SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks III (ACTION III)
- Notice Date
- 5/28/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541613
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- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, 12501 Ardennes Avenue, Suite 400, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 14-233-SOL-00119
- Archive Date
- 6/27/2014
- Point of Contact
- Shanelle Jackson, Phone: 3014432367
- E-Mail Address
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Shanelle.Jackson@psc.hhs.gov
(Shanelle.Jackson@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- On behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ), the Program Support Center (PSC) intends to solicit proposals for an IDIQ Master Contract which will entitle awardees to compete for individual task order awards, each of which will have its own specified scope of work or performance criteria. This IDIQ will be titled "Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks III (ACTION III)," and is intended to promote and support the development, implementation, and dissemination of interventions in health care delivery to measurably improve the safety, quality, affordability, and accessibility of health care in the U.S. Task Orders awarded under ACTION III IDIQ Master Contract will support field-based research focused on achieving one or more of the following objectives: • Developing an intervention designed to improve health care delivery or positively impact some system feature such as accessibility. Development will typically begin with scans and syntheses of relevant evidence and real world experience; it may also flow from comparative analyses of health system or provider performance (using available data bases) to distinguish performance variations and then drill down to account for differences; some task orders may focus entirely on such syntheses or data analyses as necessary steps toward developing interventions or action recommendations. • Pilot testing on a small scale in a real world setting a previously untested or inadequately tested intervention in order to assess its feasibility for addressing an identified health care problem. • Implementation in additional sites of an intervention that has previously been shown to be effective in a limited number of sites, with the goal of increasing knowledge about intervention characteristics, contextual factors, and implementation approaches that influence the course and outcomes of implementation. • Spread of one or more evidence-based interventions in order to achieve broad impact and/or evaluate different strategies for increasing the systematic and successful adoption and utilization of evidence-based practices. • Analysis and Assessment of outcomes, impacts, spread and sustainability of efforts to improve care delivery, in an effort to: determine the degree to which interventions achieved their intended objectives and were sustained and adapted over time, and identify factors that can trigger and shape efforts to change how care is delivered and drive the success or failure of those efforts. Organizations successfully competing for the ACTION III IDIQ Master Contract will be expected to meet the following requirements: • Provide evidence of relevant past experience and expertise in successfully: completing federal contracts; conducting field-based delivery system research; managing projects that use diverse methods to achieve broad and meaningful spread and uptake of evidence-based interventions (beyond simply publishing research reports in peer-reviewed journals); managing complex, collaborative research projects involving coordination across multiple, diverse sites and actors • Represent a Partnership of collaborating organizations with demonstrated capacities and resources needed to conduct field-based, delivery system research, including the ability to provide access to: a broad array of diverse providers and provider and system sites willing and able to serve as settings for field-based research, including (but not limited to) hospitals, integrated delivery systems, ambulatory care settings including Primary Care practices, Long Term Care Settings; a diverse mix of recipients of care; informed input and expertise from key individual and organizational stakeholders that shape care delivery; infrastructure necessary for conducting quantitative and qualitative research, including access to databases and information systems • Provide access to highly skilled personnel with the education, expertise, and experience necessary for managing and conducting field-based delivery system research, including expertise and experience in: diverse clinical and other relevant disciplines; the full range of implementation and evaluation research methods, including both qualitative and quantitative methods; evidence-synthesis; and spread of findings or products beyond simply publishing research reports in peer-reviewed journals. • Demonstrate an ability to identify and collaborate with additional organizations as needed to fulfill the specific requirements of an individual task order. Additional Information for Potential Offerers: • AHRQ expects to award 12-15 ACTIONIII IDIQ Master Contracts. • AHRQ expects that Partnerships will be composed of members that represent a broad array of organizations involved in health care delivery. These might include, but are not limited to, diverse health care provider organizations (e.g., hospital systems; ambulatory care practices; long-term care systems, Integrated Delivery System Networks); academic institutions (schools of medicine, nursing, public health, health policy, and management); health services research organizations; and organizations representing other diverse stakeholder who play central roles in shaping care delivery through payment, advocacy, or other means (e.g. professional or trade associations; quality improvement organizations; advocacy organizations). • There are no restrictions or requirements regarding the number or types of organizations that should be included in a partnership, and there are many different models that partnerships can consider in configuring themselves, including but not limited to the following two examples: • A partnership may wish to focus on a particular type of provider/care access organization (e.g. hospitals, long-term care facilities, primary care providers, safety net delivery systems, health plans) and enlist a diverse group of that type of organization; • A partnership may wish to enlist partners from a broad group of stakeholders who span the full range of settings within which care is delivered to a specific priority population (e.g., children, the elderly, the underserved). • While the specific number and range of settings and providers included in any specific partnership will not be specifically prescribed in the solicitation, AHRQ will seek to ensure a broad representation of providers and provider settings, populations served and geographic areas in its final selection of the 12-15 Master Contract Awardees. • Organizations that are interested in the conducting field-based, delivery system research (or in serving as test sites for ACTION III research), but that cannot show extensive evidence of past experience and success in all the required areas, are discouraged from applying as Prime Organizations under ACTION III. Instead, these organizations are encouraged to seek to participate in a Partnership that will be led by an organization with a proven track record in this area. ACTION II Fact Sheet, use this link: http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/translating/action2/index.html.
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