SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Development of a Clinically-Useful Classification of Mental Disorders for Global Primary Care
- Notice Date
- 3/3/2011
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical 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
- 2006695
- 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 notice of intent, not a request for a proposal. A solicitation document will not be issued and proposals will not be requested. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Station Support/Simplified Acquisition (SS/SA) Branch, on behalf of the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) intends to solicit, negotiate and award a purchase order on a noncompetitive basis with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland for the support of developmental activities required to implement systematic program of the international and multilingual formative and evaluative field studies as part of the development of ICD-11 classification of mental and behavioral disorders. The project will develop a clinically useful classification of mental disorders for global primary care. It will determine: (1) How disorder categories should be organized to inform decisions about the overall architecture of the classification system by examining the relationship of possible structures to clinicians' conceptualizations of mental disorders and their clinical management; (2) Which disorders, conditions, or problems should be included in a diagnostic system to facilitate appropriate identification and treatment of mental and behavioral disorders at each level of care-mental health specialty, primary care, or RDoC-related research; and (3) How information for each disorder should be presented. Based on clinical utility as an overarching priority, formative field studies will address three broad questions: 1. How should the structure or architecture of disorder categories be organized in order to maximize clinical utility in different settings? 2. What categories should be included in a diagnostic system at each level of care in order to facilitate appropriate identification and treatment of mental and behavioral disorders? 3. How should the information for each disorder be presented in order to most useful to its intended users (e.g., prototypes, diagnostic guidelines)? Information from these field studies will be used as one important source of information in making decisions about the structure, content, and presentation of the ICD-11 classification of mental and behavioral disorders, both in a version for mental health specialists and in primary care. Following the development of the draft classification, evaluative field study protocols will be developed and implemented. Some of these may be analog studies (e.g., using clinical vignettes), but others will be implemented in international clinical settings using patient assessments in order to test clinical utility and other implementation parameters (e.g., reliability, cross-cultural applicability). The World Health Organization has unique capabilities to perform this contract due to: 1)access to an essential dataset necessary to complete the project; 2) significant first-hand experience in analyzing these data; 3) the necessary scientific and technical expertise a. Access to WHO International Classification of Diseases Version10 (WHO ICD-10) and Related Development Sites The core activities of the proposed project involve development of a clinically useful classification of mental disorders for global primary care within the WHO ICD-10. Access to WHO ICD-10 is essential for performance of this contract. The WHO ICD-10 is not publicly available and cannot be accessed by 3rd parties. b. Need to establish international field study centers to accomplish the work. The World Health Organization has established, expressly for this proposal, several international field study centers in low-, middle-, and high-income countries under the leadership of investigators who have a record of productive research and international collaboration focused on the diagnosis of mental and behavioral disorders. c. No other source has comparable capability. The WHO has developed ten versions of its ICD over many decades at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Initiative represents an investment of several decades and hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is estimated that any attempt at duplication of the WHO ICD would cost at least this much. The WHO ICD-10 is a proprietary classification system for mental disorders. d. Special Qualifications and Experience of the World Health Organization As an organization, WHO is uniquely capable of and suited for conducting the work described. WHO's constitutionally mandated functions, endorsed by 193 member countries, explicitly include the development and revision of international nomenclatures of diseases and the standardization of diagnostic procedures. WHO is the only organization with the ability to secure global cooperation and international agreement on health issues and is therefore in a unique position to initiate and promote global health standards, through its direct relationships with Ministries and Departments of Health in all its member countries. Consistent with WHO's charter to advance international public good, the ICD is a free and open resource for the global community, functioning as a tool for practitioners, researchers, consumers, administrators, and policy makers as they work to understand and communicate about diseases and to plan, finance, and evaluate health care. There are enormous advantages to conducting this program of work within the context of the ICD revision. Decisions that are incorporated into the ICD-11 will have immediate, broad, and lasting global impact. Moreover, implementing this program focused on mental disorders alongside the rest of the ICD revision will facilitate the search for related mechanisms of etiology, pathophysiology, and comorbidity of disease processes and providing a solid basis for the parity of psychopathology with the rest of the medical system for clinical, administrative, and financial functions in health care. WHO is in a unique position to clarify boundaries and overlap and to consider alternative distributions of diagnostic entities among disease areas. Questions of structure and architecture can be considered more broadly because they do not represent professional turf issues. The clearest example is the relationship of mental disorders diagnostic categories and criteria to those for neurological diseases, which has direct bearing on issues of central importance to RDoC. The fact that the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse has responsibility for both the ICD chapter on Mental and Behavioural Disorders and the chapter on Diseases of the Nervous System will support a thoughtful and clinically useful approach to the integration of mind and brain, and help to enhance the congruence of the next international classification for mental disorders with the perspectives and finding of RDoC. As a constitutionally mandated function of WHO, the ICD revision receives considerable attention and support from the organization as a whole. The proposed project will be a core activity of the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Additional information regarding the programs, project, and publications of the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse can be found at http://www.who.int/mental_health/en/. The WHO Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department has relationships with leading scientists throughout the world and an international network of Collaborating Centers with the capacity and commitment to work with the department on research and public health projects. The department's projects tend to be highly cost-effective because experts and governments are often willing to contribute large amounts of in-kind support. Operational responsibility for the revision of the ICD-10 mental and behavioural disorders classification is located within the department's Programme on Evidence, Research and Action on Mental and Brain Disorders. The objectives of the Programme include: 1) To collect, compile and disseminate information on mental health systems; 2) To develop evidence for mental health action including in emergencies; 3) To develop guidance for prevention and management of mental and neurological disorders, including among children and adolescents; and 4) To contribute to diagnosis, classification and burden estimation of mental and brain disorders. Additional information regarding the Programme on Mental Health Evidence and Research is available at http://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/en/. The period of performance is 12 months with the option of two additional 12-month period(s.) The place of performance is primarily Geneva, Switzerland. Therefore based on the aforementioned facts, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements FAR 6.302-1. The Government intends to select and evaluate and award the offer that represents the best value to the Government, price and all other factors considered. The acquisition is being conducted under simplified acquisition FAR 12 and is exempt from the requirements of FAR Part 6, Competition Requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this synopsis. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Comments to this announcement, referencing synopsis number NOI2006695 may be submitted to the NIDA, SS/SA Branch, 31 Center Drive, Room 1B59, Bethesda, MD 20892, Attention: Susan A. Nsangou, Contracting Officer.
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