SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Improving the Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Colonoscopy: Examining Sub-optimal Bowel Preparation Quality and Strengthening the Evidence Base for Screening and Surveillance Guidelines
- Notice Date
- 8/26/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 611310
— Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 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
- 2013-Q-16158
- Archive Date
- 9/13/2013
- Point of Contact
- David M. Kelley, Phone: 7704882662
- E-Mail Address
-
vrb7@cdc.gov
(vrb7@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is notice of intent to award a sole source contract and is not a request for competitive proposals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health, intends to solicit and enter into a contract with Trustees of Dartmouth College of Hanover, NH for Improving the Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Colonoscopy: Examining Sub-optimal Bowel Preparation Quality and Strengthening the Evidence Base for Screening and Surveillance Guidelines. The Government's requirements are: 1) The contractor will assemble a study team that includes researchers with necessary clinical and statistical expertise to analyze data from the NHCR to: (1)Explore issues related to bowel preparation quality: (a)Examine variation in the percentage of exams with fair/poor preparation by endoscopist and endoscopy center. The percentage of exams with poor or fair preparations will be examined. In addition, adenoma detection rates will be calculated for surveillance and screening exams separately. Serrated polyp detection rates will also be examined. (b) Determine patient and endoscopist/practice characteristics associated with fair/poor preparation. Patient and endoscopy characteristics will be examined to determine factors predictive of inadequate preparation. In addition, factors that are unique to each center will be examined. Methods of preparation such as split dose preparation as well as the type of instructions given to patients will be included in this analysis. (c) Examine the association between limited preparation quality and findings at colonoscopy, based on the findings at the baseline and subsequent exam. This analysis will provide evidence for establishing screening and surveillance guidelines for patients with suboptimal preparation quality. Longitudinal data will be examined from screening and surveillance colonoscopies performed in patients with baseline and subsequent colonoscopies in the NHCR. Using patient data such as demographic and lifestyle information, and quality data, the quality of preparation as a predictive factor for detection of advanced neoplasia will be examined. 2) Provide evidence for judging the appropriateness of existing surveillance guidelines by examining the association between findings at the first colonoscopy exam and findings at the second colonoscopy exam. Patients will be classified into high and low risk categories, based on findings at baseline and follow-up. For example, it is anticipated that a patient with 3 diminutive adenomas may have a lower risk for advanced neoplasia on surveillance than a patient with 3 adenomas, one of which is small or large. This issue has been highlighted within the MSTF recent guidelines, and has a potentially highly significant impact on patient risk and health-care costs.The Government intends to solicit, negotiate and award to only one contractor using other than full and open competition procedures pursuant to the authority of USC 2304(c)(1) pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(2)(i), supplies or services needed by the agency are available from only one responsible source and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy the needs of the agency. A determination not to compete this requirement is based on market research and is solely within the discretion of the Government. This announcement is not a request for competitive quotations. Interested parties who feel they possess the capabilities to provide the information described above should submit a capabilities statement demonstrating their ability to David Kelley by email at vrb7@cdc.gov. No solicitation is available and telephone requests for information will not be honored. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, the Government shall consider all responses received within three (3) days of this posting. A determination by the CDC not to compete this proposed contract, based upon responses to this notification, is solely within the discretion of the government.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: CDC & Vendor Facility, United States
- Record
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