SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- PEB Essence Training Support Services for NSSP
- Notice Date
- 2/4/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- 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
- 2016-N-17746
- Archive Date
- 3/5/2016
- Point of Contact
- Timothy Williams, Phone: 7704882791
- E-Mail Address
-
TLWilliams3@cdc.gov
(TLWilliams3@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services, (CSELS), Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance (DHIS), Surveillance and Data Branch (SDB), and Partnerships and Evaluation Branch (PEB) intends to award a sole source firm-fixed price services contract to John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. This contract will be for 12-months from time of award. The statutory authority for this sole source acquisition is 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c) (1) in accordance with FAR Part 6.302-1- Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirement. The NAICS Code for this procurement is 541712. The Size Standard is 500 employees. The Government is seeking contractor support to develop and deliver training courses and end-user documentation tools for the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) in support of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP). The NSSP promotes and advances development of a syndromic surveillance system for the timely exchange of syndromic data. These data are used to improve nationwide situational awareness and enhance responsiveness to hazardous events and disease outbreaks to protect America's health, safety, and security. NSSP functions through collaboration among individuals and organizations at local, state, and federal levels of public health; federal agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); public health partner organizations; and hospitals and health professionals. The NSSP includes two components: 1) a Community of Practice in which participants collaborate to advance the science and practice of syndromic surveillance; and 2) the cloud-based BioSense Platform, a secure integrated electronic health information system with standardized analytic tools and processes. These tools enable users to rapidly collect, evaluate, share, and store syndromic surveillance data. By using the BioSense Platform, health officials can analyze syndromic data to improve their common awareness of health threats over time and across regional boundaries. The BioSense Platform provides health departments a common electronic platform for collecting, storing, and sharing syndromic surveillance data. Understanding and addressing the needs of the public health community who contribute data to the BioSense Platform is critical to NSSP's success. Feedback from users has pointed to limited functionality and capability as issues in the current BioSense 2.0 web application available on the BioSense Platform. User surveys conducted by stakeholder groups in 2012 and 2013 found that users need a more comprehensive syndromic surveillance system with additional analytical tools than what is currently provided in the BioSense 2.0 web application. Based upon the user survey results, CDC business requirements, and a 2015 user pilot study and evaluation of available systems and analytic tools, ESSENCE was identified as the primary syndromic surveillance system to replace the current BioSense 2.0 web application on the BioSense Platform. ESSENCE is a web-based syndromic surveillance system designed for the early detection of disease outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, and public health emergencies. ESSENCE collects, processes, and analyzes non-traditional data sources (i.e. chief complaints from hospital emergency departments, poison control center calls, over-the-counter pharmaceutical sales, etc.) to identify anomalous disease activity in a community. The data can be queried, analyzed, and visualized both temporally and spatially by the end user. The ESSENCE integration, including alpha and beta testing, into the BioSense Platform will be completed May, 2016. Beginning June, 2016, CDC expects to transition nine jurisdictions per month from BioSense 2.0 into ESSENCE. CDC's goal is to fully transition all fifty-four (54) NSSP participating jurisdictions into ESSENCE and discontinue the use of the BioSense 2.0 web application by the end of December, 2016. This transition will meet users' needs and will help CDC to improve data quality, efficiency, and usefulness of the data collected as part of the NSSP. In support of this transition, CDC has identified a need to procure contractor services to provide training to jurisdictions on the version of ESSENCE that will be available on the BioSense Platform. Feedback from jurisdictions who participated in the pilot study and evaluation indicated that those who self-identified as novice or intermediate ESSENCE users had difficulty understanding how to perform many of the required tasks such as creating and editing queries and creating bookmarks. Jurisdictions also reported the end-user documentation tools within the ESSENCE software application were outdated and not helpful. John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is the sole developer of ESSSENCE and is the only vendor who can develop the system per their license agreement. Therefore, in order to have this work integrated with our installation of ESSENCE on the BioSense Platform, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is the only source for continued development of the specialized system and the training of users. No solicitation will be posted to FedBizOpps. We will only issue a solicitation to John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is the only source available to provide this service that meets mission critical requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for proposal. A determination to compete this procurement based on response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. Interested parties who believe they possess the capability to satisfy this requirement should submit a capability statement demonstrating their ability to meet this requirement. All responses must be sent in writing to Mr. Tim Williams via email to TLWilliams3@cdc.gov using solicitation number 2016-N-17746 in the subject line, no later than 12:00pm Eastern Time, February 19, 2016.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services, Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329, Atlanta, Georgia, 30329, United States
- Zip Code: 30329
- Zip Code: 30329
- Record
- SN04010002-W 20160206/160204234907-d8ec1a7be154615fbc31483e13083a6e (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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