Directorate of Contracting, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rm A1040c, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda MD 20814-4799

Q -- RESEARCH ASSISTANT SOL MDA905-00-Q-0082 DUE 082300 POC Christina Johnson, 301-295-3069 or fax 301-295-1716 E-MAIL: Point of contact, cjohnson@usuhs.mil. The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the Department of Defense's medical school and health sciences university, is in need of a Senior Research Associate to serve as a Medical Education Consultant for the Family Competency Project. The Senior Research Associate will work on a temporary part-time (20 hours per week) basis for one year (12 months) period beginning on or about 1 September 2000. This notice is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items, prepared in accordance with the format in FAR subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation, quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through FAC 97-19. This non-personal service contract will require the completion specific tasks. This notice is being used as request for quotes for: Clin 0001) Research Associate. Qty: 1040 hours. This project involves patients and parents in writing competencies for medical education, developing activities to teach those competencies, and implementing and evaluating the activities across the medical school curriculum. The project includes research necessary to support the development and teaching of patient -and family -- generated competencies for medical education. The Research Associate must possess the following qualifications: excellent communication and listening skills, both on the telephone and in person; be able to write and edit memos, letters, reports and articles; have experience designing and implementing research activities, including convening focus groups, interviewing patients and families, recruiting patients and families, participating in the development of surveys, writing reports to summarize focus groups and other activities, and participating in the design of research and evaluation activities; have organizational skills necessary to plan and convene meetings and discussion groups; have a PhD in a health-related field, education or psychology. The Research Associate will have the following responsibilities: coordinating a group of adult patients who participate in project activities. This includes recruiting adult patients, orienting them to the project, and establishing and maintaining a database in Microsoft Access; convening focus groups of adult patients. This includes inviting patients, scheduling dates and rooms, planning meetings in consultation with the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), and facilitating focus group discussions, and writing reports summarizing the focus groups; establishing a home visit program in which adult patients host medical students. This includes recruiting patients to host visits, adapting home visit materials for parents to visits with adult patients, orienting new adult patients to hosting home visits, and preparing veteran home visit hosts to orient new adult patients; attending a two?day meeting at USUHS in October or November 2000, and facilitating the involvement of adult patients in that meeting, to provide insight about involving patients and family members with physicians and other health care providers in learning activities and dialog about the doctor/patient relationship; developing learning activities with adult patients and presenting them as opportunities to medical students in the internal medicine, surgery or other student interest groups; providing logistic and administrative support for focus groups and other meetings; developing a repertoire of skills that can be used to offer research electives to medical students; editing, analyzing and writing papers and reports; attending project planning meetings at USUHS at least weekly; orienting patients and families to project activities by phone and in person; holding focus groups to write scenarios to use in research on how physicians promote resilience, and formatting these scenarios for a pilot research study; scoring resilience scenarios for a pilot research study on how physicians promote resilience; providing consultation on research design and data analysis for a pilot research study on how physicians promote resilience. The Research Associate will be provided the following by the Government to assist in the accomplishment of the work: topics for focus groups; access at USUHS to a phone, computer, Microsoft Office software, postage, copying and office supplies; a preliminary group of at least 15 adult patient advisors; materials and procedures used in the home visit program in which parents and children host visits; meeting space; the format for resilience scenarios. This acquisition incorporates the following FAR clauses: 52.212-1, "Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items (OCT 95); 52.212-2, "Evaluation-Commercial Items". The following evaluation criteria are included in paragraph (a) of the provision. Addendum to FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation factors for award: Any resulting order will be issued to the company offering the best value to the Government, price and other factors considered. Factors that will be considered are (i) technical capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirement (professional experience, academic and professional training; (ii) price; (iii) past performance (references). Failure to provide the information relative to each evaluation factor may render offer non-responsive. 52.212-3, "Offeror Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items (Oct 95) must be completed and submitted along with a Resume. In accordance with FAR 52.212-5, "Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items (Aug 96), the following clauses are incorporated by reference in paragraph (b): 52.222-26, "Equal Opportunity"; 52.222-35, "Affirmative Action for Special Disabled Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222-37, "Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; 52.222-36, "Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; 52.212-4, "Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Item; 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer-Central Contractor Registration; 52.237-7, "Indemnification and Medical Liability Insurance. All responsible sources shall submit a resume and three references including contact information. Applicants are also requested to provide their full mailing address (fax, telephone, and/or e-mail address if applicable). Request for Quotation may be mailed to USUHS, Attn: Christina Johnson, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799, by telephone 301-295-3069 or via fax at 301-295-1716. A copy of the statement of work will be available upon request by calling Christina Johnson at 301-295-3069. It is estimated that the closing date for this solicitation will be August 23, at 4:00 p.m. local time. All requests should be made prior to this time. All prospective offerors are cautioned that if selected for award, they must be registered with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Program. The CCR can be reached by calling 1-888-227-2423 or via the internet at http://www.ccr2000.com. Posted 08/14/00 (W-SN485682). (0227)

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