areas as stated above. CAPABILITY STATEMENTS MUST DEMONSTRATE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OUTLINED ABOVE. Capability statements shall include the following information: company name, address, point of contact, phone/fax/email, and business size and status (e.g. small business, 8(a), veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantage business, and women owned small business). The NACIS code for this requirement is 541910 Interested parties having the capabilities necessary to perform the stated requirements may submit capability statement (maximum 5 pages) via email to CNAsh@cdc.gov. The subject line of the email shall be "BRFSS/ARRA Sampling Capability Statement." Responses are due no later than Feb 12, 2010 by 4:00PM EST. Capability statements will not be accepted after the due date.
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