SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Knowledge Transfer
- Notice Date
- 10/20/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, Maryland, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- HHS-AHRQ-SBSS-12-002
- Point of Contact
- Erin B. Mills, Phone: 3014271169, Jessica Alderton, Phone: 301 427-1783
- E-Mail Address
-
Erin.Mills@ahrq.hhs.gov, jessica.alderton@ahrq.hhs.gov
(Erin.Mills@ahrq.hhs.gov, jessica.alderton@ahrq.hhs.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. Background: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care. AHRQ sponsors and conducts research that provides evidence-based information about health care outcomes, quality, cost, use, and access. In addition, AHRQ is committed to writing, editing, and designing publications and other tools and materials that help AHRQ's key target audiences understand how to put research findings and related products into practice. Equally important, AHRQ supports initiatives that disseminate and help move research into practice. As a result, health care decisionmakers (including consumers) are able to make informed decisions that improve the quality of health care services. The Office of Communications and Knowledge Transfer (OCKT) manages and coordinates the Agency's knowledge transfer, marketing, media, and publishing projects. OCKT is the organizational unit of AHRQ that is responsible for ensuring that information about Agency products and sponsored research is available to a wide array of target audiences and is actually implemented in the health care system. AHRQ organizes and prioritizes research, products, and tools supported by the Agency into six Portfolios of work. These six portfolios (Patient -Centered Health Research, Prevention and Care Management, Value, Health Information Technology, Patient Safety and Innovation/Emerging Issues) have become the organizing framework for how Agency research is funded and disseminated. AHRQ's Knowledge Transfer Program is intended to accelerate the dissemination and implementation of AHRQ's evidence-based products, tools, and research findings into the health care system. Some of the strategies and tactics used to reach target audiences and to encourage use and implementation of tools and products, include ongoing outreach to organizations and individuals through health communications and social marketing; partnership development; learning networks; educational outreach; individual and/or group technical assistance; events such as Web conferences, teleconferences, in-person meetings, conferences, forums, or symposia. For a list and description of current AHRQ KT/implementation projects, please go to the AHRQ Web site at http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ktint.htm. Purpose and Objectives: The objective of this multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract is to provide a contracting mechanism to facilitate and accelerate the dissemination and implementation of AHRQ's evidence-based products, tools, and research findings into the health care system through a variety of knowledge transfer strategies and tactics. This IDIQ contract is meant to serve the following Agency goals: •Safety and quality: Reduce the risk of harm by promoting delivery of the best possible health care. •Effectiveness: Improve health care outcomes by encouraging the use of evidence to make informed health care decisions. •Efficiency: Transform research into practice to facilitate wider access to effective health care services and reduce unnecessary costs. Specific objectives of Knowledge Transfer Task Orders (TOs) competed under this IDIQ contract vary and may include, but are not limited to: •Enhance awareness and knowledge among key target audiences about AHRQ's evidence-based products, tools, and research findings and how they may improve the quality of health care. •Assist target audiences in the actual implementation of AHRQ research, tools, and products. •Better understand target audience motivations and barriers to implementing AHRQ's evidence-based products, tools, and research findings. •Provide evidence-based tools and materials that meet the needs of specific target audiences in order to implement research findings. •Determine effectiveness of knowledge transfer activities. Project Requirements: Tasks under this contract may address several or specific health care issues and/or target audience(s). All work under this contract will be required via task order. Requests for Task Orders (RFTOs) under this master contract will cover a wide range of knowledge transfer activities including but not limited to: •Develop strategic knowledge transfer plans based on full understanding and knowledge of the target audiences to be reached; the relevant AHRQ portfolios, products, and materials to be disseminated; and any internal and external factors related to the project and AHRQ's products. •Conceptualize, develop, and test tools and materials for knowledge transfer and implementation of AHRQ research findings among target populations. Tools and materials may be new or synthesized from existing materials. •Implement plan for knowledge transfer of tools and materials to target populations using a variety of strategies and tactics. •Develop and collect metrics to determine the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. Anticipated Period of Performance: September 17, 2012 - September 16, 2017 Other Important Considerations: The Government requires a robust field of capabilities for each of AHRQ's six portfolios listed above, especially the Patient-Centered Health Research Portfolio. Capability Statement/Information Sought: Interested qualified small business organizations should submit a tailored capability statement for this requirement, not to exceed 15 single-sided pages (including all attachments, resumes, charts, etc.), presented in single-space and using a 12-point font size minimum, that clearly details the ability to perform the aspects of the notice described above. Statements should include 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. Statements should also include an indication of current certified small business status; this indication should be clearly marked on the first page of your capability statement, as well as the eligible small business concern's name, point of contact, address and DUNS number. Information Submission Instructions: All capability statements sent in response to this SMALL BUSINESS SOURCES SOUGHT notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Erin Mills, Contracting Officer, at: erin.mills@ahrq.hhs.gov in Microsoft Word (MS) or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) by Friday, November 4, 2011 12:00 PM EST. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. ANY RESPONSES RECEIVED AFTER THAT DATE AND TIME WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. 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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- Place of Performance
- Address: United States
- Record
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