SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- Supplement on Patient Safety and Medical Liability: Demonstration Grants
- Notice Date
- 11/14/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 511120
— Periodical Publishers
- 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
- AHR144815
- Archive Date
- 12/16/2014
- Point of Contact
- Sara J. Marrie, Phone: 3014437599
- E-Mail Address
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sara.marrie@psc.hhs.gov
(sara.marrie@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Pursuant to the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), the Contracting Officer may solicit from one source if the Contracting Officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source is reasonably available. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Program Support Center (PSC), Acquisition Management Services (AMS), on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) intends to sole source to: Health Research & Educational Trust - Health Services Research (HRET/HSR) 155 North Wacker, 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 In accordance with FAR 5.207(c), AHRQ's requirement is described as follows: (1) National Stock Number (NSN): N/A (2) Specification: AHRQ is seeking a journal supplement on patient safety and medical liability: demonstration grants for a period not to exceed 10 months. AHRQ's objective is to review, edit, and manage all aspects of editorial production for a special supplement of Health Services Research (HSR). HSR shall prepare a series of papers from demonstration grants that were funded under AHRQ's Patient Safety and Medical Liability Initiative. This supplement will focus on the outcomes and progress of the demonstration grantees, and will include commentaries and guest authors. (3) Manufacturer: Health Research & Educational Trust (4) Functional Description: HSR is the primary publication outlet for AcademyHealth, the professional association for health services research professionals. AHRQ is proposing to acquire a journal supplement with HSR. The purpose of this special supplement is to document and describe the key aspects of this groundbreaking federal initiative and the evaluation of that effort. It is critical that the outcomes of this report be communicated to potential users in the healthcare field through the professional journal as a relevant communication channel by using a journal that has a balanced perspective, relevant audience, and an established peer-review process with access to experienced experts. (5) Predominant material of manufacture: N/A (6) Quantity: electronically and/or printed resource - page limitation TBD for manuscripts (7) Unit of issue: page limitation TBD for manuscripts (8) Destination information: AHRQ 540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850 (9) Delivery Schedule: N/A 10) Duration of the contract period: Period of performance shall not exceed 10 months from date of award. 11) Sustainable acquisition requirements: N/A 12) Description of Procedure: This is a presolicitation notice of intent to sole source. This is not a solicitation for competitive proposal. No solicitation document is available. The anticipated award date is no later than January 6, 2015. 13) Architect-Engineer Project: N/A 14) Trade Agreement Clauses: N/A 15) Sole Source Justification: The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Program Support Center (PSC), Acquisition Management Services (AMS), on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), intends to sole source to: Health Research & Educational Trust - Health Services Research (HRET/HSR) 155 North Wacker, 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 HSR is the primary publication outlet for AcademyHealth, the professional association for health services research professionals. AHRQ is proposing to acquire a journal supplement with HSR for many reasons which include the broad and relevant audience for this journal, and the quality of this publication's peer-review process. A special supplement with HSR offers the unprecedented opportunity to advance research findings from AHRQ's patient safety and medical liability demonstration grant program to the health services research community. This audience will be able to take these learnings and foster additional improvements in safety and the quality of health care delivery within the health services research field. Currently, research in this area has not been widely evident in the peer-reviewed literature and the rigor of HSR's review process will support the publication of strong papers and in turn, will further AHRQ's program activities and the field. HSR is also ranked among the top journals in the Institute for Scientific Information/ Thomson Scientific's "Health Care Sciences and Services" category of the Science Index, and in the "Health Policy and Services" category of the Social Sciences Index. Without a special supplement from HSR, the research findings of these grants are less likely to be prepared in a cohesive and impactful manner that enables AHRQ to provide the most comprehensive vehicle to disseminate research findings and advance federal program activities for public use. Because of its past accomplishments, experienced peer-review process for special supplements and access to the health care community, HSR is uniquely qualified to be a sole source contractor for the publication of a Special Supplement. Having identified such a source already, the contractor has an established process for producing a peer-reviewed journal supplement that would provide value to the Government and support AHRQ's research and program aims. 16) This is not a solicitation for competitive proposal. No solicitation document is available. All responsible sources that have determined that they can provide the same services may submit product information and a capabilities statement. The email subject line must reference AHR144815 Supplement on Patient Safety and Medical Liability: Demonstration Grants. All responses are due by December 1, 2014, 12:00 PM Eastern Time and can be sent to Sara Marrie at Sara.Marrie@psc.hhs.gov. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract base upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government.
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