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99 -- ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER INITIATIVE POC Lucille Fussell-Lee, Contract Specialists (410) 786-5447 The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) intends to award on a competitive basis, under the Simplified Acquisition Procedure a pilot translation project designed to translate selected English Medicare publications into Chinese. The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Initiative, launched in June 1997 by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), identified and addressed the disparities in access to the health and human services and in health status for AAPI communities. HCFA recognizes and is responsible to these critical disparities among the AAPI communities, one effective base level intervention to address these disparities is a pilot project to translate and disseminate easy-to-understand and accurate Medicare information into Chinese, the largest of the AAPI language. It is mandatory that the contractor have (1) experience in operating programs in health and/or related areas targeting limited English speaking Chinese/Asian American elderly, (2) experience in and capacity to translate complex health care related material into Chinese, (3) experience in working within community agencies which focus on limitied English speaking Chinese/Asian American elderly, and (4) experience working with government agencies on projects or contract management. A Request-for-Quote (RFQ) will be issued. Requests for all offerors may be faxed to (410) 786-9088 at the attention of Lucille Fussell-Lee or E-mail at LFusselllee@hcfa.gov. Posted 03/03/99 (I-SN304116). (0062)

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