SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN CHILD-RELEVANT EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS
- Notice Date
- 8/5/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-02R000233
- Response Due
- 8/20/2002
- Point of Contact
- Chris Ganey, Contract Specialist, Phone 301-443-4379, Fax 301-443-3849, - Janet Miller, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-443-2478, Fax 301-443-3849,
- E-Mail Address
-
cganey2@psc.gov, jmiller@psc.gov
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (DHHS), through the Program Support Center, intends to negotiate a sole-source award with Cochrane Child Health Field, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada. Purpose: Contractor shall conduct research and develop a report examining the methodological issues in child-relevant systematic reviews. The mission of the Cochrane Child Health Field is to ensure that children (birth-18 years) receive health services that are effective and based on up-to-date evidence. To achieve this mission, the field facilitates the identification, organization, dissemination and use of current and future knowledge about effective health care for children. In response to concerns about methodological issues in evidence reviews that may be related to children, the Cochrane Child Health Field International Advisory Group is concerned about the attitude taken by some (both within and outside of the Cochrane hierarchy) that there is no need to perform separate child health reviews and that there also is a bias against analysis of children as a subgroup. This may rest on an assumption that there is not much difference between children and adults and that mixed or adult studies can be safely generalized to children. AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Centers, including those that conduct evidence syntheses for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, have raised the same issues about including children in their evidence reports and conducting separate analyses for children. This clearly is not the case for neonates, but we also think it is not likely to be the case for children. The Child Health Field will look at this assumption from several viewpoints: 1) an examination of the empirical evidence that effect sizes are different for children by looking at subgroup analyses and separate reviews; 2) an examination of the implications of subgroup analyses when these are not a priori questions. AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Centers program and its U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Program, will benefit immensely from these analyses. THE PROPOSED SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION ACTION IS FOR SUPPLIES OR SERVICES FOR WHICH THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO SOLICIT AND NEGOTIATE WITH ONLY ONE SOURCE UNDER AUTHORITY OF FAR 6.302. INTERESTED PERSONS MAY IDENTIFY THEIR INTEREST AND CAPABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE REQUIREMENT OR SUBMIT PROPOSALS WITHIN 7 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. A DETERMINATION BY THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO COMPETE THIS PROPOSED SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION BASED UPON RESPONSES TO THIS NOTICE IS SOLELY WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE GOVERNMENT. INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL NORMALLY BE CONSIDERED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER TO CONDUCT A COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT.
- Record
- SN00132282-W 20020807/020805213256 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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