SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Comparative Effectiveness of Regionalized Emergency Care
- Notice Date
- 3/4/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, 330 Independence Avenue, SW, Rm G640, Washington, District of Columbia, 20201, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20201
- Solicitation Number
- 10-100-SOL-00015
- Point of Contact
- Deborah M Patrick, Phone: 202- 260-0689
- E-Mail Address
-
deborah.patrick@hhs.gov
(deborah.patrick@hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- BACKGROUND The Emergency Care Coordination Center (ECCC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was created in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 in order to: (1) lead an enterprise to promote and fund research in emergency medicine and trauma health care, (2) promote regional partnerships and more effective emergency medical systems in order to enhance appropriate triage, distribution, and care of routine community patients, and (3) promote local, regional, and State emergency medical systems' preparedness for response to public health events. The office, in coordination with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Service (FICEMS), addresses the full spectrum of issues that have impact on care in hospital emergency departments, encompassing the complete continuum of patient care from the pre-hospital environment to disposition from emergency or trauma care. The Office coordinates with existing executive departments and agencies that perform functions relating to emergency medical systems in order to ensure unified strategy, policy and implementation. The ECCC is guiding Federal efforts to implement the Institute of Medicine's (The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System) 2006 recommendation to develop regionalized, accountable systems of emergency care. As initial steps in promoting the development of regionalized systems of care, the ECCC funded an Institute of Medicine workshop (Regionalizing Emergency Care) and sponsored a national stakeholders meeting (Regionalization Demonstration: Concepts and Critical Features Roundtable) which helped to identify major issues, trends and areas where additional information would be constructive. The ECCC's next logical step is to fund projects to acquire more detailed information, data and best practices about regionalization of emergency care in four (4) component areas. The information and best practices resulting from these four projects will: a) help to develop suggested potential national guidelines for regionalization of emergency care; b) be useful in developing requirements for potential regionalization demonstration projects, and c) be useful in providing Federal technical assistance and support in the development of regionalized emergency care systems. OBJECTIVES A solicitation will be issued, on or about March 17, 2010, to acquire detailed information and information analysis about regional emergency care system development, operation and maintenance for each of four (4) projects comprising a comparative effectiveness research (CER) analysis. The program will result in separate contract awards for each major component area. The results of these projects will be of value in the development of a nation-wide system for regionalized emergency care delivery, providing technical assistance and in developing guidelines for subsequent demonstration projects. Each of these four projects will examine the evidence that supports best practices in regionalized care, provide information and lessons learned, and generate insights for systems of regionalized and accountable emergency care. Each of the projects must also support these broad project goals: 1. To identify current and potential performance measurements that impact the regionalization of emergency care, both at the patient and system level. 2. To examine the value of regionalization from both a patient and a system perspective. 3. To identify significant advances in the field of knowledge regarding emergency care regionalization that can be translated into improved regionalization efforts and shared in appropriate peer-reviewed literature. 4. To provide specific direction for future regionalization of emergency care efforts. SCOPE OF WORK The title of each project component is set forth below. The pending solicitation will contain more detailed information on the scope of work for each program area. Offerors will be expected to use the best science possible to achieve project purposes. It is recognized that complete national assessments of regional care delivery systems is not feasible for each of these projects. Components A, B and C are intended to programmatically inform the development of Component D leading to a comprehensive comparative effectiveness evaluation of Regionalized Emergency Care Delivery: Component A: Current Practices for Delivery of Regionalized Emergency Care in Time-Sensitive Clinical Conditions. Component B: Regionalized Emergency Care Information Management Component C: Patient Mobility Component D: Comparative Effectiveness of Regionalized emergency Medical Care Models The work plan and deliverables will be described in the solicitation. Offerors will be required to submit proposals for a minimum of one and maximum of four components. However, each component will result in a separate contract award.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: At the Successful Offeror's Place of Business, United States
- Record
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