SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Notice of Intent to Sole Source for ASPR-OPP Special Project
- Notice Date
- 8/19/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, Acquisitions Management, Contracts, & Grants (AMCG), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR), Department of Health and Human Services, 330 Independence Ave. SW, G640, Washington, District of Columbia, 20201, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20201
- Solicitation Number
- 2011-ASPR-OPP-CPATH
- Archive Date
- 9/4/2011
- Point of Contact
- Brendan Miller, Phone: 2022600962
- E-Mail Address
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brendan.miller@hhs.gov
(brendan.miller@hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Secretary (OS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Division of Acquisition Management, Contracts and Grants (AMCG), intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and its Institute for Science and Global Policy (ISGP) to conduct a series of conferences with international stakeholders and governments. Through its ISGP, C-PATH can provide as a contractor to the HHS reports and products that provide insight into emerging S&T issues, their policy significance, and potential policy considerations of other countries that affect EPID, FSS, and SB. As part of this effort, the perspectives of sub-national groups are required. The ISGP can provide the HHS with a systematic, comprehensive, and international approach to these issues. The ISGP uses an ongoing, structured method to consistently provide the desired information in a format usable by analysts across a variety of HHS programs and offices. The first step in this structured process relies on a strategic roadmap derived from interviews and correspondence with world-class experts in the EPID field. The resultant strategic roadmap articulates how the complex EPID topics can be effectively debated among policy makers and selected S&T representatives through a series of conferences to be held over the subsequent one-year period. OBJECTIVES Programs within C-PATH's ISGP focus on those S&T issues that have been given priority by those participating governments as being of significance in both domestic and international policy. By undertaking such a program, the ISGP focuses on three distinct, but related activities: (1) Conducting interviews and correspondence with globally recognized subject matter experts designed to obtain their views of (i) the current realities that accurately characterize the S&T topic, (ii) the scientifically credible opportunities and challenges available to effectively meet societal needs, and (iii) the policy issues (advantages and risks) associated with the S&T topic that societies must consider. These views are used by the ISGP to prepare a Strategic Roadmap that describes a series of conferences based on extensive critical debates between scientists and policy makers from throughout the international community. (2) Organizing and convening the conferences that are identified in the Strategic Roadmap. Each ISGP conference is conducted in a "not-for-attribution" environment with the scientific presenters selected by the ISGP and the policy/expert audience selected by each participating government. (3) Preparing "not-for-attribution" summaries of each critical debate and obtaining areas of consensus and next steps from the participating country representatives. This information together with the eight policy position papers written by the scientific experts are published in a book prepared by the ISGP and made available publicly. SCOPE Based on an EPID Strategic Roadmap, the organizational work needed to plan and convene an ISGP conference over next 12 months focusing on Emerging and Persistent Infectious Diseases issues is to be undertaken. The format for this conference needs to emphasize critical debates of written policy position papers prepared by subject-matter experts chosen by the ISGP for their credentials and articulation. The audience is to be international in nature and comprised of representatives from both the technical and the policy communities in the participating countries (currently, the United States, Italy, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Canada, and Singapore). The agenda and scientific participants for each conference are to be determined from interviews and correspondence with recognized S&T experts who are associated with a respected academic or scientific organization and having an international perspective. Attention is to be given to identifying relevant policy issues and their potential societal impacts. The conference is to be conducted under not-for-attribution environment. Not-for-attribution reports are to be prepared by the ISGP staff to reflect the discussions within each conference concerning the state-of-the-art scientific choices for addressing EPID/ FSS/SB issues and the policy significance of the emerging EPID/ FSS/SB capabilities (aka "technology issues"), perspectives of various social and demographic groups, and potential for impacts on societies considered. Requirement/Tasks Four primary tasks are required for fulfillment of this contract: (i) update and more fully integrate relevant scientific and policy issues concerning FSS and SB into the EPID Strategic Roadmap using interviews, correspondence, and the review of national and international reports, (ii) select scientific presenters, undertake organizational activities (contacting potential venue sites, examining travel options, and preparing ISGP staff for participating) needed to convene an ISGP conference on EPID/ FSS/SB, (iii) contribute to preparing not-for-attribution summaries of the presentations, discussions, debates, and caucuses from the EPID/ FSS/SB conference for delivery to HHS, (iv) contribute to the briefing of HHS personnel and selected invitees following the ISGP conference on EPID. The contractor shall accomplish the following: • 4.1 Task One (Update and Integrate EPID/ FSS/SB issues into the Strategic Roadmap): Based on collaborations with subject-matter experts in the US and abroad, those FSS and SB issues that are of importance in the examination of EPID will be integrated into the conference agenda of an ISGP conference. The selection process needed to identify the appropriate scientific participants invited to prepare policy position papers on relevant scientific and policy issues will be added to the processes used for identifying EPID scientific participants. • 4.2 Task Two (Select EPID/ FSS/SB presenters and contribute to the organizing and convening of an EPID conference): The contractor shall select scientific presenters and help logistically organize and convene an ISGP conference on EPID/ FSS/SB. The process begins with the selection of about eight subject-matter experts for a conference. These scientific experts are invited to prepare concise position papers on a specific aspect of the EPID/ FSS/SB topics. The format for the ISGP conference focuses on critical debates of the position papers (about 90 minutes for each scientific participant). These debates are led by the audience of policy attendees selected by each participating country. • 4.3 Task Three (Assist in the preparation of the not-for-attribution summary for an EPID/FSS/SB conference): The contractor's staff will attend all debates and caucuses to take notes reflecting the not-for-attribution presentations, discussions, debates, and caucuses. The resultant book containing this information is available to the HHS. • 4.4 Task Four (Brief of HHS and its invitees concerning the ISGP conference on EPID/ FSS/SB): At the invitation of HHS, the contractor will conduct a briefing in the Washington, D.C., area specifically for HHS personnel and its selected invitees concerning the results of the EPID/ FSS/SB conference. RESPONSES THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION ACTION IS FOR SERVICES FOR WHICH THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO SOLICIT AND NEGOTIATE WITH ONLY ONE SOURCE UNDER AUTHORITHY OF FAR 6.302-1. INTERESTED PERSONS MAY IDENTIFY THEIR INTEREST AND CAPABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE REQUIREMENT OR SUBMIT PROPOSALS WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. A DETERMINATION BY THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO COMPETE THIS PROPOSED CONTRACT ACQUISITION BASED UPON RESPONSES TO THE NOTICES IS SOLELY WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE GOVERNMENT. 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