SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Monitoring the adoption and effectiveness of Evidence Based Medicine practices throughout the EMS community - DTNH2216RQ-00199
- Notice Date
- 1/4/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTNH2216RQ-00199
- Point of Contact
- Vincent Lynch, Phone: 202-366-9568
- E-Mail Address
-
vincent.lynch@dot.gov
(vincent.lynch@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sources Sought Notice Action Code: Sources Sought Classification Code: A Solicitation: DTNH2216RQ-00199 Agency/Office: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Location: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration HQ NAICS Code: 541720, Research and Development in the Social Sciences, $20.5M. Point of Contract: Vincent Lynch, Contracting Officer, ph(202) 366-9568 Title: Monitoring the adoption and effectiveness of Evidence Based Medicine practices throughout the EMS community Description(s): The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to identify potential qualified Small Business (SB), Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns that may be interested in and capable of performing the work described herein to conduct research to track adoption, assess, and understand the impact of pre-hospital Evidence Based Guidelines (EBGs) on patient care outcomes from motor vehicle crashes and other health emergencies. NHTSA welcomes all qualified Small Business concerns, with the appropriate NAICS Code and past experience to submit their Corporate Capability Statements that demonstrate their ability to successfully accomplish the goals of the project as listed below. NHTSA does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses to this notice or otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. Acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made; no formal evaluation of the information received will be conducted by NHTSA. NHTSA may; however later on issue a Request for Proposals (RFP). However, should such a requirement fail to materialize, no basis for claims against NHTSA shall arise as a result of a response to this notice. Background: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) mission is to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and other economic costs. The agency develops, promotes, and implements effective educational, engineering, and enforcement programs with the goal of ending vehicle crash tragedies and reducing economic costs associated with vehicle use and highway travel. The Office of Behavioral Safety Research conducts extensive research, data collection and analysis activities to provide the scientific basis needed to support the Agency's motor vehicle and traffic safety goals. In addition to supporting internal NHTSA efforts, NHTSA-sponsored research provides high-quality publicly-accessible data that serves as the basis for countless other research endeavors. In 2001, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sponsored the creation of the National EMS Research Agenda; this document, among other important topics, advised the EMS community to apply evidence from scientific research to improve pre-hospital patient care. In 2006 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) furthered this recommendation by also advocating for evidence based guidelines (EBGs) in its report on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States. These documents led to recent efforts to create a nationally accepted evidence-based guideline model process that will allow Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Systems to provide scientifically validated, and more effective, pre-hospital care to the American public. NHTSA and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently sponsored the development of a number of EBGs focusing on topics such as pain management, trauma care, air medical transportation of trauma patients, pediatric seizure management, and pediatric respiratory distress. In addition to sponsoring the creation of EBGs, NHTSA is exploring the implementation of EBGs at the State level through a cooperative agreement awarded to the National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO) in 2012. As more EBGs are created and are adopted by States and EMS systems, it is critical that a method for tracking their implementation and effectiveness is conceived. The first step in tracking the implementation and effectiveness of EBGs is to assess the utility of currently available medical data from EMS information systems, States, and the Federal Government. Most States are now participating in the National EMS Information System, commonly known as NEMSIS, which provides the framework for collecting, storing and sharing standardized EMS patient care data. Participating States collect and transmit a subset of their data to the National EMS Database, where it is available for EMS stakeholders, researchers and public use. In addition, data not available to the national system may be available in individual State's individual EMS databases allowing for additional tracking and analysis not available on the Federal database. The existence of these sources of data provides a potential mechanism to track, assess, and understand the impact of pre-hospital EBGs on patient care outcomes from motor vehicle crashes and other health emergencies. Unfortunately, it is unclear whether the appropriate data exist, or are in the appropriate format for scientific assessment of the implementation and effectiveness of new EBGs. The current proposed project seeks to:, 1) create performance measures to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the EBGs over time, 2) determine whether the appropriate data exist in national and State databases to monitor and assess EBG implementation, 2) provide suggestions to State and national database managers that will assist them in modifying databases to improve EBG tracking, 3) Create performance measures for EMS agencies/systems to evaluate their implementation of EBG's, and 4) if appropriate data exists to track the implementation and effectiveness of EBGs, analyze the currently available data to show the beginning stages of EBG implementation. The results of the current research project will help improve pre-hospital emergency medical care for persons injured in motor vehicle crashes or who have other emergency health conditions, by helping Federal and State EMS stakeholders determine not only the rate of adoption and effectiveness of new EBGs, but it will also help them identify geographic areas where the adoption of EBGs could have the largest impact. Objective: The objective of this joint project between the NHTSA Office of Behavioral Safety Research and Office of EMS will seek to track adoption, assess, and understand the impact of pre-hospital EBGs on patient care outcomes from motor vehicle crashes and other health emergencies. Capabilities: The corporate capability statement must address the capabilities necessary to accomplish the scope outlined above as well as the additional tasks and characteristics given below. The capability statement must also demonstrate staff expertise and medical evidence based guideline creation and/or evaluation, expertise in prehospital emergency care, and statistical analysis of large state and National datasets: Create performance measures for each of three or more EBGs. The Performance measures shall address measures for tracking implementation and effectiveness of the EBGs over time. Determine whether data from the national NEMSIS 3.0 compliant EMS information database, data from a state EMS information database (either the NEMSIS 3.0 compliant data or custom data elements not in the NEMSIS standard) can be used to evaluate and track EBG implementation and effectiveness over time considering the performance measures. If some or all of the needed data for describing and tracking EBG implementation is not available in the national or state EMS databases, report what changes are required to EMS data collection methods or the database structure in order to make the data available in the future. In addition, report how state Custom EMS data, state NEMSIS 3.0 compliant data, and the national data differ in its ability to track adoption and effectiveness. Create performance measures and tools for the EBGs that EMS agencies/systems can use to evaluate their own implementation of the EBG's. If the appropriate data exist to evaluate current EBGs implementation and effectiveness, the Contractor may be required to analyze and report on the relevant state EMS and/or national NEMSIS data demonstrating the use of EBGs - specifically highlighting the differences between the state and national data. (Optional Task) Format of Corporate Capabilities Statement: Any interested qualified Small Business firms, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), 8(a) Certified SDB, HUBZone SB, SDVOSB, or WOSB concerns should submit their Corporate Capability Statement, which demonstrates the firm's ability and past experience in no more than 10 pages to perform the key requirements described above to the identified NHTSA point of contact listed herein. Any proprietary information should be marked as such. All respondents are asked to certify the type and size of their business organization is in-line with the requirements of this Sources Sought Notice, and must be received no later than 7 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590, United States
- Zip Code: 20590
- Zip Code: 20590
- Record
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