Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, Parklawn Building, Room 15C-17, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, Attn: Mary Ann Deal, Contract Specialist

R -- NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK SOL CMHS-OFC-95-0013 DUE 052695 POC Point of Contact - Mary Ann Deal, Contract Specialist, 301/443-0043, Contracting Officer - Beatrice L. Woods, 301/443-0043 The Center for Mental Health Services is soliciting proposals on a competitive basis from qualified small business organizations to award a 36 month, cost-reimbursement, level of effort type contract, with 2 twelve (12) month options, to develop and implement a national knowledge exchange network for the Center for Mental Health Services. The Center's mission is to bring new hope to those who live with a serious mental or emotional disorder by leading Federal efforts to treat mental illness, promote mental health and prevent the development or worsening of mental illness when possible. The Center is a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The Contractor shall be required to: 1) develop and maintain a database and network to facilitate the dissemination of information and the exchange of knowledge; 2) develop a system to respond to telephone and written inquiries efficiently, appropriately and accurately; 3) develop and disseminate resource materials to the public and professionals in an effort to reduce stigma and empower people to identify mental health problems, seek early and appropriate treatment and rehabilitation services, and participate more effectively in the changing health care delivery system; and 4) manage a storage, inventory and distribution system for the assortment of information that CMHS grantees produce regarding treatment and support services for a broad range of constituencies. Estimated issuance date of RFP CMHS-OCF-95-0013 is April 26, 1995 and responses are due to be received in the Contracting Office 30 calendar days thereafter. The solicitation may be obtained in either of two ways; electronically by downloading a file from the SAMHSA Bulletin Board System (BBS) at 1 (800) 424-2294 or by mail. To download from the BBS, you should set your communications program at 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and parity at none (8-1-none). SAMHSA's modems will communcate at 1200 to 9600 BPS and can negotiate with higher speed modems. If your modem is slower than 1200 BPS, you wil not be able to use this BBS. Our software can use several common transfer protocols, We recommend Zmodem if it is available in your communications program; however any of those listed on the BBS should prove satisfactory. Large files will be posted as self extracting compressed files to save time during the transfer. Hardware compression features in the modems will be relied upon to provide compresion for smaller files. Upon reading the file electronically downloaded you should determine if you have a continuing interest in the RFP. If so, you must either write the individual identified below that you wish copies of amendments to the RFP (if any) sent to you by mail or check the BBS regularly for amendments which will also be posted there and can be downloaded electronically. You may choose either method for obtaining amendments. Note, however, that if you rely on the BBS for obtaining amendments, at this time we have no way to assure, and will therefore assume no responsibility for assuring, you have downloaded these amendments. Requests for copies of the RFP to be mailed must be made in writing and will be honered if received within twenty calendar days after issuance of the solicitation. Requests received after this period will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis until the supply is exhausted; however, there is no assurance that copies requested after the twentieth day will reach the requestor before the due date for receipt of responses. Requests shall be forwarded to the attention of Mary Ann Deal, Contracts Specialist, Contracts Management Unit, Center for Mental Health Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn Building, Room 15C-17, Rockville, Maryland 20857. Telephone requests will not be honored. Note: Proposed acquisition is a 100 percent set-aside for small business concerns whose average annual receipts of the concern and its affiliates for its preceding three fiscal years must not exceed $18,000,000. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this acquisition is 7375. (0095)

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